The title says it all, I had my sunroof tray fill up and over flow onto my headliner and now it sags in the rear pass. Any Ideas on how to fix it or just get it replaced (Possible Mold).
The title says it all, I had my sunroof tray fill up and over flow onto my headliner and now it sags in the rear pass. Any Ideas on how to fix it or just get it replaced (Possible Mold).
if you can get it dry, you can carefully peel off the vinal, then fiberglass the headliner and recover it, normally when i recover one for someone,it ends up coming apart in a bunch of pieces, then it has to be glassed all back togetherOriginally Posted by SOHC
is it the cloth or vinal kind? if its the cloth you mind as well just throw it out if its vinal go ahead and pull it down and check for mildew i know mine had allot of of mildew from a leaky sunroof and stunk hella bad
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
Well.. My "door carpeting?" was fuxxed, and I got bored one day. Maybe this could help? All you gotta do, is go get a can of spray adhesive, a cylindrical object (a soup can for all i care, or a paint roller, preferrably with no paint on it) and a flat thin object (can be a hand-roller, as pictured, or your big toe-nail.. I don't care too much).. pick the best starting point, which would be the spot on the edge of the headliner closest to the sag. Get that flat object and pry the fabric out of the plastic stuff that holds it in. (im runnin' on 3 hours here.. bare with me).. Pull the fabric back to the sag, spray the adhesive liberally, let sit for a minute or two to settle, flatten against the roof starting from the point it isn't sagging from and rolling flat the whole way. I know my instructions are fuxxed up, but you get the picture. Here's what I did.. down there.. look down. NAO!
Hope this helps bud. Good luck
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these headliners are cardboard underneath whether vinal or cloth, it's molded so you can't just put a flat piece in. if it's bad the only fix is another headliner, or very carefully peel that one apart, duct tape it back together on the back side if needed,then glass over it. it only takes a layer or two of fiberglass cloth, it should still be flexible to put it in. I figure they are hard to find there so you may have to fix it. also the spray adhesive in the can will not hold up a headliner for long, you have to use some pro type contact cement. i've tried the super 77 overhead and it just doesn't work.
its Cloth, I dont want to fix it until I can get the rear drain lines blown out.
well you might want to remove it and let it dry then,or it's going to continue to deteriorate.
thats the problem, everything behind my sunroof was SOAKED, to the point where it drips, no point in trying to fix it at all, until my sunroofs fixed.
what i'm saying is get the thing out, lay it flat and at least let it dry before you attemtp to do anyhting, you can drive the car without it. if you keep letting it get wet,it will be beyond repair
the sun roof is hella easy to fix man drop the head liner and you see 2 clear lines runing down each side of the roof unplug them from the sun roof and blow them out i just used my mouth and it cleared them up for good!
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
I'd say just go to the junkyard and find a new headliner. They're easy to pull out and easy to put back. I have a vinyl liner and spent some time filling the dings before I put the new one in. Hardest part was fitting the new headliner into the 3g and driving home with it resting on my head. No sweat bro.
Dr_Snooz
"I like to take hammers, and just break stuff, just break stuff." - Beavis
1989 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe, 240k miles, MT swap, rear disc swap
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he's in canada so that might not be so easy
There was 3 identicle cars to mine, but the wreaking yard crushed them.
Around here there are plenty of places that will restore headliners for about $100. When I lived in Corpus Christi it was $50.
Sometimes you just have to spend a few bucks and let people with experience do the work. It's not an indictment of your mechanic skills.
I was just gonna get the whole Interior redone, its starting to get brittle and separate.
I paid for reupholstering the seats on my first car - a 72 Catalina. It was worth every penny.
Very True, this car is as old as I am. Just wanna show alittle respect and fix her up.
it's not that hard to fix the headliner, for something this old most shops will also repair it. duct tape to piece it all back together and fiberglass will fix it just like new,then recover it. thats the same method most shops use i need to find my pictures of doing mine.
completely water logged headliner and sunroof shade, totally distroyed.
well you use it as a template after you let it dry and if it's that bad you can make a copy out of glass. the ductape on the back is just to hold it's shape while it's being repaired
here you go,this is what the headliner looks like without material on it, you can't see the 500 pieces of tape piecing it back together before it got glassed up. fell apart like old paper.
and after
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