Hello! A friend of mine is looking at a 1980 208 GT4, which has a sagging headlining. How does one remove the headlining and is there a "done way" to reglue it? Also, where the openings in the trailing edge of the roof at some point during the production deleted? This car doesn't have them, but there also doesn't seem to be any filler etc. covering them. Thanks Esben
I can't say I'm familiar with the GT4. On my 1982 308 the foam backing disintegrated over time. I removed it. Cleaned out all the old foam. I then glued in new foam and glued the headliner back in. I used 3m Headliner Adhesives 38808. This works great but there isn't much fudge factor its sticks hard and fast. People often mistakenly use 3m 77 spray adhesive. This product won't work and one good hot day will cause the headliner to sag.
Thanks! Ist the headlining glued directly to the roof, or is there "cardboard" or similar as a carrier? Cheers Esben
Here is my experience with several caveats. The headliner itself is made up of several layers of material thermo-welded together in a manner to simulate stitching running front to rear. My car has a factory sunroof, the rear section was glued to the roof, more accurately to the box that the sunroof slides into, the sunroof has it's own headliner. At this point in time the headliner backing will no doubt fall apart when pulled loose from whatever it's attached to. On my car the edges were "glued" to the frame rail (round tube) that runs above the windows at the intersection with the roof. It was "glued" with fist size gobs of black silicone, obviously a hack job by the body shop that painted the car sometime before my ownership. Here are some photos of my car's headliner that may give some insight to what's up in there. A non sunroof (normal) car may be different. The ribbed panel at the roof is actually the box that the sunroof slides into, note that a sunroof car's headliner is even with the top of the rear window so there is no interior light there. The openings (vents) at the rear edge of the roof were a feature of the early cars but discontinued fairly quickly. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
