Old Sagging Headliner - Re-done by me in Leather...must see.

[Dave M]

Looks like a great job. This may be your first archived post

Dave M

[bad_manners_god]

Hey guys, about a week ago I was fed up of the sagging headliner and it's sh*tty color. So I took the weekend and went to some fabric stores and found some leather with a textured backing for easy molding onto the panels.

Here is what the material looks like:

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While I was doing the headliner, I noticed that the Pillars werent going to match, so I took those out along with the headliner.

Called some friends at PPM and ordered 5 Bottle's of Super-Adhesive all purpose spray glue. I got to work taking off the old material and prepping the panels.

This is what the old material looked like in comparison with the new material:

http://usera.imagecave.com/badmannersgod/DSC00364.JPG

I finally finished today, and took some pictures with my phone before I left the garage, I'm rather pleased with the results, not to mention, it's my first time working with material all together. Only Thing in the headliner I didn't do was the dual sunroof's but that's going to take more patience since I can't take those out of the car.

Here are the finished pics. Will get some more after finished installing.

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[attack eagle]

beautiful...
feel free to do mine.

on hte duals, you probably won't be able to use the same material unless it is less than 1/8th" thick. anymore than that and you will have a lot of drag on the moving parts and could incur problems.

[bad_manners_god]

beautiful...
feel free to do mine.

on hte duals, you probably won't be able to use the same material unless it is less than 1/8th" thick. anymore than that and you will have a lot of drag on the moving parts and could incur problems.

Thats part of the reason I didn't do the Dual Roofs yet, the other reason if I ran out of material....for them. Lol.

[attack eagle]

didthe material have a name etc on the roll?

if so would you kindly post it when you get more or are there again?

that looks the cat's meow.
I think you should be able to remove the duals if the roof will open. front one slides forward after releasing the little spring latch on each side.

[bad_manners_god]

didthe material have a name etc on the roll?

if so would you kindly post it when you get more or are there again?

that looks the cat's meow.

I bought the material for $8 CDN a square Meter, So I got 3 meters. I have a bit left over but I was able to do all the over-head panels, side pillars except for the seat-belts pillars up front which I'll do when I release the seat belt bolt on the seat.

Material didn't have a name on it. I'll pass by there again and look for a thiner leather-looking material for the duals and see if the roll had a name or code on it.

[///Sniper535]

I would like to redo mine, but with suede or something rare.

Was it difficult to remove, redo material and reinstall?

[attack eagle]

sedans are probably harder as they are one HUGE piece. tourings are many (but more manageable) pieces.

rvae34 on bf.c did his sedan in black suede a while back

[bad_manners_god]

I would like to redo mine, but with suede or something rare.

Was it difficult to remove, redo material and reinstall?

Not really, probably easier on touring even though there's more panels, but there's more room to move.

You need to remove the screws behind the handle's and cost hanger's.
Also, need to remove the courtesy lights and disconnect the wires and release the side moldings for easier removal. Not sure if there's anything else on the sedan.

The reason I choose leather was because other carpet looking materials will abosorb the glue and soak through the material. Also, if the glue gets on the leather, it's easy removable.

Redoing the material wasn't too hard, I started with the smaller pieces to get the hang of it and not waste any material if I messed up. A couple tips: Cut the material about an inch longer in every way and either commit a couple days to drive around without a headliner.

I'm in the process of reinstallation, hasnt been difficult yet, but I still have the front panel to do.

[attack eagle]

take an hot awl or spike and punch thru each screw hole before reinstalling it so you don't have to fight to find em.