Anyone removed the headliner?

heathan · Sep 24, 2005

I'm about to start another little phase of my interior project. I'm going to dye the seats, door panel fabrics, headliner, and maybe the carpet. Now I know everyone has an opinion on this and I've heard most of them. Wrapping everything would be much better and wouldn't decrease the value of the car the way that painting or dyeing would. But I figure that I'd like to learn about uphostering, so maybe some day I'll just wrap over the old dyed fabric. Anyway, has anyone attempted this yet? It says nothing about it in my Haynes manual, but I figure it's probably pretty straight forward. Any tips or comments would be appreciated.

Once I find the charger to my camcorder I'll start the project so that I can take some DIY pics to post afterwards.

BlkCurrantKord · Sep 24, 2005

To remove the headliner you need to take out the "oh ****" handles, a-pillar covers, rear seats, rear 1/4 panels, sun visors, sunglasses holder/maplights, dome light, and the top screws for the seat belts to get the rear 1/4 panels out. If you have a sunroof you'll need to pull the plastic cover/guard off as well. Once you do all that it should just pull down but be careful. It may be useful to remove one of the front seats so you have more room to move around and get it out of the car.

ryon527 · Sep 25, 2005

you should have someone help you when you remove the headliner so you don't crease it.

heathan · Sep 27, 2005

well I don't have a sunroof so that'll make it a tad bit easier. I think it should go pretty smoothly. I'll definetly have someone help me out with it though. I don't like workin alone anyways. I like to have a buddy to BS with.

heathan · Oct 27, 2005

I've begun my headliner project finally. You can check up on the progress at my cardomain site.

http://www.cardomain.com/profile/heathan

blackaccord69 · Oct 28, 2005

looks like a cool project, keep updating that cardomain page!

whitey2kaccord · Oct 28, 2005

Yeah, its gonna look good when you finish.

okasu · Oct 28, 2005

ahhh there is green everywhere... he shat everywhere!! HaHA... all you need now is them huge hulk gloves that Andy has in his trunk. HAHA coming along good so far... cant wait to see how it turns out.

ryon527 · Oct 29, 2005

if I had a gray interior I would do the headliner in ultrasuede. Heres a good site for fabrics. www.denverfabrics.com

heathan · Nov 2, 2005

ok, I have the headliner removed along with alot of the trim. I think I'm just gonna keep goin with it now before the cold weather sets in. I'm gonna remove the dash trim again and repaint it all and paint the dash black. I'm also gonna do away with the gold. I've posted more pics on my cardomain page as well too. Keep ya posted!! And thanks for all the comments everyone.

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