Hello everybody,

I'm trying to upholster the GP headlining / ceiling with new fabric. I've removed the headliner from the car. After removing the old (dirty/stained) fabric and scraping/sanding away remnants, I started applying a new fabric: some decently thick polyester curtain fabric I found at a bargain price. Unfortunately I messed up for not buying true headlining fabric: when I applied the fabric it did not possess enough stretch to cover the sun visor and other curved areas. Also the fabric didn't do a great job hiding all irregularities / glue brush strokes.

So I removed the new fabric, but the contact adhesive I used already did its job (Bison Tix) and it pulled the fiber glass off of some areas leaving the foam of the board exposed (see pics). Luckily I didn't glue the complete board yet.

My question is if I can just sand the board smooth at this point and try again with foam backed headliner fabric or do I need to add a new fiber glass layer to cover up the exposed foam (for adhesion)?

Any advice is much appreciated, thanks.

It will be cheaper and faster to get another headliner from somebody breaking a GP for parts...just be prepared to drive ~100miles to get it, will still be faster and cheaper.


If you don't smooth out the surface the imperfection will telegraph through the fabric (even if it's the right foam backed one).
You'd need some fiberglass + resin, then body filler, sand then repeat.. a few time.. will take days.
Then trying the new fabric.. i'd get some spray contact adhesive, much better than the spread-on type ..for this application.
Stat by pushing the fabric in the valleys (sun visor area, handle area ).. them working on the other areas... basically you don't want to stretch the fabric in those areas, else it will come off in time/heat

aurick86 said:

It will be cheaper and faster to get another headliner from somebody breaking a GP for parts...just be prepared to drive ~100miles to get it, will still be faster and cheaper.


If you don't smooth out the surface the imperfection will telegraph through the fabric (even if it's the right foam backed one).
You'd need some fiberglass + resin, then body filler, sand then repeat.. a few time.. will take days.
Then trying the new fabric.. i'd get some spray contact adhesive, much better than the spread-on type ..for this application.
Stat by pushing the fabric in the valleys (sun visor area, handle area ).. them working on the other areas... basically you don't want to stretch the fabric in those areas, else it will come off in time/heat

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Thank you for your insight. I'll inform if a replacement board is available somewhere.