[V8] Headliner Fell

[Kent McLean]

FreddyP wrote:
> What is the common wisdom in fixing the falling headliner problem these
> days.  

The headliner is fabric glued to some foam that in turn is glued to
a cardboard liner (at least on the 200s). It's the foam that gives.
You can't slice a hole in the fabric and glue it back up, as your
only gluing it to the failing foam. The only real fix is to remove
the headliner and replace it.

Caution. That foam is sticky. It'll fall off in pieces and stick to
everything in the car, every nook and cranny. Then you still have
sticky foam to scrape off the cardboard.

The best option is to remove the headliner in one piece (after first
removing interior trim pieces that are in the way). Then you can strip
the fabric off the cardboard, clean up the cardboard without cranking
your neck, recover it (or have a local upholstery shop re-cover it),
and reinstall the liner.

Or just right a check and have the local upholster shop do the
whole thing.

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"