Talk about dreaded previous owner!! Man this is probably the worst thing we have seen yet! That is tar paper. And some wood grain plastic looking stuff. Bout 500 staples.
Face palm...
The pile of crap that came off! Sigh...It's a hard hat area or what? PO is killing me...
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Posts: 10938 From: Holland, MI Registered: Jun 2010
The Fiero Store upholstered headliner. Unless you do it yourself, by the time you have paid to get the headliner covered, that you have to buy , you can get The Fiero Store`s for a couple of hundred and be done.
Wow! I don't think you can even use duck tape to fix that one to use.
I know I saw a Fiberglass one on Ebay a month or two ago for $100 each. That is the original way I want to go and then cover that with a fabric or vinyl
We have 2 yards of black headliner material on the way. It's been shipped and should arrive any day. Courtesy of Russ88TTop here on PFF. Russ hooked us up with a suppleir. Koodos go out to him BIG time. I think the cost was like $8 a yard. Shipping was more. Probably gonna do a local search and see if we can find one. We have an 87 thats gonna need a new headliner as well so practice makes perfect I guess.
Might go out to the PO's house and kick him in the nutz later!
That board is fine. Go down to home depot and grab a can of fiberglass resin. The can has hardener under the plastic lid so you don't need to buy any
Flip the board so it's face down and line up the pieces. Take an old tshirt and cut it into 3" wide strips. Mix up your resin, apply a coat or two directly to the board, lay the tshirt strips over the cracks and breaks, and coat with resin. If your really want it to last you can cover the whole board in resin. It's extremely simple and only takes an hour or so
Fabric is even easier. Go get a yard of grey headliner from your local fabric store, some loctite spray adhesive ( IMO it sticks miles better than the 3M ) and just glue the whole thing straight on the board. Cut around the edges about 2" from and just fold it under when installing.
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Posts: 4442 From: Centralia,Missouri. USA Registered: Sep 2003
That board is fine. Go down to home depot and grab a can of fiberglass resin. The can has hardener under the plastic lid so you don't need to buy any
Flip the board so it's face down and line up the pieces. Take an old tshirt and cut it into 3" wide strips. Mix up your resin, apply a coat or two directly to the board, lay the tshirt strips over the cracks and breaks, and coat with resin. If your really want it to last you can cover the whole board in resin. It's extremely simple and only takes an hour or so
Fabric is even easier. Go get a yard of grey headliner from your local fabric store, some loctite spray adhesive ( IMO it sticks miles better than the 3M ) and just glue the whole thing straight on the board. Cut around the edges about 2" from and just fold it under when installing.
Beat me to it. That is about how the liner in my Indy came out. It was in three to four pieces. Fiberglassed the repairs to it from the back, then put a couple of coats of resin only on the front (cloth) side. Probably much stronger then it ever was from the factory by the time I was done. Playing around it took about three hours to fix. Cost was nothing as I had the resin and mat laying around the shop. Buying materials might run around 20 bucks.
New headliner material came in today! We ordered an extra yard. It was only $8.95 a yard plus $14 for shipping. We did not order adhesive as they had it priced at $10 IIRC. Merry X-mas to us they sent a can anyway! Dunno if it was a packing error or what but well take it. Now off to find a decent fiberglass board. Not really interested in tryin to repair the one we have if we dont have to. Also were gonna need the molding or what ever its called for around the sunroof.
The material looks real nice but Im worried it may have a purple-ish look. Ever see black that looks kinda purple? Well I think we may have that a bit. Will have to look at it under better lighting conditions. Maybe bright sunlight with indirect light exposure, as it would be seen installed?
Ho ho ho! TYVM Russ88TTop!!
Edit; this package came UPS. We were just outside looking at it when the USPS carrier was walking by and I asked him what color he thought it is. He paused, looked at it, and said, "blue, it looks blue". Oh well gonna roll with it anyway.
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Posts: 1792 From: Winston Salem, NC Registered: Jun 2010
That black will turn to purple. It wasn't a big deal in my non sunroof all black interior car, because it was dark inside the interior. But with the sunroof, you're going to notice it. I don't like that thick "headliner" material, it's heavy and doesn't stay up well with spray adhesive. The last couple I've recovered, I've just gone to my favorite fabric store, purchased some thin mil pad and suede or cloth to do the job. Held up much better, and to me, felt and looked better, "custom upholstery" feel rather than "replacement headliner".
All the headliner boards are falling apart these days. I've come across several put together like yours, no wood grain though. Classy.
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Posts: 1767 From: Third World Country, OR Registered: Oct 2009
That board is fine. Go down to home depot and grab a can of fiberglass resin. The can has hardener under the plastic lid so you don't need to buy any
Flip the board so it's face down and line up the pieces. Take an old tshirt and cut it into 3" wide strips. Mix up your resin, apply a coat or two directly to the board, lay the tshirt strips over the cracks and breaks, and coat with resin. If your really want it to last you can cover the whole board in resin. It's extremely simple and only takes an hour or so
Fabric is even easier. Go get a yard of grey headliner from your local fabric store, some loctite spray adhesive ( IMO it sticks miles better than the 3M ) and just glue the whole thing straight on the board. Cut around the edges about 2" from and just fold it under when installing.
Your suggestion is what I was thinking as I read this and saw the ugly mess. I did exactly what you suggested except I used fiberglass cloth (I wasn't smart enough to think of tee-shirts) and some thin cardboard from a beer box I found on my curb--the lady next door is a lush--and got 1.5 yards of headliner material on sale at Hancock Fabrics for $20 and I now have a great looking headliner for less than $35 including the material and fiberglass resin/fiberglass. I used some 3M contact cement spray I had on hand for another job. Been about a year and it still looks good.
Hancock Fabrics and Joann Fabrics both have websites and they often have headliner on sale.
Hancock Fabrics and Joann Fabrics both have websites and they often have headliner on sale.
Purchased my gray headliner from JoAnn Fabrics and it is about as close to a match as I could have hoped for; maybe 9.5 or of 10 match, but you have to take into account the sun visors are prolly fadded anyways...
Purchased fabric locally at chain fabric store, fiberglassed backing together from 4 pieces with fiberglass mat, then brushed backing with resin (soaks right in), light sanding to adhere better, then added material with headliner adhesive. The headliner backing is small enough to easily control the shape so you don't get weird dips and bends.
Not bad for a first try, if I may say so myself. Theres a few lines that are visible in the last pic but those straightend right out once i got it back in the car.
All for around $40 and some good old fashion family time with everyone pitching in! Actually it was pretty fun to do. I can't wait to get mommas 87 coupe over here so we can redo its headliner. At least that headliner boards not all mutilated like this ones was.
Do it yourself, you'll feel better about, save tons of $$$, and learn something.
