so saturday night i went to a hot tub party with a buddy of mine and as usual im DD. well as were leaving my buddy lights up a smoke and i think nothing of it until a few minutes later i notice a bunch of little ember's everywhere...i jolt my head and to my shock he had put his cigarette into my headliner. he said he was gonna pay for it but when he heard how much its gonna cost to replace it he said "HELL NO" those were his exact words.

so who wants to take a wild guess as too how much they cost before labour (retail, canadian$)

 

$1799

 

800 american so whats that equal canadian? like 4000?

but seriously I donno. 1200?

 

can you say judge judy? lol seriously now...prob like 1000 or so canadian....i think

 

Wow Tell him u want him to pay for a custom made one from like fiberglass or pay for the recover ? I found this link earlier today and was thinking of using some of the tips included to make a custom headliner....

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/how-...t=carbon+fiber

sorry to hear about the loss though dude

 

go to the fabric store, get some material, get some spray glue and do it yourself, a nice ultra suede will do it nicely.

 

$600?

 

That sucks,but its kind of your fault for letting people smoke in your car.I dont let noone smoke in my car.When i smoke in the car,i always keep that **** out the window.

 

I hope your not gonna let him just tell you no. I woul be pissed!

 

oh i am royally pissed. but i don't want a little burn hole to ruin a 10 year friendship ya know. and the price of the headliner is $700 canadian before labour of the install. but ya my buddy is gonna pay to have this touch up stuff put on it until i can find a write off to steal one from and then im gonna have him pay for that one..it will be alot cheaper and will be brand new as well. well as brand new as you can get from a write off.

and im not making the same mistake with other friends so i've decided that from now on no one is aloud to smoke in my car except for me. atleast if i damage it, its my own damn fault and i don't have to worry about having other people bail because they don't want to pay the money for their mistakes.

 

or you could just not smoke...get a better resale value for ur car and not ruin **** either right?

 

I will gibe you some news to really **** you off. I work for a company that makes headliners. We do not make the headliner for the Cobalt though. The headliner itself, no head impact, wiring, etc. was probably sold to GM for about $50 American. With assembly, like wiring, head impact, and other things, the price probably jumped up to about $80-$90. I think someone has one hell of a mark up on it.

 

ya i've tried quiting so many times...and just keep going back for some reason. i dunno.

and ya i know my cost since i work at a dealership is $425 after tax for the damn thing...i know someone is making a killing on these things.

 

$835.84....

 

lol these idiots where i live was going to charge me 150 for the materials and $25.00 a hour to put it in and he said it would be a all day job for 12 hours thats $450. So i went to another shop and he charged me 50.00 to put it in and 150.00 for the whole kit.

 

wrecked 05 cobalt at Manchester Auto, glenmore and 52nd.... call and ask...

 

I always hated that. One of your friends screws up and really.. what can you do? especially if they are one of your best friends..

good luck getting a new liner.. if not, we'll peel one out of cobalt addicts or redsupercharged girls car when they arent looking and swap the two

 

if that was my friend and he said "hell no", i would have beat the **** out of him then put out my smoke on his forehead. but thats just because i am a good friend. hahahaaaaa

 

is there any companies out there that make one for cobalts?

 

thx bonzai i'll call them and ask. me and jamesjjp are gonna experiment with my burnt one once i get a new one in and see what we can come up with. if it looks good i'll put that one back into my car and do something with the other one i dunno.

i was beating the crap out of him and putting my smoke out on his forehead (in my mind that is)

jase we'll do it at night that way no one will see my car lol.

 

Heres an idea,why don,t you just have a custom viynl or leather put over top,my buddy did this for his lightning and it was a total cost of 4 bills

 

ya im currently thinking of some idea's to do maybe put a design into the fabric that sticks out. i dunno yet but its gonna be 100% one of a kind thats all i know

 

go with a charcoal headliner with "GT" in it.

 

mine's an SS but ya thats a good idea actually.

 

Ya i know yours is,it would bring smiles to my face though.LOL