[Shop-talk] falling headliner fix?

[steve hochschild]

What Jack said; Upholstery twist pins are available at any of the 
fabric/sewing stores, and in my case, they worked fine for a couple of 
years.  Definitely the first thing to try.



On 4/19/2016 11:34 AM, jibrooks at live.com wrote:
>
> Back when I had a Saab 9000 with the same issue I put upholstery twist 
> pins (hillman pn 122264) into the cardboard backer material. This will 
> only work if the basket is soft like cardboard.
>
> It is not beautiful,  but it is functional.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:05 AM -0700, "John T. Blair" 
> <jblair1948 at cox.net <mailto:jblair1948 at cox.net>> wrote:
>
> At 07:40 AM 4/19/2016, Philip Ethier wrote:
>
> >My MOL has a Saturn with a falling headliner.  What's the fix for this?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think there is a fix in a can.  Usually the 
> head liners are a
> piece of cloth with a foam rubber backing which is glued to a 
> fiberglass shell.
>
> Over the years, heat and cool cycles, and wind beating on it (windows 
> rolled down)
> the foam rubber drys out and crumbles.
>
> You can try getting any spray glue and seeing if that won't hold it up 
> for a while,
> but the real fix is to take it to a shop and have them remove the 
> headliner, clean
> the old cloth off the shell, and install new material.  I don't have 
> any idea what
> it costs today.  I had a Voyager van done years ago for about $125 
> dollars.  But
> like I say that was well over 10 yrs ago.
>
> John
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