Smoking kills.......the head liner

[aboutime]

I bought my eclipse not long ago, and the car is still basically mint from 97' , all except one dam thing, the pervious owner was a smoker, and I have a tan interior, and just above the door on the drivers side the idiot burnt a hole in the head liner, its about the size of an eraser on a pencil, I want it gone or covered up or something, I guess everyone's first thought would be get a new headliner but it has a sun roof and I think messing with that might get me in more trouble, I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions, b/c I'm fresh out.

 

[JeffreyS]

On my 91 Talon, the headliner foam and glue was completely shot.

I took out the pressboard (or whatever you want to call it), picked up some fabric lining from joann fabrics locally, picked up some grey velour fabric for the liner itself and Elmers Extra Strength spray adhesive. Remove all the foam and old glue, glue on the new liner, let it dry completely, glue on the fabric, let it dry completely, make whatever cuts are needed (I have a sunroof) and re-install

Be patient, do it one step at a time, and it really comes out nice...

The whole recovering was ~$40 dollars, but looks pretty darned good now...

The only thing I could have done better would be to get new fasteners all the way around, some seemed quite brittle on the 11 year old beastie.

 

[Black95GST]

my head liner was crap when i boght the car but i want to have the head liner replaced by a professional about how much would it cost just close does any one know??????$$$

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

My headliner has also come down. right infront of the drivers side maybe from smoking and from 115 degrees melting the glue.

 

[Goblin]

The punk a$s that owned my GSX before me also burnt two holes in head liner and it pisses me off everytime I look up at it

To get to the point... My brother and I are redoing the interior of his Supra and we replaced the headliner with suede leather using the Elmers spray adhesive... a week of rain later (car is parked next to our shop not IN it because we have to work on other crap) the moisture build up has trashed the glue and it's adhesive properties are no more it now sags like like my grandmothers triceps in a tanktop...

Anyone know of an adhesive STRONGER than that Elmers spray on crap?

 

[93_GEE_ES_EX]

Originally posted by JeffreyS
On my 91 Talon, the headliner foam and glue was completely shot.

I took out the pressboard (or whatever you want to call it), picked up some fabric lining from joann fabrics locally, picked up some grey velour fabric for the liner itself and Elmers Extra Strength spray adhesive. Remove all the foam and old glue, glue on the new liner, let it dry completely, glue on the fabric, let it dry completely, make whatever cuts are needed (I have a sunroof) and re-install

Be patient, do it one step at a time, and it really comes out nice...

The whole recovering was ~$40 dollars, but looks pretty darned good now...

The only thing I could have done better would be to get new fasteners all the way around, some seemed quite brittle on the 11 year old beastie.

I went to my local junk yard and picked my close to brand new one for 15$.

 

[laserturbo91]

heh or you could do it my way, astro-turf. i used new fasteners and all, even used a hand full of zip ties to hold it to the board, knowing that most glues would not stick after a little

goodluck
jeff

ps heres my headliner http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=33686

 

[JeRmZ]

Wal-Mart sells a fabric repair kit, I believe it's maybe $10.00! It works pretty good, I used it on a CIG. burn in my back seat and you can't even tell it was there!

 

[RipperXX]

just take it to a re-apolstery shop (spelling i know) the local one here will do head liners for $35

 

[Goblin]

Originally posted by RipperXX
just take it to a re-apolstery shop (spelling i know) the local one here will do head liners for $35

Or maybe my brother and I will just do it for... oh I don't know... The cost of the adhesive and have enough left over to do other parts of the car!

You know what... Forget I asked I can see this isn't going to be any help and I don't want to wait around for someone to actually answer the simple question:

"Anyone know of an adhesive STRONGER than that Elmers spray on crap?"

 

[crazyjoe]

Dude, this isn't *your* thread....why do you expect people to come into it and answer *your* question? If you got a different question, start a new thread, don't get all angry about it.

I know lots of adhesives stronger than Elmer's Spray on Crap, but none of them will work with headliners.

Try google or something, or vfaq, or DSMTalk, they have a whole section devoted to appearance mods that has been going for a long time.

 

[Goblin]

since when does anyone own a thread? I'm not saying it's my thread nor am I even remotly angry. I just poped in an appropriate related thread to ask a quick question, I didn't get a quick answer so I said forget it.

We've already redone the headliner, projects don't stop and go based on internet forums. It was a casual question.

My only criticism was that it's annoying when you ask one specific question and you get a load of suggestions and opinions you didn't ask for nor did you want or answers to crap you didn't ask. Your post was an prime example of this.

AGAIN.

Just forget I asked as I've already REDONE the headliner with something that will no doubt NOT fail (shoegoo 2).

 

[Turbonium]

i bought 3m adhesive spray it seems to wrok pretty decent except it fell down again because the foam desintigrated because it's like 12 years old, but i'm pretty sure the glue is good, it's like 13 bucks a can though. well good luck
Ryan

 

[laserturbo91]

i had bought that 3m stuff too from home depot, but i tried it before i put the headliner back up, and like i thought it would, fell off easly

 

[16GTSI]

I have replaced my head liner just as others have by scraping all the old padding off and putting new fabric up there from joann fabric's. The glue i used was 3M spray adhesive. Hasnt come down yet and visual results are great. IT WASNT HARD TO DO, ANYONE THINKING ABOUT HAVING IT PROFESSIONALLY DONE SHOULD DO IT THENSELVES. (just my opinion)

 

[Chuckt]

after reading this, basically it seems like the best idea is to take off all the foam and glue the new headliner fabric directly to the hearboard itsself......

 

[DSMTurbos]

anybody ever tried painting the headliner? i just want a new color (tan to black) and thought that it might be easy to do

 

[blazin1320]

hey everyone i work for an upholstery shop and do about 5-6 headliners a day,eclipse's are one of the easiest to do.any reputable upholstery shop can handle a headliner they have the right tools and factory material or could easily install material of your prefrance,an eclipse headliner with sunroof runs about $60,the money is worth it...i have yet to find an aftermarket glue that holds up to the heat and moisture that upholstery grade glue..but now i know that autozone has headliner kits that run about the same price for the whole kit if you wanna do it your self,i suggest a pro do it 1)less headache for you 2) if they mess it up they fix it...hope the info helps.

 

[Knoob]

yah , same problem with my bro , i have not 1 but 4 burn holes on my headliner , like right about the driver side window , i am a smoker , but i watch my cigs , not just let them burn the hell out of shit....

not to mention slit in the headliner about the width of !!! <------ THAT , i guess he slit it with a knife or something.......