Head Liner

ardvark · 30th June 2024, 13:27

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?

gnu · 30th June 2024, 14:12

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?

ardvark · 30th June 2024, 16:05

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.

gnu · 30th June 2024, 20:10

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.

rab60bit · 30th June 2024, 21:58

Who/where did you source the fabric?

jeremy · 1st July 2024, 12:48

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

gnu · 1st July 2024, 19:44

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

TBennet · 2nd July 2024, 12:03

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.

30th June 2024, 13:27	#1
ardvark Al 75 CDTI Tourer Auto Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Studley Posts: 1,459 Thanks: 1 Thanked 69 Times in 48 Posts	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? __________________ ARDVARK

30th June 2024, 14:12	#2
gnu Gets stuck in MG ZT Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Bristol Posts: 729 Thanks: 332 Thanked 164 Times in 133 Posts	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? __________________ gnu

30th June 2024, 16:05	#3
ardvark Al 75 CDTI Tourer Auto Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Studley Posts: 1,459 Thanks: 1 Thanked 69 Times in 48 Posts	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. __________________ ARDVARK

30th June 2024, 20:10	#4
gnu Gets stuck in MG ZT Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Bristol Posts: 729 Thanks: 332 Thanked 164 Times in 133 Posts	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. __________________ gnu

1st July 2024, 19:44	#7
gnu Gets stuck in MG ZT Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Bristol Posts: 729 Thanks: 332 Thanked 164 Times in 133 Posts	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 __________________ gnu

30th June 2024, 21:58	#5
rab60bit Posted a thing or two Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Wilmslow Posts: 1,532 Thanks: 433 Thanked 301 Times in 212 Posts	Who/where did you source the fabric?

1st July 2024, 12:48	#6
jeremy Avid contributor Rover 75 Tourer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Limerick Posts: 107 Thanks: 71 Thanked 24 Times in 16 Posts	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

2nd July 2024, 12:03	#8
TBennet Regular poster MG ZT-T 190 Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Manchester Posts: 73 Thanks: 3 Thanked 9 Times in 7 Posts	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.