well you got it easy since you're daytona is a hatch
remove all the stuff like overhead lights, sunvisors, laundry hooks, front rear trim, apillar trim and at least one interior quarter trim panel, slide the board out.
peel the old cloth off and dispose- theres no saving it.
remove as much of the foam backing from the cloths as you can from the headliner board. the best thing ive ever used to do this was a dual head buffer with plastic bristle brushes attached in place of buffer pads.took all the foam residue off like it was nothing and didnt damage headliner boards. you could also use one of the small floor scrubbers like a bissel floor scrubber, dry with no soap or water to scrub off the foam. if you dnt have acess to either one a simple plastic bristle scrub brush will work just fine.
the material and glue is avaliable at autozone, parts america and most other parts stores, or it can be found at most large fabric shops too. you either want to use 3M general spray adhiesive, or 3M super77 spray adheisive. either one works but the super 77 is better
take your new material, and hang it like a poster with a pair of thumbtacks on each corner and spray the whole underside(foam side) with an even coat of glue
if youre using the general trim adhesive, spray from about 4 inches or so away with the valve on the H setting. you'll see it make a wide spray pattern, and cover the entire cloth with that stuff, be sure to overlap a little on the top and bottom of each pass with the glue- when youre done spraying the glue it should almost look like siding- horizontal stripes that slightly overlap each other. if the glue is going on the cloth stringy, youre too far away- those strings will show through in the headliner material.
do the same thing to the headliner board
the glue is dry and ready to stick when the headliner material no longer feels cold- about 3-4 minutes depending on how thick you sprayed the glue
have an assistant help you with covering the board
hold the material over the board and let the center droop down.
take your hand and push the center of the material down while still holding the edges up and smooth it onto the board from the center out to the edges.
once the bottom of the board is covered, flip it over and spray a 1-2 inch wide line of glue around the edge, when this dries fold the material over the edge and stick the edges down.
take a brand new razor blade and make a small slit over the coat hanger hook holes, the sunvisor holes, sun visor clip holes and the domelight hole.
recovered headliner is ready to go into the car
i worked at a detail shop in high school, and one of our services was recovering headliners- did like 3-4 of em a day.
hatch back cars are very easy to do
full size vans and stationwagons sucked because most of em had 2 piece headliners.
sedans werent bad, but it was a pain trying to get the board out of the car, had to get board loose and down, turn it sideways and carefully slide it out the front door. these cars had the headliner installed before the winshield was installed so its not very easy to get it out with the glass there
Seems My 87 Daytona Is Starting To Show It's Age With Things Drying Out, Cracking, Breaking Or Coming Loose. I Thought I Fixed Nearly Everything And While Driving Last Weekend With The T-tops Off, I Saw Fabric Floating From My Rear View Mirror. The Head Liner Is Starting To Detach Right Where The Hatch Starts. Any Suggestions How To Fix Before It Gets Worse Other Than Replacing The Liner? Thanks!!
