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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:31:31 -0600
From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.com>
Subject: Re: How to replace a headliner?


I bought the spray glue from a building products store: Home Depot for about $10. It is probably cheaper there than in an auto parts store. Walt Kienzle 1991 9000T "Patrick Timlin" <ptimlinnopsamo.com> wrote in message news:c6ad2bc.0203080845.1b499c46nopsaming.google.com... > "Craig Roberts" ... > > Anybody know where I can find info on replacing headliners? > > The headliner of my '91 900S has totoally detatched itself. > > Craig, here is a repost of what I said on this same subject back on > Jan 8th of this year, if you are looking for alternate ideas that > is... > > [begin repost...] > > Drooping headliner is a VERY common problem. First off repair > solutions are not always the prettiest, so if your goal is to make it > look perfect, about your only solution is to replace the headliner. > > However if your goal is to simply get it off your head, you can try > regluing it. 3M makes a fabric adheasive you can often buy at auto > parts stores (at least here in the USA). It works ok, but is not > permanent, and you likely will get wrinkles and bumps in the > headliner. With my hatchback, it was fairly easy to do the back. Open > the hatch, pull down the rubber gasket along the top and then I could > aim the nozzle between the drooping headliner and spray on the yellow > insualtion. Then smooth as best you can the headliner back up against > the roof and replace rubber gasket. For the front, around my sun > visors, I cut slits in the headliner and inserted the nozzles in > there. Kind of ugly but it got it up and out of the way. > > But this only lasted about a year and the back started to come loose > again, so I sprayed it up again. Less than a year later is dropped > again, so just this past fall, I simply attacked it with the staple > gun (used the shorter staples). Worked great. Not exactly pretty, but > you don't really notice the staples unless you look up at them. It > does the job! > > Another fix I heard about were headliner screws (served the same > purpose as staples, which I read you could buy at NAPA auto parts, but > I was not able to locate them. > > And yet another involved getting long thin bars (thick wire really), > cutting to just fit when you insert one end under the gasket on one > side of the car and then the other end in the other side so it bows > upward. A few of these will hold most of the headliner up I guess. > Although staples are quicker and easier! <grin> > > Patrick > [... end repost]

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