458 Spider headliner removal

Removing headliners isn't fun. I have done it on several cars and usually getting them back in correctly is a chore, if not sometimes practically impossible.

I don't know how Ferrari headliners, specifically, are attached. Perhaps it might be easier than in some of the cars I've worked on. Based on just removing and installing a few leather covered panels in things like the 360 and 458, I can tell you that sometimes it can be a nightmare to get things back into place correctly. Ferrari uses some bizarre attachment methods and I have a feeling their headliner is not going to be much different.

In my 355, I accidentally ended up getting a spot on the headliner and was able to successfully spot clean it in place. Perhaps you could post a photo of the mark in question?

In a lot of cases, you'd be surprised how well just nothing more than soap and water and a microfiber towel and/or sponge can clean the headliner. Also, they make a chemical for spot cleaning microfiber furniture, which works amazing. If needed, I can check the cleaning kit I have here and maybe you can try whatever magical chemical they've got going. Whatever it is, it removes marks from just about any fabric.

The other thing which works pretty great is that Oxyclean stuff. I have used it a number of times, on a Q-tip, to spot clean and remove ink stains and the like. It takes some time, but it works great.

So my advice would be to clean in place if at all possible.

Ray

 

When I changed my headliner to alcantara with leather stripes, I just pulled the two pieces off and gave them to my upholsterer. Snap out, snap in.
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Doing the job on a spider does look a lot more straight forward. I wonder if this translates over to replacing the headliner on a coupe?

Ray