22 to have facing tabs 28 positioned therein a saddle 22 having a generally u shape and a leaf spring 23 the inwardly facing tabs 24 of housing 21 holds the saddle 22 and leaf spring 23 in housing 21 thereby locking the leaf spring sun visor detent assembly 20 together as a unit referring to fig5 there is presented a plan end view section of the preferred embodiment of the leaf spring sun visor detent assembly shown in fig3 and 4 the inwardly facing tabs 25 hold the saddle 22 and the leaf spring 23 in position such that when a sun visor rod 30 having a flat face 31 is inserted into the leaf spring sun visor detent assembly 20 the spring 23 pushes against saddle 22 which in turn pushes against said rod 30 creating sufficient tension to maintain the position of the sun visor in this figure the sun visor is positioned in a non storage position and the leaf spring sun visor detent assembly is applying pressure against a curved section of the sun visor rod 30 thereby holding the sun visor in a user selected position and now referring to fig6 there is presented a plan end view section of the preferred.