Once the fabric starts to separate from the headliner, it’s downhill fast for your interior. Use this simple technique to refurbish your cab, returning your two seater coupe into like new condition. This particular car has some very interesting curls and bumps in the preformed headliner. To keep the pressure even into all those unusual shapes, employ the help of a shop towel wrapped in a plastic bag or Reynolds wrap. The plastic will help keep you from accidentally gluing the rag to your headliner. The Weldwood adhesive gets everywhere, and comes out of the spray nozzle like crazy string. You may need to use a tongue depressor or paint stick to smooth out bumpy coagulated adhesive so the fabric will lay down smooth and clean just like it rolled off the lot. Make sure you protect the back side of the material, as spraying without the napkin in place will result in the adhesive permeating and soaking through the foam, discoloring the fabric on the side your passengers will see.
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My 04 crossfire is doing it too! thank you for this video!
This is such a messing job. Those sticky foam pieces fall out all over the car. I used Twist pins and I cut out octagon shape 1" pieces of gray, [the color of my headliner] light cardboard. I used a pin and punched tiny holes in the middle of the cardboard and screwed in the twist pins all over where the headliner was sagging. No messing around with spray stuff but it took plenty of cardboard pieces and twist pins. I used the insides of gray cereal boxes for the octagon I" pieces. I got the twist pins from Amazon.
Very helpful. Thanks.
I know this makes me the biggest geek perhaps in the known universe, but i was thrilled to see your vids because my 2008 Xfire is EXACTLY THE SAME COLOR COMBO AS YOURS. INSIDE AND OUT!
Thank you for posting this valuable video. Calling around this week for professional estimates to replace my headliner…and YIKES…the quotes started at 200.00…up to 500.00. Your step by step is certainly something to consider. Thanks again! Peace friend.
Haven't read all the comments yet but I would recommend using the newspaper template to make a poster board template which would be easier to hold in place as you could force the edge up against the area where the glass meets the rubber seal and tape only the bottom of the shield poster board.
I don't get why you have a napkin behind the fabric, can't you just spray the glue up there and lay the fabric down? You are putting the fabric on the glue anyway, right?!
Exact same issue with my own XFire. I've decided to just get it replaced with fresh everything since its still under 100,000 miles & deserves the sprucing up. Amazing job by the way! I wouldn't trust myself to do it.