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[glang99]

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[glang99]

The headliner has always bugged the hell out of me since i bought the car, and since i am prolonging doing my clutch this should keep me busy for a little bit. Here’s some photos of the yucky headliner.

Lets start with dismantling the interior.

Now that we got the headliner out it’s time to prep the headliner for the new fabric. We’ll start by peeling off the old fabric, then you’ll be left with the foam backing. In order to remove all of the old foam i used a drill and a wire brush, definitely not the most gentle way to do it but if you aren’t a barbarian it should work out.

Headliner is prepped, she’s all clean and ready for glue. Definitely lacked on photos for the fabric install, but for glue i used 3m headliner adhesive and did a few coats. Then once it became tacky i laid down the new fabric and slowly pushed it down and made sure it held. Once it was stuck on pretty well i had the excess material and glued it to the back side of the headliner to hopefully prevent future sag.

It turned out fairly well, a little unhappy with the slight crease by the sun roof switch (waiting until it cures to cut it out) but all and all im happy with it. Going to wrap the sun visors and sun roof shield today and hopefully reinstall everything if i have enough time. Photos coming soon

 

[Pjj]

how close is the fabric colour you got to the factory one?

 

[glang99]

how close is the fabric colour you got to the factory one?

Not very close, i was having trouble finding an exact match with a foam backing

 

[glang99]

The headliner has always bugged the hell out of me since i bought the car, and since i am prolonging doing my clutch this should keep me busy for a little bit. Here’s some photos of the yucky headliner.

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Lets start with dismantling the interior.


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Now that we got the headliner out it’s time to prep the headliner for the new fabric. We’ll start by peeling off the old fabric, then you’ll be left with the foam backing. In order to remove all of the old foam i used a drill and a wire brush, definitely not the most gentle way to do it but if you aren’t a barbarian it should work out.

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Headliner is prepped, she’s all clean and ready for glue. Definitely lacked on photos for the fabric install, but for glue i used 3m headliner adhesive and did a few coats. Then once it became tacky i laid down the new fabric and slowly pushed it down and made sure it held. Once it was stuck on pretty well i had the excess material and glued it to the back side of the headliner to hopefully prevent future sag.

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It turned out fairly well, a little unhappy with the slight crease by the sun roof switch (waiting until it cures to cut it out) but all and all im happy with it. Going to wrap the sun visors and sun roof shield today and hopefully reinstall everything if i have enough time. Photos coming soon

Finally finished everything up, the sun visors we’re definitely the worst part of this job but it was manageable with enough cuss words. Here is some before and afters of the sunroof shade.

The shades were the easiest part since they were flat and only had straight cuts. Here is some before and afters of the sun visors. They aren’t great but they’re not horrible. Also ended up zip tieing them closed since I couldn’t get them to seat perfectly with the foam padding.

They look really odd without the airbag stickers so i was able to find some off of amazon, haven’t gotten them yet but im hoping they’ll take away the cheap look.

Also had the tab break off of the trim around the sun roof switch and here is the booger fix that surprisingly worked. If anyone has one laying around i’ll take it because this will keep me awake at night.

Here is the final product.

Color is definitely far off from oem but i think it still gives the oem look. Onto the next project.