05-21-2009
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Pewp Champion
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blaine
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Project: New Headliner
My headliner has been in shambles since I've owned this car. Right where it meets the rear hatch, it was falling down to the point of blocking my view from the rear view mirror. For the last few years, my answer to that was stick somewhere around 30 flush thumb tacks all over to keep it up and out of my way.
Well I'm sick of that. Today I took the interior apart a little and got the headliner off. Too bad I didn't take any before pictures. I think something was living up there at one time because tons of bird seed was up there.
So, got the headliner off. Threw it out in the yard and started tearing off the old fabric. Once I got that off, there was still some kind of foamy/glue crap all over. I used my angle grinder and a sanding pad and lightly went over everything to get as much off as I could without destroying the mold.
Went to JoAnne's Fabric and got a large piece of Felt that is appx 6' x 6'. More then enough for the headliner. I'm hoping to use the leftovers to do the sun visors, and possibly the door inserts.
Brought it home and layed it on the headliner mold and I think I will have plenty left over! Cut out around the headliner, leaving a lot of extra on the ends because I can always cut more off, but can never put more back on.
I'm going to keep a running tab on how much this project is costing in the end, so those of you who also have horseshit headliners can see just how cheap/easy this is, and maybe motivate others to do it as well!!
(1) 6' x 6' sheet of felt = $9.29
(1) 11 oz. can of Loctite High Performance Spray Adhesive = $6.92
TOTAL = $16.21
Last edited by Halon; 05-22-2009 at 04:39 PM..
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05-21-2009
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is Nashty
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Stillwater
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Lookin good! I still have that visor if you want it.
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05-21-2009
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N17r0U$ br4D
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Re: Project: New Headliner
3M's Super 77 is great stuff to use to put the actual fabric on the head liner.
Good luck with the project, seems like you already know what you're doing though!
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05-21-2009
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Sweet deal! Did you go with grey or is it black? What are you using to glue it on?
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05-21-2009
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: edward lake
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Re: Project: New Headliner
very nice
I have grey suede for mine when I get around to do it. we got enuff for the armrest,shift boot,rear deck (all done already) and for the headliner.
it was 25.00 for 2 and 1/3 yard's
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05-21-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Project: New Headliner
The color is kind of a grey black combo, kind of a smokey looking mixture of black and grey. Should go real well with the grey trim pieces I have now.
I was looking for Suede, but they didn't have any grey suede, and I didn't want black.
So this stuff looked pretty decent, and was cheap as hell.
Tomorrow I plan on hitting up Walmart or Lowe's or something and picking up some 3M spray on adhesive, and that is how I plan on gluing it to the mold. Then just quick do the visors and I should be set
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05-21-2009
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: lino lakes
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Nice!! I'm interested because I need to do this!
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05-22-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Picked up a can of adhesive from Lowe's. Added it to my list in the first post.
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05-22-2009
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Got the material on and is drying as is for the moment. In a half hour or so i'll go back and start trimming it up. I'm happy with it so far though
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05-22-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Visors are drying. I didn't bother putting the mirrors back in them.
Everything is just drying right now. Next thing I have to do is cut out the holes in the headliner where needed (ie: sunroof).
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05-22-2009
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cottage Grove
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Looks good! I need to do this to my car.
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05-22-2009
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formerly ecoli
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Me too.
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05-22-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Project: New Headliner
99% done. As you can see the clips are still on the sun visors. I'm going to leave those on overnight I think. So that's the 1% left, just let them dry some more.
What a difference!
If anyone else wants to do this, I think half of this can of adhesive is still left that you could just have.
Last edited by Halon; 05-22-2009 at 08:48 PM..
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05-22-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Also I'll mention I have quite a bit of the fabric left over. Probably enough to do maybe 6 more visors. So 6' x 6' is a good bit more then you need, but it's nice to have all that extra material so you aren't cutting it extremely close. You could get away with a 6' x 4' I'd bet.
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05-23-2009
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back in the saddle again
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Looks good!
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05-23-2009
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Crash Course Racing
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Very nice!
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05-23-2009
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: lino lakes
Drives: 98 GSX, 04 is300
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Re: Project: New Headliner
Well I know what project im gonna have to do this summer! looks good man
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05-23-2009
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It was a auto get over it
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Project: New Headliner
i did my headliner and all my interior panels when i got flooded. The store was out of suede so i got the next best thing fleece. Now it is a little thicker but over all looks really damn good. I dont hink there is a 1g out there that couldnt benifit from redoing their headliner. looks good
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05-23-2009
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Transmission destroyer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cambridge
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Re: Project: New Headliner
looks awesome man!! good job!
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