[Shotimes] Replacing the headliner

[Fred George]

'Am in process of doing mine at the moment. Total cost at the local
upholstery shop was $50. Total re-installation time in my garage should be
one to two hours.

Fred
89 GEN 1 -- Original Owner

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:44 PM
To: George Fourchy; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Replacing the headliner

Removing the seats is unnecessary. Just recline the
front ones down as far as possible and remove the
headlight from the passenger from door. Reinstall the
front way. (no steering wheel on that side).

Ian

--- George Fourchy <krazgeo@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Mon,  8 Aug 2005 17:10:30 -0400,
> brogshan@email.unc.edu wrote:
> 
> >I need to replace the headliner of my '94 SHO.  I'm
> thinking of try to do it
> >myself, if anybody has done this do you have any
> tips?  Thanks.
> 
> If you have found another factory one-piece
> headliner, it is not hard to take loose
> from the car, but it is tricky to get it outside the
> cabin.  You need to remove at
> least one front seat....the book says the driver's
> seat...I'd take them both out. 
> Then maneuver it out one or the other of the back
> doors.  The easiest way to remove
> it is to take it out the front or back.  Do you need
> a new windshield?  Is it
> cracked, or otherwise insurance replaceable?  That
> would make the headliner swap
> really simple.
> 
> Remove all the plastic moldings from all around the
> side and front edges, remove the
> visors...watch the wiring...and remove the two plugs
> that snap it into the top just
> in front of the back window.  It will basically fall
> down after you loosen all these
> parts.  Be prepared to deal with the seat belt
> retractors in the pillars between the
> doors....they argue a lot with maintenance efforts.
> 
> It does not hurt the headliner to fold it once or
> twice, to help move it into
> position.  ....that is, it doesn't hurt a
> structually sound headliner.  It will not
> permanently wrinkle unless it is folded and left
> that way for a long time.  If your
> replacement is not new, you might want to take extra
> care not to fold it a bunch of
> times.  Fold it inward, so that the foam is on the
> outside....if you fold it
> backwards, so that the headliner fabric is
> stretched, it can tear, ruining it.
> 
> George
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