How do you fix a healiner that is sagging?
I was driving today and looked over on the passenger side and noticed the headliner was coming down,not realy the hole thing just the material on it came loose and is hanging down.
Any suggestion for a fix.
Thanks
BadBob

 

Do you own a blowtorch? Your best bet. Try doing a search on here first, there are many answers on that issue.

 

if you have a hard top car (cant tell from your avitar pic) , pop off your visors, billar trim, and all of the back area trim. then CAREFULLY slide the headliner to the pas side a tad and the front part over the rear view mirror will come down. after its fully down with the help of a friend walk the headliner out the back hatch area.
pull the material off and get a firm bristle brush and scrub all of the foam off till ya see the yellow board. you will still have some particles attached but it will mainly be yellow. after you have purchased the correct color from a fabric store lay it stright on the headliner and start glueing from the center outward. use a good amount of glue but dont soak it. i used the permitex stuff from AZ.
after the material is glued, lap about 1-1½ in over the front edge of the board as this is the part thats in the front weindow. trim the other edges flush with the board as its all coverd by the plastic trim.
after its given time to dry or get good and set, trim your holes. leave a little around the seat belt guides and the visor mounts otherwise it will pull back and het material edge will pertrude.
after all that pop it back in like you pulled it out.
if you have a T top car i sugguest buying one of the ready to go versions as T top headliners are a good bit more involved.

 

Hey Bob, yeah what he said. If you do replace it let me know how it comes out, I was thinking about redoing mine because I have 2 minor sags in the back seat.
Lawrence

 

wasn't mentinoed yet, but there's also a tech article on the boards about reparing your headliner, you'll find it from the links on the main page. tech articles, interior (i think) and headliner repair or something of the sort....

One thing missed in those steps was covering the board w/ a fiberglass cloth, w/ adhesive and the cloth on the board, the rigidity of the board was greatly increased. It also gives the glue a new surface to adhere to instead of more yellow foam, as we all know what the result of glue on yellow foam does after years of use. If you have a t-top headliner, you can do it also, just get practice at doing corners, or you won't be happy w/ the results, and will be doing it all over again.

 

The temporary fix, until you get time to do it right, is to take straight pins and insert them on an angle and pin it up to the backing. That kept mine from rubbing my head for a few days.

 

I did re did my daily drivers headliner over the summer. It wasn't that hard, and it was my first time attempting anything like it.

One thing i learned though is when you buy the 3m adhesive buy the strongest stuff. At first i bought the weaker kind cause it said "for carboard" on the can, so i though that was the right stuff. Well the foam came unglued within a weak. Luckily i tested it out on my sunroof slider so i didn't waste that much material.

Good luck

 

Thanks for all the help
Badbob

 

You can also get an abs plastic headliner board for our cars now.

 

Use 3M super 77 and clean all of the old material off the board, I did mine 2 years ago and still looks great. If I could keek my rear view mirror glued on every thing would be great.