new headliner ideas

[leveliv]

Well...the goof who had my car before me...decided to fix a sagging dirty old headliner with Tacks....

so I ripped it out. but now I just dont want just a normal headliner there...something cool...like leather or something...Any suggestions?

[reliantwagon]

spray it down with glue and throw confetti on it?

[leveliv]

hahahaha! :|

[detobias]

you can cover it with just about anything you want

pull old headliner first

scuff / sand all the old glue and headliner remnants from the hardboard (cardboard?) then give it a good solid coating of spray adhesive, and apply your gorilla fur or pleather or whatever ..

let it dry 'upside down' real well ; then reinstall !

ooh - how about denim !?

[leveliv]

HAHA I love it :P ain't no fur goin in my car tho.

[88shadowpjct]

i did the fur in my minivan. bad way to find out you're allergic to dust. i was vacuuming my headliner every day. i do car interior work on the side. i just re-covered my shadow headliner with camo.. check it out..

[speeduphoria]

Hey thats cool!

What kind of fabric is it? Like where would one find it? What other kind of patterns are available?

[leveliv]

I was thinking black leather with a red double stitch thing.. down the middle.

[Sittn86]

I recovered the headliner in my SC with light blue suede. I had to split it in the front, right down the middle because suede isn't a very flex-friendly material. It looks pretty good, though.

[88shadowpjct]

i went to Joanne's Fabrics. you can find pretty much anything you want. they have the actual headliner material there too with the thin padding. i wasnt too concerned with it, so i just picked what i wanted. there is SO much stuff there. go check it out. well, any big fabric place really.. just remember to buy headliner adhesive. it's different than regular spray adhesive. and def measure your headliner 2 or 3 times so you know exactly how much to get. and i suggest get a little extra so you can cover the visors to match.

[Jim Falco]

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Originally Posted by 88shadowpjct i went to Joanne's Fabrics. you can find pretty much anything you want. they have the actual headliner material there too with the thin padding. i wasnt too concerned with it, so i just picked what i wanted. there is SO much stuff there. go check it out. well, any big fabric place really.. just remember to buy headliner adhesive. it's different than regular spray adhesive. and def measure your headliner 2 or 3 times so you know exactly how much to get. and i suggest get a little extra so you can cover the visors to match.

Do you have a web address for it?

[Jim Falco]

nevermind, found it.
joannesfabrics.com
search under headliner

[88shadowpjct]

i just drove to the store lol idk if you have one near you, but its easier cuz you can spend a while there just looking at stuff. i even found ideas for other things i could make out of some of that stuff there

[leveliv]

yah that website you found was crap..nothing but spam :P

I was thinking of covering the top of my dash but I dont like the feel.

[WSDave]

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Originally Posted by 88shadowpjct ...and i suggest get a little extra so you can cover the visors to match.

Collar and cuffs should match FTW. Speaking of FTW, why isn't there an emoticon waving a checkered flag?