Headliner material

[Roger Chatfield 0]

Evening chums,

Does anyone know where I can get some suitable material to recover my grey headliner?

 

Rog.

[southerner88 10]

Hi Rog,

 

When I did mine I sort of cheated...

 

I took the headliner out, gave it a good clean with snow foam then when it had dried out I sprayed it with some fabric spray that I got from Amazon.

 

Took a few coats to get it an even shade of Black but now its on the car you cant tell (did the interior sunroof surround whilst I was at it)

 

just another option to think about...

[Roger Chatfield 0]

Mine is sagging in a few places so I've managed to source an old complete head liner, I'm going to strip and recover that but I want the get the colour as OE as possible.

 

Rog.

[southerner88 10]

ahh fair play,

 

the only place Ive seen the full liner for sale is here,

https://www.vwheritage.com/shop/corrado/535867499CSO2/corrado-headlining-for-sunroof-models-beige-genuin/?crumbStartPage=2&crumbStartRow=31

 

hopefully someone else on here has done similar to what your wanting to achieve...

[robrado974 1]

Have a talk to someone in a fabric shop Rog , there must be one in Plymouth. If you take a sample of the old one , they will hopefully be able to match it .

[Jim Bowen 1]

Got mine from here:

 

http://www.as-trim.co.uk/

 

Used the black foam backed stuff and went on a treat, had never attempted to trim something before but it all went pretty much perfect on the first go.

 

http://www.as-trim.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_200_201&products_id=387

 

I actually have loads of the material left, enough to do another 2 headlinings.

[seanl82 23]

Jim, did you recover the sunroof trim with this as well? I looked into it in the past, and the 3mm foam backing put me off a bit as I thought it may snag when retracting or going forward due to the thickness of it.

[Jim Bowen 1]

Nah, i didn't want to remove it and thought the same, that it might catch and pull the lining off, so i used a black dye and brushed it on. Didn't come out great as i didn't clean it well enough. Think i even brushed on some black leather paint as it came out a little greyer than the new lining.

 

Looks ok though with a difference in colour.

 

 

 

 

Changed the visors for audi ones.

 

Just realised you can't really see the sunroof in my pics.

[twinny 10]

What Audi did the sunvisor a come out of Jim? Thanks

[Jim Bowen 1]

A 2007 Audi A4 Cabriolet, but had to modify them to fit properly.

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Got mine from here:

 

http://www.as-trim.co.uk/

 

Used the black foam backed stuff and went on a treat, had never attempted to trim something before but it all went pretty much perfect on the first go.

 

http://www.as-trim.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_200_201&products_id=387

 

I actually have loads of the material left, enough to do another 2 headlinings.

 

Nice. That's ex Audioscape btw, in case you didn't know. They of the Corrado door pod fame :)

[Heiminator 10]

Great link there Jim, a lot more cost effective than buying new, which is out of stock at vwheritage now anyways..

 

I take it lifting the old fabric, spraying the adhesive and laying back down isn't an option? Has anyone had a go at this? Suppose the foam won't be in the best of states underneath perhaps..

 

How did it go removing the old fabric / foam? Did you use any special tools/liquids?

 

Also how did you go about trimming? Trace the shape on the fabric / measure and mark up or glue down in one piece and trim from the other side?

 

Can anyone comment on colour match of the light grey colour?

[_Matt_ 32]

I've done this job earlier this year. Fabric came from AS Trims and I chose light grey which was a perfect match to the oem sunroof material.

 

Once removed from the car I manually scraped the glue residue off.

 

Then cut the new fabric to shape, glued it starting from the back end of the liner to the front. Once all glued I then cut out the sunroof and around the sun visor mounts. I used a glue gun the glue back the sides.

 

Once all of that was done I turned it over and left it rest overnight and installed in the car the next day.

 

Originally I thought it would be a difficult job but actually it was really easy, including the removal and refitting.