Camaro headliner install

If you decide to do the job yourself, here is how I go about it. Lay new headliner face down on nice work area. Large table, clean floor etc.

If not allready done, mark a center line on backside all the way from front to back. This will help center the material upon installing.

Remove any molding from the dash and package tray up. This means anything covering the raw edge of the material. This will allow you to feel them once the new headliner is installed and you will not make a wrong cut trying to install those items. Take a grease pencil, crayon, chalk or etc and mark the hole that the headliner bow fastens into on each side. There are often holes to choose from. One at a time remove the bows by pulling one side out at a time.

Leave the bows in the headliner if still installed. If not, see step number 6. If there are clips in the center of that bow, remove the bow from them first and then the sides will remove easier. Upon removing each bow, install it into the new headliner listing it came out of. When all bows are installed Cut listing back to show about an inch or so of each bow end.

I use a contact cement that I spray through a paint gun. I spray all around the edge of the headliner so that I am sure the coverage will be enough after stretching the headliner to install it. Don't worry about the center or any area you don't think will reach the edge.

I then glue all the contact areas inside the car including front back, and sides. Even if it has the sharp prongs, I still clue it so that I can stick the headliner without poking holes into it in case I need to readjust the material. After everything is to my liking, I then will push the material onto the prongs if applicable. Contact cement needs to be applyied to both parts to be stuck. It also needs to dry to stick. I will often let mine sit for 15 minutes or so.

I don't want it to dry out completely, but I do want it dry to the touch. Remove the screw that holds the hanger hook on the rear speaker panel and remove it slide it up. Remove the seat belt cover; it just unsnaps from the seat belt mechanism.

There are clips that hold the front; unclip them and let the board drop; then remove it from the car. Remove the old material. Scrape the board; with a soft bristled brush; such as a tire brush. Last edited: Dec 10, May 28, 7.

Pics or it didnt happen! May 28, 8. Messages: 4, Likes Received: Sorry no pics, but three clips per side, the tangs of the clip fit and slide in the steel detached rail. There are three slots in the roof line that the sharp points of the clip push into. Since the headliner in glued over these slots the point pushes through the material into the slot.

Hope the helps. May 28, 9. Messages: 1, Likes Received: 0. No amount of post installation heat gun action or time will take out the center crease. Do it before you install.

May 28, This pic shows where the clips push into the roof. The headliner material is over the holes; you push the clip through the glued headliner and into the slot in the roof to hold the trim in place.

EDIT: Only two of the three clip slots can be seen here.