Hello!

Looking for a new replacement headliner in the US. I can install it myself, just looking to buy it and keep shipping costs down. Saw a British website and the shipping to California was more than the headliner itself!

 

I just replaced the headliner on my 2000 XJ8. I took the panel to a local upholstery place and he did it for $110.00. It looks good and matches exactly.

 

How long did you leave the headliner out for? was it replaced in the same day?

 

Be sure to use 3mm foam backing material or the sliding roof will have major problems opening/closing.

 

Thanks for that tip Bob. Do you buy that online or just have your local upholstery shop do that?

 

He said he needed a week because it’s “deer season”. Otherwise, a couple days.

 

There was a guy named JOSEPH that used to come to the dealers and repair shops in a van fully equipped with all his tools.
He pulled the head-board out the rear door and laid it out on the floor. Scraped the foam residue and laid out new head-liner.
Cut it out with sharp razor and sprayed new glue. Applied and smoothed, let it dry a while than did the sunroof panel.

Installed all and then left. Took 2 or 3 hours and was gone onto another job.

After watching how he did it, I guess I could do it but the dealer just let him do all the headliners and interior trim.
He was efficient and his work was very good looking when completed.

He passed away one day over a decade ago. Story was he had a heat stroke in a dealer parking lot working on a car.
Was taken to Hospital and died of a heart attack.

The Dallas/Fort Worth area lost a great interior guy!!!

 

Had mine done @ a local/small car audio shop, $200ish same day install, looks perfect.

 

headliners are boring, let yourself go and fit there fabric with the design you like, choice is immense and you will have a roof like no others..

 

when you say the headliner, do you mean just the fibric material ? I just had a headliner redone by the upholstery near me, I love their work. very OEM look.

in fact the owner told me they are the OEM upholstery repair shop for the near by Porsche and BMW,MBebnz( mostly germen brands) dealership. there are always some 911 cabriolets in his lot for the roof problem.

 

This is fine if you don't care about losing $$$ when/If you sell. Might just as well glue **** carpet to the dash while you're at it.
Some things just need to be left stock. This is one of them.

 

I just replaced my headlinig two weeks ago. Bought it on ebay from a UK-based company. Never did anything in the interior on my car before, and it only took me ~1 hour. It is really straightforward job, biggest risk is that it starts to rain.

Here is link to the ebay auction: https://www.ebay.de/itm/171324319654
This is the tutorial video I followed:

 

60gunner, i wouldn't hope for selling 20+ old car with gazillion of km on it for premium $$$ unless you have a free access to rich and price unwise customers. on the other side it is old conflict of those who must keep it stock with those who just enjoy life, so if rolls and bentley can fit headliner with stars, then what you fit in yours is limited only by your imagination, unless you are unable to go past **** carpet of course.

 

When I lived in Iowa (Council Bluffs) **** carpets were an in thing. Even on truck dashboards. Especially lovely lime green ****!! But, it was 1974 . . . and kitchens were a lovely orange and fridges were green . . .

I found that 3mm staples could fix a sagging headliner in the shortrun; the local upholstery shop could match the stock headliner perfectly, tho, for about $240. Biggest issue was the plastic parts that disintegrated . . .

 

HARVEST GOLD was another kitchen color option!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And Baby blue bath tubs.
3M makes an adhesive spray specifically for this purpose I'd use before using staples.

 

who is able to fix headliner with the spray without ending as a sticky fly trap himself ?

 

Quite a few actually. But then some people can't change oil without wearing it either.

 

have a mercy on those who are just discovering which way goes the filter



on the bright side of oil dressing, everything slips so nobody gonna stick it.

 

new headliner

My whole sun/moonroof mechanism failed so ended up replacing entire system and headliner.

OEM Match color and material