Headliner
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nosivad_bor said:
Yep. This is the normal failure mode and no amount of new glue (or magically rehydrated glue) is going to fix that.
For folks local to Danville, VA:
Call Will for redone headliners (he has the shells done locally - you pitch yours). He quoted me ~$200 in the spring.
It would be a pick up only deal though (install new one there).
Call Will for redone headliners (he has the shells done locally - you pitch yours). He quoted me ~$200 in the spring.
It would be a pick up only deal though (install new one there).
Don't be nervous. There is nothing really difficult about pulling and painting the headliner. It is just very time consuming. Be patient.caljw said:Yeah I'm kinda nervous about doing it myself....that's why I asked about that shop that sells the kit. Maybe I need to make a trip to Tijuana
nosivad_bor said:
A painted liner is not a "hack job." It is an upgrade. Here are my notes from when I did mine 2 1/2 years ago.
http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64989&highlight=mlnnc
And I agree with the person who said that the steamer/roller method won't work, at least not with DII headliners. That's becuase the problem is not the adhesive. The problem is that the foam disintegrates.
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I just finished doing mine tonight. I wish I had done some things differently. I am not sure I spread the glue right. I am not sure I laid the fabric down right... It does look much better than before but I am not entirely as happy as I had hoped considering the amount of money I spent. The fabric alone from Sunbelt in Dallas was about 50.
I heard a guy in McKinney(outside Dallas) got his done at a shop for $75. I probably would have been more than happy to take it there instead of do it on my own.
I heard a guy in McKinney(outside Dallas) got his done at a shop for $75. I probably would have been more than happy to take it there instead of do it on my own.
I just finished doing mine tonight. I wish I had done some things differently. I am not sure I spread the glue right. I am not sure I laid the fabric down right... It does look much better than before but I am not entirely as happy as I had hoped considering the amount of money I spent. The fabric alone from Sunbelt in Dallas was about 50.
I heard a guy in McKinney(outside Dallas) got his done at a shop for $75. I probably would have been more than happy to take it there instead of do it on my own.
I heard a guy in McKinney(outside Dallas) got his done at a shop for $75. I probably would have been more than happy to take it there instead of do it on my own.
If still interested - get in touch with Valencia's Auto Upholstry there in Encinitas. Did my D1 few years back - great job, has held up & you get to choose your own fabric color.. Reasonable price for the job they did
RickM said:
Yeah, I've done a couple in my day and my take away was that by the time you spend a bunch of dough on the fabric and the multiple cans of spray glue (the 3M stuff is like $20 per can, if I remember) you've already blown through $100 to $150. Then there are some things you really have to do a couple of times to really get the hang of. I think headliners are one of them.
My LWB Rangie headliner job lasted about 3 months. Too much humidity in Atlanta on the day I did it, I think.
I covered a piece of pegboard for the headliner on my Scout. That was totally flat and perfectly rectangular. I still managed to get a spot of glue on the wrong side of the fabric and leave a palm indentions in a couple of other areas. It's a messy job and it's not very forgiving if you make a little mistake.
I'll be removing my DII headliner and taking it to a pro. That thing is a funky shape!