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30th June 2024, 13:27 | #1 |
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Head Liner
My head liner on me tourer has started to sag. Since moving house I no longer the garage or space to fix it myself. Has any member go any idea how long and how much it will take and cost me for someone else to replace it for me?
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30th June 2024, 14:12 | #2 |
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No, I did my saloon headliner myself. After getting it out, I did it indoors on the dining room table as the garage/ outside were likely to lead to it getting grubby. Do you have room indoors?
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30th June 2024, 16:05 | #3 |
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If I was to try and do something like that in the dinning room my life would be hell. Dinning room belongs to my better half.
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30th June 2024, 20:10 | #4 |
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Tell her it’s more like needlework than car repair. Cutting, folding and gluing fabric.
Admittedly getting the old fabric off is messy, so messy that’s deffo an outside job.
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30th June 2024, 21:58 | #5 |
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Who/where did you source the fabric?
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1st July 2024, 12:48 | #6 |
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Is there a definitive 'How to" on replacing the headlining of our cars? There must be lots needing it now. I know there are You Tube posts that are helpful but something along the lines of Arctic's wonderful guides would be my preference any day! Jeremy
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1st July 2024, 19:44 | #7 |
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I got the fabric from Martrim. I used the silver grey colour after ordering samples and comparing (silver grey, cloud grey, oatmeal). None were an exact match, but I preferred the silver grey on my ZT. More blue grey than brown grey imo.
I found a 75 tourer how to on you tube, but also previously did a R25 headlining (oatmeal) and wrote the below linked. The fabric replacement procedure is similar, but the card removal differs a bit. The ZT unhelpfully had a small loom firmly glued to the top of the card. The card fitted out of the front passenger door with the seats fully back and reclined. This time I also prepped the cleaned off card surface by painting it with diluted PVA, to reduce the amount of expensive spray on adhesive it would have absorbed. This extended the time as I left it longer (overnight) to dry, before finishing. https://www.mg-rover.org/threads/rov....872428/unread
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I fixed one for a few pounds recently using one of those screw kits:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Repair-Reta.../dp/B08YZ7LNR7 It comes out looking like a chesterfield sofa, but it works and costs buttons. Can be done in situ - no need to remove the headliner and re-fit. It takes a bit of time to measure all the positions into a grid. |
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