Dying Carpet and Headliner

[Tonyrodz]

I'd advise against the spray can adhesive, especially for such a large headliner. It's okay for small projects such as seats. But with something like a headliner that's constantly fighting gravity and extreme temperatures, it's durability is very questionable. You can get the real stuff from an upholstery supply house or online- do it right or do it twice!

This is in my '01 XJ. It had a light grey fabric headliner that was completely sagging. I replaced it with graphite colored, leather-grained vinyl. I used an old Harbor Freight sprayer to apply the glue.

Brushed off the decomposed foam:




Sprayed both surfaces and worked from the easy end (front) to the difficult end (rear with the built-in speaker pods):




After lots of pulling and grunting to lay it flat on the compound curves:






Cut, wrapped and glued the edges of the holes:




Installed:





This material is MUCH heavier than regular headliner fabric, but I have zero doubts about it staying up. Also, this was my first headliner experience.

I did a Jeep headliner exactly like yours a few months ago and it was a *****! ! Those rear speaker grills with the bulge in the headliner was horrible for me. Mine came out great except for that part, so I applaud you on a great job!

 

[Fosscore]

Mine was pewter up top and I went a medium to dark grey. It looks great and still feels roomy.

Went with the dark grey carpet as well to tie in with the rest of the pewter interior.

The interior parts have quite. few color variations that I didn't want to stray too far from hence no black or super dark charcoal. Just my .02.

 

[iamdub]

I did a Jeep headliner exactly like yours a few months ago and it was a *****! ! Those rear speaker grills with the bulge in the headliner was horrible for me. Mine came out great except for that part, so I applaud you on a great job!

Thank you! That whole back section took a LOT of work to get all of it to lay flat and not look like a couple of volcanoes with ridges down the sides. With how much I had to pull it back off and lay it back down, there's no way I would've been able to do it with regular headliner fabric.

 

[iamdub]

Mine was pewter up top and I went a medium to dark grey. It looks great and still feels roomy.

Went with the dark grey carpet as well to tie in with the rest of the pewter interior.

The interior parts have quite. few color variations that I didn't want to stray too far from hence no black or super dark charcoal. Just my .02.

Have pics posted? I'd really like to get a visual.

 

[Fosscore]

@iamdub

Check out this part of my build thread.

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/fosscores-2006-tahoe-build-thread.65729/page-14

I'll see if I have some more tomorrow on my laptop. You can see the slight color difference between the overhead and the pillars. Not sure if this gives you a good enough look. I kept the carpet lighter as well to not get too far away from the carpet color on the back of the 2nd row seats.

 

[05Single]

We don't have a harbor Frieght up here in Alaska. I miss it dearly

 

[ATIII]

Well I got a quote from a guy today to re-wrap it. He wanted 800-1000. So I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do.


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[Tonyrodz]

Well I got a quote from a guy today to re-wrap it. He wanted 800-1000. So I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do.


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For a headliner ?

 

[Fosscore]

Yikes!!

Mine was $250 at the local shop and the entire carpet kit with mass backing and custom mats from stockinteriors.com was $500.

Seems a little high just to wrap it, if nothing too exotic.

 

[Tonyrodz]

That's insane ! ! Average around here is $200 or so , not much more.