Solvent for orange headliner foam?

[Huw Powell]

> One of my local Audi buddies determined that the
> Type 44 headliner is NLA from Audi. So he had his
> re-covered by an auto interior guy for several hundred.
> I do not know whether the liner backing board had to
> come out or not. In other words, I do not know whether
> the cloth separated from the board or the board from
> the roof.

On my 90Q, the board (which was little more than corrugated cardboard) 
comes out, it was mostly held in by various interior trim parts and the 
sunroof edge.  There was some glue in the center of the rear section, 
though.

Board comes out, gets cleaned up, and has new foam/cloth glued to it and 
wrapped around its edges.  Then reinstall.

You can save a lot by taking it out and reinstalling it yourself.

> As for the headliner construction -- I happen to have a
> new headliner rat-holed from years ago -- it seems to
> be built in layers: (1) cloth (2) soft foam backing and (3)
> what appears to be fiberboard about 2-2.5 mm thick.
> I can't tell if there is a vinyl core to that layer. It didn't
> come with any adhesive orange foam stuff so I don't know
> whether I'll need a big square of sticky, double-sided
> stuff to install the liner or not. I'm thinking not since, if
> memory serves, the Bentley calls out the use of magic
> Audi contact cement.

I could see the larger car maybe needing that glue to help.  I suspect 
any decent contact cement applied properly would work fine, though.

-- 
Huw Powell

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