» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 1,716 Views | | | | | | 08-02-2012, 01:51 AM | #181 | Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 33 | My headliner is starting to come loose, but is otherwise perfect. Not too bad after 16 years... Did anyone try to re-glue theirs and succeed? Milt in Seattle '96 318ti Sport no sunroof | | | 08-02-2012, 02:13 AM | #182 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 483 | re-glue? you mean re-upholster right? __________________ | | | 08-02-2012, 03:18 AM | #183 | Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 33 | I mean reattach the original fabric to the headliner board. | | | 08-02-2012, 04:08 AM | #184 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 483 | Don't think anyone will recommend such thing. Just follow the steps listed on this thread. cost should be somewhere int he $30-60 depending on where you shop. __________________ | | | 09-17-2012, 03:40 AM | #185 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: new york Posts: 10 | headliner repair near New York, Westchester anybody? Hey guys! Does anybody knows a good headliner repair near Westchester NY? Thanks | | | 09-17-2012, 05:17 PM | #186 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Leesburg. VA Posts: 122 | Quote: Originally Posted by greenie My headliner is starting to come loose, but is otherwise perfect. Not too bad after 16 years... Did anyone try to re-glue theirs and succeed? | Saw this referenced yesterday: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...&postcount=108 | | | 09-18-2012, 02:43 AM | #187 | Z3 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Usa Posts: 660 | __________________ Frederic 1997 318Ti M-Tech & 1999 Z3 2.8 | | | 09-19-2012, 02:08 AM | #188 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 1,364 | I've tried the "injection process" mentioned above several times over the year with different cars...it never worked. | | | 10-02-2012, 07:55 AM | #189 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Ct Posts: 151 | I am gonna be doing this real soon, found a nice dark gray headliner material on my way driving back up from Oklahoma back to Connecticut somewhere in the Carolina's I think. got some high temp spray glue and gonna take a wack at it later this week... already pulled the board and removed the already poorly re-done fabric off of it. I'll let you know how it goes and post some pics of how the new one looks when I am done. | | | 09-24-2013, 09:23 PM | #190 | Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: San francisco, CA USA Posts: 1 | Has anyone had the headliner successfully replaced in the Northern California area? If so can you supply the name of the shop and the cost? | | | 10-03-2013, 02:59 AM | #191 | Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bouncing off the rev limiter in CT! Posts: 3,156 | I "fixed" mine a while ago, but never posted it here. I pulled it out, scrubbed the foam off with a dry scrub brush, acetone washed the glue residue off, and then painted it with semi-gloss black. Poped it back in and it will never sag. I MAY cover it with something later, but honestly it looks just fine as a cluster of threads up there... It DID take a lot of paint to make it solid black with no streaks. A full size auto paint sprayer makes a lot of sense if you have one. The a-pillar covers just got the (purple) fabric pulled off, and that's it- done. The clips are in bad shape so I might splurge on some new covers... | | | 10-23-2013, 08:45 PM | #192 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Georgia Posts: 595 | Quote: Originally Posted by Hwy1Strat All I did not have to remove the moonroof assembly (just the metal panel) or headliner to remove the fabric shuttle. After looking at several write-ups and photos here's how I did it. 1. Press the moonroof "back button" to move the sunroof by an 1/8th of an inch, this releases the fabric shuttle from the actual metal roof panel. You will have to move it front and back to find the "sweet" spot. You should be able to move the fabric shuttle easily. IF NOT then you haven't found the sweet spot. (Optional, Remove the fabric covered trim "welt" the surrounds the opening) 2. Push the fabric shuttle far enough back into the roof to expose three 17mm nuts holding the metal sunroof panel in place. These are on the black metal assembly that lifts the moonroof at the rear when it's in the "vent" position. Unbolt those. 3. Unscrew the T20 screws along the front edge of the sunroof on each side....and push back the pin. The pin is cast part of the cadmium plated front pivot arm that the T20 screws thread into. They detent onto the angle bracket on the metal moonroof about 1 inch in front of the T20 torx screws (they are tricky to get at). This free's the moonroof from the car. lift it out carefully. I put towels on the roof to keep from accidentally scratching anything. 4. From the top, slide the fabric shuttle back forward to expose all 10 (5 on each side) of the T20 screws along the guide rails that hold the sides of the fabric shuttle. Remove those and remove the fabric shuttle from the top. Assembly is the reverse procedure. Notes: Getting the front pivot cadmium plated arms to locate / detent back into the moonroof was a bit of a pain. It took a flat head screw driver and a lot of patience but I was able to get it. The trick is to locate and get one side partially screwed in but not tight. Then you can still move the moonroof to get the other side in. Small fingers help. There is no need to remove the entire moonroof cassette assembly to recover your headliner. If you do the procedure above you won't need to re-adjust the roof to get a good seal. It should mount exactly the same as it came out. A side note, I had to use denatured alcohol, a razor scraper, blue shop paper towels, and a lot of patience to remove all the adhesive from the factory headliner fabric on the shuttle. Took about 3 hrs for everything including putting the new tweed on the fabric shuttle and getting it back in. I only did the fabric shuttle today. I did the fabric shuttle first because I didn't have enough time to complete the whole job this weekend. Next weekend I will complete the entire headliner. I am re-covering them in a silver "heather gray" style tweed. It looks very nice. I will re-cover all the pillars, not just the front A pillars. It should look great. I will post photos when I get it all completed. ~M Rench~ | Trying to remove the moonroof and fabric shuttle with no luck. I cannot seem to find the sweet spot. My fabric shuttle peeled off and I need to clean all the adhesive and re-upholster it. Is the moonroof supposed to be opened only about 1/8" from the front to get the sweet spot? Thanks. __________________ 1996 Ti 280k miles and still going.... 1993 964 - holding on to this one 2001 Burban, 240k miles 2018 Suburban Z71 | | | 10-24-2013, 12:07 AM | #193 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Georgia Posts: 595 | Success after the nth time. Time to pull the moonroof and shuttle. __________________ 1996 Ti 280k miles and still going.... 1993 964 - holding on to this one 2001 Burban, 240k miles 2018 Suburban Z71 | | | 10-24-2013, 01:00 AM | #194 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Georgia Posts: 595 | Pictures for reference. 1. Shuttle free to pull back 2. Shuttle pulled back exposing the 3 x 17mm hex nuts securing the moonroof. I will pull it out this weekend and clean up the glue remnants. I have not decided what to do with it. I am thinking about just painting the underside gray but we'll see. __________________ 1996 Ti 280k miles and still going.... 1993 964 - holding on to this one 2001 Burban, 240k miles 2018 Suburban Z71 Last edited by bazar01; 07-10-2017 at 01:44 PM. | | | 10-24-2013, 11:29 PM | #195 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Georgia Posts: 595 | The circled screw is the passenger side T20 screw that has to be removed to release the moonroof top. Once the screw is off, get a pick tool or a long slender screw driver and poke it thru the screw hole and push the cad plated mounting plate to release the detent or locating pin. Once both sides are free, just lift the moonroof up and over the roof. __________________ 1996 Ti 280k miles and still going.... 1993 964 - holding on to this one 2001 Burban, 240k miles 2018 Suburban Z71 Last edited by bazar01; 07-10-2017 at 01:44 PM. | | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |