I have the same issue with the G. Here in LA there are headliner repair guys. Some people recover the backing with suede and reinstall. Some camie 313 or any high tack spray upholstery adhesive on both surfaces, wait a few seconds until it tacks up to touch, then smooth it down, spray another strip, repeat. Any upholstery shop can do it for you if you bring it in. You can also use foam backed cloth or glue foam to headliner then cloth to foam. Maybe use latex foam if you want sound deadening; expensive but good or maybe textilene. Original thickness. There was a good upholstery place in falls church in basement of strip mall when I lived in NoVa. They could handle it for sure.
Karl On Dec 3, 2014 10:49 AM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Dan, > > The fabric is glued to a foam/fiber substrate piece, and almost all of that > glue has let go. The fabric is really only held up around the edges now. > I'm tempted to get some plastic fasteners of some kind to rivet/staple the > thing back into place. > > I'm sure from an assembly standpoint, the single piece headliner is much > faster to install that a fabric/bow stretched type of headliner (and time > is money), but these don't age nearly as well. > > I'm skeptical that the old glue can be cleaned off without damaging either > the fabric or the substrate, and I'm even more skeptical that I could > neatly align and re-glue the fabric, and get it to stick into all the > valleys on the contoured substrate. I'll bet it was originally applied > using a large vacuum table. > > Looking at the service manual for the stretch-type headliner on the earlier > cars, it doesn't look like it would be very easy to retrofit. The pictures > on the CD version of the FSM are terrible - does anyone have a paper copy? > > -Max > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
