recover headliner
jb2wheels
Wagonist
Any of you recover your headliner? How did you do it?
I have my wagon's interior gutted for deep cleaning - it's GROSS. The headliner's out, too. It has some holes and scrapes in the cargo area and I'd like to get it covered or do it myself.
Any tips? What did you cover it with? Did you try taking the original vinyl like stuff off?
Thanks!
I have my wagon's interior gutted for deep cleaning - it's GROSS. The headliner's out, too. It has some holes and scrapes in the cargo area and I'd like to get it covered or do it myself.
Any tips? What did you cover it with? Did you try taking the original vinyl like stuff off?
Thanks!
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anyway, call around. there are lots of guys who do this mobile, just like windshields. I took the board out, took it to work with me and this chick came to the shop and knocked it out in about 1/2hour.
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Is that cloth or vinyl? What'd you do, drop by Wal-Mart fabric shop and pick out something? Maybe a curtain fabric?
I love it! I'm inspired?
its cotton; i dropped by joanns fabric store, found some fabric i liked in the kids section... purchased it...
then went to HomeDepo and bought extra strength shit and followed
instructions; spray both sides of surfaces, let sit for couple minutes until
glue gets tacky.... spray the back of cloth- spray headliner... attach from
middle out- making sure not to get any air bubbles and wrinkles...
i had 3 people helping me...
I predict a lot of ribbing from this.
Those of us with kids will immediately understand, though. My daughter would freak. I'd be the best dad in the world every time she sat in the car.
And you did an amazing job around the chicken bars and the dome light. The picture isn't all that detailed, but the pattern looks straight and tight.
Great job!
Billboard, where did you find the steps for this?
Thanks - the picture hides some of the wrinkles. My girly girl loves it and brags to her friends but my teenage son hates it.
You are one courageous hombre!!!
However, I bet you are secretly thinking it's a good thing the headliner is not usually visible by other drivers and certainly not by pedestrians. LOL
note: only took us an hour, 2 people
we also did the seat fold down things from the sticky, just wanted to point out that if you don't like that particular style, any of the cabinet knobs with the similar narrow end would work
Are you guys attaching the cloth to the existing headliner foam, or are you removing the foam altogether and attaching the cloth to the bare metal?
True - no foam to remove - just glue it to the textured plastic that is our headliners.
Ive been thiking about it myself. We will see. I want to drill my roof holes for my roof rack first, and figure out my leaking problem. For those of you who did it, looks bad ass!
when i picked up the fabric the lady at the cutting counter said she had see this done back in the day on the old hot rods, guess that's where it originated.
if you are interested in changing the feel of your interior, this will definately do the trick, and it only cost me about $30 :twisted:
I wonder if I could remove that altogether, and just glue straight to the roof. Hmmm...
My wife sews so she kinda measured and let me know what I needed. At most fabric stores the sell it by the yard at either 60 inches wide or 45 inches wide. You should only need 3 yards at 45 inches wide to do the headliner, get an extra yard and that should cover anything else. Most fabrics hover around $8 a yard.