The sunshade (part number 90608551) is a great device for keeping sun and rain off the wind screen. I had this one on a Series 3 and it worked very well. As they are few and far between, I kept it when the Series 3 was sold.

Fitting the sunshade gave me the opportunity to try out my new riv nut tool. A riv nut is a threaded insert that allows a strong mechanical fix in a location where tapping a thread is not practical. It performs similar to a pop rivet and is basically a compression fit. You insert the riv nut, “squash it” with the tool and it leaves you with a threaded insert to screw a fixing into. If you’ve ever installed a bottle cage on a steel  or aluminium bicycle frame…. the threaded hole into which you screw the bottle cage fixing is a riveting nut.

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After some careful measuring…. holes were drilled and the inserts put in place
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Ready for squashing 
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Both inserts “squashed” into the original windscreen frame
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Sun shade painted to match the body colour
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Same on the drivers side
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Theres also a bracket on the centre post of the windscreen to keep things stable at “high speed” 😉
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Everything aligned (almost) perfectly. I’ve since replaced the passivated nuts and bolts and bolts with stainless fixings
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View for the inside. These really do make a difference and aid keeping rain, snow and sun off the windscreen.