DIY: Headliner replacement

So after driving around in a Victorian palace lined with drapes I decide it was time to replace my roof lining. The guys that did my steering wheel wanted R1700.00 to do it. After some research I bought 4m of dove grey roof lining and two cans of glue all for R330.00.

So here are some pics of the de-assembly and the condition of mainly the sunroof door. REMEMBER to disconnect the battery as there are airbags!!!

Started off by removing the sunvisors.







The B Pillar needs its own DIY to remove as you need to remove all the bottom panels next to the seat just the slide out the B Pillar. Will add a link at the bottom and more complete DIY step by step.



To remove the sunroof slide just open the sunroof and as its opening just pull the sunroof cover down towards you so the sunroof slides over it and the sunroof cover is closed but the sunroof itself is open.



Use a Torx Screwdriver to remove the screws and sliders on top.



Make sure when replacing the roof that these 'clips' line up with the correct sliding channel.



Notice the rooflining pulling away just above the C Pillar



Roof out





The state of the sunroof cover.



So initial thoughts was that this will go quick. Just scrape the foam off.



NO NO NO. Theres a entire layer of 15 years of solid glue that needs to come off.



This took the entire day....

New material on.



The rooflining was luckily just foam that needed to be scraped off.



Not much more pics as I actually did the roof at 1:00am. So too tired to take pics but here is the finished product.



I will be getting second hand, but practically spotless A,B and C Pillars and 3rd Brake light so I did not do them now. Will update when I get them.

I think it came out okay.

Will post all the links now.