Anyone know where i can get a headliner........

[84RabbitGTI]

anyone know where i can get a headliner for an 84 gti with a sunroof??

[Fourt1thirty]

Find a good solid headliner card. Unless you car has one this might take some hunting since most headliners have been ripped out already. Some fabric shops stock the proper foam backed headliner material. If you're unsure just purchase it from an upholstry shop. From there go to an upholstry shop and have them glue material to the headliner card, leaving about 4" extra around it. Keep enough scraps around to do all the pillars.

I did the one on my girlfriends bunny this way and it turned out perfect.

[db]

Where are you located? My father installs them...PM/Email me if you are in the PA/DE/NJ tri-state area.

[retro_rocket]

Originally Posted by Fourt1thirty

Find a good solid headliner card. Unless you car has one this might take some hunting since most headliners have been ripped out already. Some fabric shops stock the proper foam backed headliner material. If you're unsure just purchase it from an upholstry shop. From there go to an upholstry shop and have them glue material to the headliner card, leaving about 4" extra around it. Keep enough scraps around to do all the pillars.

You can probably save some money by applying the fabric yourself, it's not terribly difficult, all it takes is a couple cans of 3M General Purpose adhesive and some patience.

It's also important to note that the backing board must be clean and free of debris before applying the adhesive and new fabric. Usually, the old fabric falls away from the old backing, leaving the old dried-up foam stuck to the cardboard. I used putty knives to scrape away the excess and a palm sander to smooth everything out.

At an upholstery shop you will pay a little more than at a fabric shop for the material (it's usually around $10 a yard at a chain fabric store vs. $12-15 at an upholstery shop, depending on if they have it in stock), but the real advantage is having more choices. A chain store might stock around 5 popular colors (black, grey, blue, red, tan) but at an upholstery shop there will literally be hundreds of choices, they'll have tons of sample books to look through.

My Rabbit's headliner is the second one I've done, probably the biggest PITA was getting the damn thing in and out of the car because the fabric is tucked under the seals in many places.

[Fourt1thirty]

Friends have had issues before with 3m-ing the material to the backing board and having the adhesive fail within a few years. I had a shop spray mine with the glue gun as a safety measure and found they wanted only a hair over what the canned glue would have cost me.

[retro_rocket]

Touche...the glue does cost quite a bit, mainly because you need about 3-4 cans since you have to lay down several coats.

It should not fall w/3M adhesive if done correctly though, almost always when people tell me theirs fell it's because they used the wrong adhesive (Super 77, which is usually sold at craft stores where you can find the fabric, but is explicitly labelled as not being for use on headliners) or they did not allow the adhesive to properly tack up or did not apply the recommended number of coats of adhesive before applying the fabric. The method I used on the Rabbit is the same way that my dad and I did the headliner in the Olds wagon we used to have, and it still looked like new when we sold the car 5 years after redoing it.

[84RabbitGTI]

OGrabbit...that looks good that is the same color as my interior and the same dome light and all i like it i might have to do it that way