Okay so I am slowly trying to do the whole interior and exterior black, red, and I dnno what other. So today I went to Wal-Mart and bought some fabric to cover the headliner. This is a very easy task but I figured I might as well do a how-to while I'm at it. To start off you will need basic hand tools, some fabric adhesive, a razor, and of course the fabric (i bought 1 1/2 YD of it but you should get at least 2). Cost: $3.66/YD-Fabric ; ~$8 for adhesive.



So now you pull your headliner out of your car



and you can see this ugly bare roof.



Then you lay out your headliner and fit your new fabric over top of it (1 1/2YD just barely covered it). It should look like this:



Then you want to take your adhesive and cover the stock headliner and also your new fabric, let it get sticky for a few minutes.



Now carefully lay the new fabric on the old headliner and nicely lay it out smooth and watch for wrinkles. Cut away at any unnecessary fabric and tuck the rest.



Now this is what the finished product should look like.



I didn't put the visors back in and I painted where the dome light is. What do you guys think? It was different to me. Let me know if you have any questions. Sorry tried to make pics smaller wouldn't work.

 

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Sweet How too. I think I might do this mod

 

thank you much halfcent

its beautiful!!!

 

sweet... did you have someone to help you? i would say that is a must, or at least it was for me. good how to!

 

no nobody helped me... i did this by myself

 

looks awesome. do you have any prior experience with this? it looks like it turned out really well.

 

nope this is the first headliner i have ever covered or anything, but it is something that i could do... yahh it came out real well... thanks

 

FYI i did this to my previous car.. the adhesive lets go after a while

 

you should go into more detail on actually removing the headliner, such as removing the visors, dome light etc..

 

can you work a screwdriver?

 

Cobalt_SDN i figured it would but by that time i will have something else in there...

 

dont be a dick. i ment for the sake of the how to.

 

sorry its been a long day, i just figured people could figure that one out, but you never know sometimes

 

hey man looks good... i'll be attempting this some time in the near future... my black interior is almost done...

 

didn you ironed that fabric biefore hand? just wodering casue it went from fonlded to straaight

 

how does the light come out?

 

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Mainly for this fact. I would think its a little harder to come out than just a screw or something.

 

Thats hawt

What about the a and b-pillars?

 

no i didnt iron it before hand i just smoothed it out really nicely and used a 2x4 for a flat edge...

if you take out the clear lens there are two snaps you will see then when you drop the headliner the wire is taped there you pull of the tape and thats it...

sorry- you have to take the screws out of all the pillars and just pull them away at the top you dont have to fully remove them...

 

nice im thinking about doing black suade!

 

i was about to pick up the suade but i just went against it i dnno why... it will look good...

 

i hope so.. and i wanted to know what ppl would think about covering up the head lamp. would that look weird or no. i don't use it anyway. its never on and i think it would look diffrent without one. who really uses theirs?

 

ya try it... i have nothing left in mine except the dome light, no visors or any of those little clip things from the back... try no lamp

 

its cool mang. Yea black suede would be cool to do. And then leather wrap your dash and every thing else!