So my headliner failed and I had to replace it. That meant removing the entire headliner from the car. The hardest part was getting the sun visors disconnected and unplugged. That took some patience and elbow grease. The rest was fairly easy - removing the handles and the wagon lighting. Then pulling back the plastic molding/framing very patiently so as not to break anything. 20 year old plastic can be very fragile.

I didn't want to just replace gray with gray, so I shopped around for something unique. That meant searching for upholstery fabric that was wide enough to cover the entire headliner (54+"). I wanted an aloha theme but most fabric was either too flowery or very expensive. So, I found some good fabric (thin, but durable) that has a jaguar print.

After removing the headliner, I used a steel tooth brush to clean off the failing foam - that's what causes the headliner to fail. I scrubbed the hell out of it and used my shop vac to make sure it was clean. Then it was 3M adhesive sprayed all over the headliner and the fabric. Let it set for a few minutes until it's tacky and then get started applying the fabric to the headliner. It takes quick work and some adjusting and respraying in areas. Like the indentations near the door handle grips, the center ceiling light area, the corners, etc. And it also took some work rubbing out creases in other areas (you can see a couple in the final picture that I have since worked out).

Getting the headliner back in wasn't that hard - again, the sun visors were the difficult ones.

It really wasn't that hard of a job and I'm pretty happy with the job. Hopefully it will last - summer is over in FL so the extreme heat is gone for a few months - not sure if that will have an impact next year.

 

That looks awesome! Nice work

 

nice post. Curious about your trick to remove the sun visors... I have one on drivers side which doesn't like to stay up top...