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I want to replace the felt headliner in my car with black suede and I was wondering how that would be done. Can I just use the current headliner as a backplate? Basically I want to pull it down, pull off the felt, glue on the suede and replace the headliner. Will this work? I was going to buy a few square meters of it at the fabric store and glue it on there, couldn't be that expensive. I was also going to do the felt on the doors.
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I have no idea, but what I can comment on is that Suede can be heavy so make sure you do an excellent job gluing it on, or it will bubble and fall down!
You can't really do it without taking the entire headliner out of your car. To do this you have to remove your A, B, and C pillars, dome lights, and your sun visors.
Once you have the liner out... just rip the old fabric off, measure the cardboard, buy the proper amount of fabric, glue it on (use strong and high temp spray glue), give it a day to adhere, then start putting everything back together.
It's actually really easy to do... it's just a PITA having to practically take the entire interior apart and then reassemble it.
You can't really do it without taking the entire headliner out of your car. To do this you have to remove your A, B, and C pillars, dome lights, and your sun visors.
Once you have the liner out... just rip the old fabric off, measure the cardboard, buy the proper amount of fabric, glue it on (use strong and high temp spray glue), give it a day to adhere, then start putting everything back together.
It's actually really easy to do... it's just a PITA having to practically take the entire interior apart and then reassemble it.
That's cool, I'd have fun doing that. I guess keep it out of the heat until the glue is totally dry? This is going to be awesome, I'm going to check the fabric store for prices on suede tomorrow and price it. Are there how tos on removing the headliner and door carpeting? I guess I can find them on Google pretty easily. Or once I start I imagine it'll be simple. How do you get the felt off though? That shit is so thin it wouldn't peel off, it'd come off like dog hair glued to the wall in clumps.
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Thanks Monkey. I just got back from the fabric store, it's $30 for enough fake suede to cover my ceiling, it's actually 100% polyester but is sold as fake suede. I'm going to see if I can find real suede for under $50 but might use this stuff. It feels alright. So should I go black or real dark red? I have the gunmetal car with dark gray / black interior.
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I'm incredibly partial to red, but I'd say go with the black...
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