BMW Helmet sun visor problem
 

I've a BMW helmet bought new a couple of years ago. After a bit of banging
while it was on my head against various roadways, the slide that lowers, and raises the sun visor is totally disconnected and slides up and down freely with no effect on the sun visor.

I peeled off the padding inside the helmet and found a couple of weird screws that have a weirder type slot that require some kind of tool to access the mechanism that connects the slide to the sun visor.

Here I am stopped and need suggestions as to what tool is needed or if I can fix the problem in some way. I am in Guayaquil with no BMW moto agency listed. Headed for Peru soon.

thanks for any help. xfiltrate

Sorry to hear of your woes.

Unfortunately, BMW's riding gear is like there bikes. Poor quality with a shiny badge on it.

BMW helmets are TERRIBLE. When I was working at my last BMW dealer, I think 50% of them were returned for faults on warranty. They have the same quality as £80-£90 helmets.

I suggest you either throw it away and buy a replacement for $100.


If that's not an option, maybe consider fixing the visor permanently in place with self tapping screws, strong glue etc.

Could you perhaps remove the visor altogether and use MX goggles and a face scarf ??

dohself tapping screws... pointing towards your brain :eek3: sheesh!!! that's all you need in a helmet impact!
You're not coming anywhere near my brain Ted!

Well, I'd not suggest using 6" screws...

Many helmets have self tapping screws in their mechanisms.

And if you're buying BMW branded gear then a little brain tapping is probably required anyway :innocent:

:smartass:

The Hell of Helmets...
 

thanks Ted et al... I found an actual, vetted BMW agency in Guayaquil, and when I showed up with the erstwhile BMW helmet in hand, I was greeted by one of many armed security guards who shuffled me off to the back "service" entrance. There was a iron fence surrounding the agency and I was only able to glimpse a BMW moto through the distant glass of the show window.

So much for a warm welcome? Anyway, after standing for at least a half hour in front of the "parts counter" with no one in attendance I was finally greeted by a very nervous young woman, strolling by, who seemed very pleased that I spoke spanish. After explaining that I was not a swishy BMW automobile owner and had only a damaged BMW helmet as my bona fides - not much of a credential to be in such an elite establishment, and she asked what I did drive, I was now being interrogated, so I jumped to my own defense and proclaimed I drive an NX400. This seemed to satisfy her for she pointed me to a waiting area and a row of steel backed chairs all lined up and welded together in front of a big screen TV playing an ancient rerun of Friends.

after another half hour a bundle of smiling energy came forth and asked me to explain the problem I have with my BMW helmet. After a brief demo of the stuck sun visor, he asked for the helmet and disappeared with my helmet in his hand.

Later, maybe 20 minutes later, he reappeared with the helmet that now had an unhinged sun visor on one side and a still stuck sun visor on the other side with the pronouncement that the mechanism that controls the sun visor was broken and no spare parts were available in the whole of Ecuador.

I asked how he had managed to un stick half of the sun visor and he went into a defensive mode and explained that he had done nothing. And that this BMW agency does not service helmets.

So with my BMW helmet tucked between my legs, I hobbled it back to my hotel, and decided to continue on to Peru using my tinted dust glasses and the clear visor that was still in tack and working. I will jam the errant sun visor up and out of the way and stick it with a dab of super glue to keep it from dropping half was down at an inopportune moment.

I wear contact lens and the BMW helmet has a great fit around the neck and chin and while riding, if a contact pops out I can generally recover it lodged between my chin and the helmet. If I can find another helmet with a sun visor and this apparently unique feature of catching contact lens, I will buy it.

Thanks again, and may you never have to endure the hell of helmets like I have.

xfiltrate eat drink and may your sun visors never fail...