Headliner restoration

twack · 03-20-2008

My headliner was trash and im going for an all black interior so I decided to redo my headliner and my visors. After some persuasion I decided to repair my trashed headliner. I made patches out of dense cardboard held on by superglue, might be ugly but efficient.

twack · 03-20-2008

Installed and looking beautiful!

123abc · 03-20-2008

Looks pretty damn good.

**Halon** · 03-20-2008

Looks great. What do you mean when you said you made "patches" out of cardboard? Are the visors now completely cardboard? I need to do this to my car. I tried it once in the past with my 2G, but I failed horribly.

twack · 03-20-2008

well the head liner was snapped in many places, so i brought the two broken ends together and then super glued a piece of cardboard like a bandaid to hold the two sides together, then a thinner piece on the bottom side, turned out great but used 5 tubes of superglue on the cardboard. ya i pulled out the stock backing in the visors and put cardboard in there but there is still a strong plastic frame inside that.

**Halon** · 03-20-2008

Cool. Where'd you get the fabric, and what'd it run you?

Andrew7dg · 03-20-2008

I did the same think to my car and I remember using a napa product and it sucked, make sure you use 3M. Much better quality!

I found my fabric at Jo Anns fabric. Bunch of ladies looked at me weird when I said it was for my car but it looks hell nice!!!

sleepydsm · 03-20-2008

I used the headliner material from Jo-Anne fabrics (They have Black, Tan, and Grey). It cost me $20 for an oversize piece for the headliner. I bought Loctite Heavy Duty adhesive spray, rang up at $15 a can.

Jakey · 03-20-2008

What ever happened to the headliner guy in the Twin Cities that was always recommended on here and various other Twin Cities car sites? Was his name Jeff?

turbotalon1g · 03-20-2008

Nice, i need to do this also, then my interior will be completely black.

Good job.

**Halon** · 03-20-2008

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Originally Posted by Jakey

What ever happened to the headliner guy in the Twin Cities that was always recommended on here and various other Twin Cities car sites? Was his name Jeff?

That's the same guy I was going to have redo my front seat upholstery as well. His website is gone, I wonder if he's even still in business. I think his company was just called Jeff's Custom Upholstery.

twack · 03-20-2008

I used less ten $10 of black fleece from walmart and 3m super strong adhesive. All done for under $20

**Goat Blower** · 03-20-2008

I'm planning on doing this as well, just in suede like a Porsche. Nice work!

DSM_421 · 03-21-2008

Looks good!!!

I might do my side panels that match my ugly fuzzy seats. I like my grey roof and black interior combo though, plus there is no reason to redo a perfect headliner.

twack · 03-21-2008

Im doing some other interior work ill post later, and that includes all new door panels and possible kick panels to.

HiImBrian · 03-21-2008

I redid my tan headliner black but I never got around to finishing my visors. I just don't really know how. Could you do a little write-up on how you did them please? Also, my wrap that goes around my sunroof is tan and I want it black. Anybody have any recommendations on paint to use on something like that?

twack · 03-21-2008

http://www.dsmtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194051 write-up
id use paint on your sunroof rim