The interior of your car should be comfortable and nice for you to drive around in. As nice as the interior is, the whole look can be ruined when the roof interior material is flapping, peeling or falling down. This is not only untidy, but it can be a safety hazard by blocking your view out of the rear window.

How to Replace a Car Roof Interior

The interior cloth portion of a car that hangs overhead is called a headlining or headliner. Headlinings are usually crafted from cloth that matches the rest of the car's interior. Over time, headlinings can become dirty, worn and detached from the surface. Once the headlining becomes damaged from normal wear and tear or abuse, it can become an eyesore for the car's interior. In order to rejuvenate the car's interior, repairing a headliner by replacing it is necessary and easy to do with the right tools, materials, and guidance.

How To Repair a Cloth Roof in Cars

Eventually as your car ages you begin to notice that the headliner of your car's interior is becoming loose and unglued. It seems that it happens around eight to ten years after you've had your car. First, it starts out as a minor bubble of material hanging from your car's roof. As you're driving along you may notice it in your rear-view mirror. Maybe it blocks your vision for the first time, and that is your first tip off that you have a headliner problem.

Headliner

Board headliners use a formed heavy cardboard or fibreglass board that is installed on the underside of the roof. The board is covered with lightweight foam-backed fabric that has no seams. Board headliners are used on almost all modern cars.

Headliners are designed by car manufacturers to last many years. Eventually, however, heat and sun take their toll and the headliner requires repair or replacement.

Bow Headliners

As it gets old, bow headliner material gets holes or the thread holding the headliner together rots out. In most cases, it is impractical to repair bow headliners - they usually need to be replaced. Fortunately, reproductions of some original headliner materials are still available. We can order some new bow headliners pre-made to the original specifications or use reproduction material to make a new headliners from scratch. Sometimes windshield, side, and/or rear glass needs to be removed in order to install the new headliner.

Board Headliners

Commonly the sun destroys the material along headliner edges or the foam backing on board headliner material dries out. Either way the headliner material starts to hang down, looking ugly and blocking vision. In a few cases the material can be glued back in place but usually either the headliner material and/or the headliner board needs to be replaced.

At Sydney Motor Trimmers, we use only high-quality materials and do not use shortcuts. Therefore, we expect our headliner work to have a long life. We do headliner replacements/repairs for many used car dealers and panel beaters in Sydney. We offer every customer the same exceptional quality-work we offer the dealers, together with our 100% guarantee on craftsmanship and all materials.