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This guide will show you the detailed basic steps to remove your old headliner, replace the loose, stained or torn material, and re-install the headliner into the vehicle. This type of headliner has been used since the early 1980’s through today, also can be known and referred to as roof lining, headlining or hood lining. Installing a new headliner is a fairly easy, do it yourself job for any confident person. Although time consuming, it is not a difficult procedure. If at any time you do not feel fully confident you can handle the removal, recovering and/0r install on your own, you should seek a professional to be there with you. Please make sure to thoroughly read over this guide prior to starting the job.
Older cars (generally sixties and earlier) have headliners which hang from bows that go across the car roof. Later headliners are of the moulded type, fabric glued to a large, formed, cardboard/fiberglass backing that plugs and screws to the roof. The instructions that follow will cover the modern style moulded type headliners.

The majority of automotive enthusiast like to tackle their own mechanical repairs. Reupholstering a headlining is not usually a complex task, but the simplest step for example, reinstalling a grab handle that uses unique clips rather than generally just two screws or a tricky removal of a sunglasses roof console can slow up the moderately experienced home mechanic and put a halt on the job until we jump on the net, search Youtube, search car forums, google and social media seeking the answer to complete the job properly. This package brings all the answers together here now for you to follow, all the necessary links and information is provided here in this neat information package I’ve put together to suit your vehicle.

By fully reading this information package you will learn what steps to take and what steps NOT to take, especially the common mistake of just adding glue to fix the sagging problem. Upholstery/trimming mistakes are not likely to be as severe as bodywork or engine building mistakes, but they can still waste a lot of money and time. So by reading this, gaining more knowledge will help you with planning your project thoroughly, thus making the upholstery project a much smoother process, with fewer mistakes. .

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