Headliner Help Needed ASAP
Headliner Help Needed ASAP Ok so I pulled my headliner, peeled off the sagging stock fabric and sanded off the foam padding. But after I got most of the glue off and the foam removed I noticed how unsmooth and wrinkled the factory cardboard (or whatever it is) backing material is.
So do you guys just put the new fabric over it and simply cover up the wrinkles? I'm using seude that has no backing on it and am having second thoughts about it now that I see how rough the backing is. Or are you getting some thick fabric, glueing that down and then glueing the seude on top the the thick fabric???
I'm stuck at this point and am unsure what to do.
Please give me some help soon, I'd like to get this project almost finished up today
Thanks in advance
So do you guys just put the new fabric over it and simply cover up the wrinkles? I'm using seude that has no backing on it and am having second thoughts about it now that I see how rough the backing is. Or are you getting some thick fabric, glueing that down and then glueing the seude on top the the thick fabric???
I'm stuck at this point and am unsure what to do.
Please give me some help soon, I'd like to get this project almost finished up today
Thanks in advance
The old fabric was shot and sagging really bad and the foam was in pretty bad shape so I sanded that off.
I'll have to look around town and see what people have otherwise I guess I'll just have to wait
**** nothing is ever as easy as you think its going to be
I'll have to look around town and see what people have otherwise I guess I'll just have to wait
**** nothing is ever as easy as you think its going to be
Ok problem possibly solved, my dad has some leftover headliner material that has the foam backing so I'm going to recover my headliner with the new stuff and then glue on my seude. Hopefully that will work, or else I will have to figure out something else
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Hey:
Here is what I did when mine started hanging down.
I redone mine in thick heavy leather, but I fiberglassed over the old headliner after i removed the old material and foam.
This way the fiberglass had something to adhere to. Don't put to many layers of fiberglass cloth on it or when you go to reinstall it back in it won't flex enough to get in. After the the fiberglass cloth/resin dried hard and was cured, I test fitted the leather, trimmed it so i had a bout 3 inches all around to fold over. I then sprayed 3m super adhesive on it real good, and fitted the leather to it. I then took a roller and pushed the leather flat all around,. I then 3m super added the roof and put dynamat and heat shield up there, then reinstalled the leather headliner. My car is now quieter and cooler all summer.
Hope this helps.
Dub
Here is what I did when mine started hanging down.
I redone mine in thick heavy leather, but I fiberglassed over the old headliner after i removed the old material and foam.
This way the fiberglass had something to adhere to. Don't put to many layers of fiberglass cloth on it or when you go to reinstall it back in it won't flex enough to get in. After the the fiberglass cloth/resin dried hard and was cured, I test fitted the leather, trimmed it so i had a bout 3 inches all around to fold over. I then sprayed 3m super adhesive on it real good, and fitted the leather to it. I then took a roller and pushed the leather flat all around,. I then 3m super added the roof and put dynamat and heat shield up there, then reinstalled the leather headliner. My car is now quieter and cooler all summer.
Hope this helps.
Dub
