How-to: Removing & Reinstalling the Headliner [Headlining]

[Charles]

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hey all, ive been giving this a go on a biscuit that the previous owner had attempted "gluing", and it left a moist like glue that has been pretty hard to remove..

Any suggestions on a product that might help loosening the glue?

Rubbing alchol worked best for me and a scrapper

 

[Alan_uk]

hey all, ive been giving this a go on a biscuit that the previous owner had attempted "gluing", and it left a moist like glue that has been pretty hard to remove..

Any suggestions on a product that might help loosening the glue?

As I said in post no. 10:

I used kitchen surface cleaner (spay bottle) to soften the glue. The outer panel turn to mush and was easily scrapped up with a small plastic de-icer scraper. The inner panel was more harder to remove.

 

[hoverdog]

Evening.

I have also used the same supplier for headlining fabric with great results. This is a link to their Grey offering which is a reasonable colour match to the A2s Paltinum fabric:

Car Headlining or Headliner Fabric 2mm Foam Backed Sold By the metre! 6 Colours | eBay

Car Headlining To Foam. Bonded to 2mm foam. The actual fabric appearances, textures, colours and quality of your fabric may not be as what you see on screen, the dyeing process between fabrics vary due to way the fabric has been woven, constructed or treated.

www.ebay.co.uk

Whist it’s a good match I highly recommend recovering the A and D pillars along with sun visors for a perfectly refreshed appearance. You’ll need to dismantle the sun visors but there is a helpful post here to assist:

Guide - How to Reupholster The A2 Sun Visor

Evening all, After my recent breakthrough on understanding how simple it was to separate the 2 halves of the A2’s Sun Visor, I thought I’d compose something for you all to follow. What’s the reasoning behind this, well you may have seen that last year I reupholstered the headlining in Project...

www.a2oc.net

Something to have at hand is some food bags half filled with water and taped up so they don't leak. Placing these water bags as weights into the dips/channels of the headlining biscuit to hold the fabric down whilst the adhesive cures is extremely helpful, certainly if you have to stretch the fabric into place as it’ll just want to lift away from the headlining biscuit.

Hope this helps a successful reupholstery.

Kind regards,

Tom

Instead of water Tom, use dry sand-its a lot easier to clean up if the bag leaks

 

[2work]

Instead of water Tom, use dry sand-its a lot easier to clean up if the bag leaks

Evening,

Great idea indeed and will use your approach when I next refurbish a headlining biscuit, which should be in the next couple of months in the Project EUD A2.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[hoverdog]

Evening,

Great idea indeed and will use your approach when I next refurbish a headlining biscuit, which should be in the next couple of months in the Project EUD A2.

Kind regards,

Tom

Mine needs doing too, there's going to be a load of wasted fabric though-its an OSS roof.

 

[2work]

Mine needs doing too, there's going to be a load of wasted fabric though-it’s an OSS roof.

Hi again,

Use the central cut out for the A&D omits along with refurbished the sun visors, doing this will have the whole roof area all the very same colour.

As you know you'll need to remove the D pillars and sun visors as part of the headlining removal process so why not remove the A pillars for a complete refreshes interior.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[hoverdog]

Mine needs doing too, there's going to be a load of wasted fabric though-its an OSS roof.

....an interesting job I did last week-decided to replace the existing EGR valve with a thoroughly cleaned one. My A2 has already had the Depronman EGR delete and remap. Taking off the existing EGR valve, found the expected oily carbon build-up in the airway. More surprisingly, there was an even greater oily carbon build-up in the inlet manifold. I (carefully) removed as much build-up in the manifold as I could, but what's the likelihood of the build-up extending to the outer reaches of the manifold?
I wonder how many other owners get the EGR delete done but don't bother cleaning out the EGR valve/inlet manifold.
Acceleration is brisk since the clean.

 

[hoverdog]

Hi again,

Use the central cut out for the A&D omits along with refurbished the sun visors, doing this will have the whole roof area all the very same colour.

As you know you'll need to remove the D pillars and sun visors as part of the headlining removal process so why not remove the A pillars for a complete refreshes interior.

Kind regards,

Tom

Great idea

 

[krypz0n]

Thank you for all the support.

I ended up scraping all or most of the glue with mostly elbow grease, some paint thinner (although i wouldnt reccomend it, it damaged parts of the thin fiber glass panel, but theyre not noticeable with the fabric ontop).
Applying the fabric was a true pain in the outer part, on the front side next to the front ceiling lights i had to do some bends, but oh well. I also applied too much glue in some parts and left a few small stains, but its 100x better than what it was before.

Finally used hot glue to glue the biscuit to the outer part, as i think it was originally.

 

[krypz0n]

Oh, one question, the backside of my front seats is in this sorry state, i have quite a bit of fabric leftovers, could i glue them to the rearside of the seats?

Can the plastic trim come off?