A caller with a jeep asked what to do about a falling headliner. Replace it? Rip it out? Tom and Ray suggested gluing it. I had a headliner fall out where it met the rear window. A body shop I called said they don’t work on cars unless they’ve been in an accident. Since the headliner…

When the foam deteriorates above the headliner, the glue method doesn’t work very well because there is nothing to glue the headliner to. A trim shop replaced my headliner for about $125 some years back, so $300-400 sounds a little high. I have had really good results with the screw in pins availa…

I fixed the headliner in an old Buick with a staples. Thumb tacks sometimes work too. You can make some pretty cool patterns on the ceiling of the car.

Gluing a headliner that has disbonded will not work. OK, it might work for a very short while (a couple weeks), but not over the long haul. Regluing an area that came unglued does nothing to answer the original problem: why did it debond to begin with? The only long-term solution is to pull the he…

My dad has had this problem for years with his Chevy station wagon, and he too found that glue did not work. He had pretty great success, though, sewing it up with dental floss, using one of those big flexible curved needles. We used cinnamon flavor to match the reddish headliner! :slight_smile:

I heard the show… Could magnets possibly be helpful?

They would have to be pretty powerful magnets to hold though the thickness of the material between the fabric and the medal roof.

I had my last '65 Rambler Classic about three years ago. The fiberglass headliner was STILL perfect. It also had its original muffler which was ceramic coated on the INSIDE. No wonder they went belly up. Their cars were too good. Note that the “Classic” was not the most expensive model AMC made.

If you’re going to keep the car for a while, i’d probably throw down $400 and let an upholstery specialist (one of those mobile guys) do it. Might as well get it done with black cloth too, as it looks so much cooler!

My 1965 Rambler Classic was the bottom of the line 550. It had very comfortable seats and the 7 main bearing 199 cubic inch 6 (the more expensive models had a 232 cubic inch 6) ran beautifully. It had plenty of torque, so I could go around a corner and not have to downshift to second gear. I’m gl…

Falling headliner

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ryanhorlacher October 7, 2008, 1:53am 7

Yep, I had to scrape the roof and headliner. And then my first couple glue applications held for 3-10 days. I think the temperature variations are especially tough on the glue. After I made the foam and strut rig to keep pressure while the glue cured for a month, it wasn’t going anywhere. I just wish I’d done that first and it might have ended up looking pretty good.

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