Saggy Ripped Headliner How to Replace the Headliner on Any Car or Truck

You have an older car and it's in pretty good shape. The only thing you notice is the headliner is starting to sag. In this video, we're going to show you how to fix it.

Here we have a 20-year-old car and the headliner has started sagging. Now there's nothing anyone did wrong, there's no way to really prevent this. A lot of times this happens because of heat and also things deteriorate over time. I'm sure a lot of people think that you can just pull this down a little bit, spray some glue in there and then push this back up. But the problem with that is the glue is gonna seep through the fabric, it's gonna look like this. That's not going be pretty. So I've seen people using tacks or using staples or even push pins to hold the headliners up, that doesn't look good. We're going to do it the right way. We're gonna start by taking down the pillars, the A-pillar, the B-pillar, and the C-pillar.

You might want a cup that you can keep all the screws and the pushpins in. I like to keep two, one for the back ones, one for the front so you don't just have this big cup full of parts. Sometimes you have to take a little more stuff apart while you're taking some trim pieces off. You got to take the rear seat out or you got to take some of the front seats up.

Once you figure out how to get one side off, it's going to be the same procedure on the other side. Now we're gonna remove everything else that seems like it's in our way from bringing the headliner down like these handles right here. The sunroof on this vehicle, it has a trim around the sunroof. If there's a dome light, you've got to pull those down, and then also the sun visors. Now we're ready to take the headliner out. The only thing really holding the headliner up right now is all the weather stripping on the door. So you can peel that back. Just try to peel it down. There we go. Just give it a wiggle. All right. Now it's down.

Now in some cases, you may have to take the seats out just to get the liner out. We're just gonna fold back the seats like this and see if we can get it out this way. And here we go.

Now it's time for the fun stuff. Let's rip this cover off. Look at that. So underneath the fabric is this foam backer that's in between the headliner and the material. What actually goes wrong here is not so much the glue of the material but it's the foam separating from the fabric. So if you just glue this back to the foam, eventually that foam is gonna deteriorate and it's just gonna fall off again and it's not gonna look great. We need to remove this foam off the back of the headliner. We're gonna use a brush, you could also use a wire brush, or even a wire brush attachment or some type of mechanical tool. It's gonna make a big mess so you might wanna keep a vacuum handy and vacuum it up after or even while you're doing it.

All right. So that looks pretty good. Now we're gonna vacuum the rest of that up. This is the material we're gonna be using on the headliner. It has a foam backing, so the glue is gonna stick to that foam backing and you wanna make sure you have clean gloves or clean hands when you're handling this. I'm just gonna unroll it. You could measure it out, use a tape measure. I know I have plenty of material here. Our headliner is overlapping about 4 inches over all the sides. Now we're just gonna fold this back about halfway. I'm just gonna spray about a 4-inch section right here and on the back of the headliner. Make sure the headliner's centered on your...on the backer, and do this.

Pretty much follow the directions on the can. I'm just gonna fold this on. Just pat this down. So that's working good. I'm just gonna fold it back and repeat the process. I'll do it a little bit thicker at this point.

For some of the corners you might have to trim a little bit. Once you do the other side, then you could do the same on this side. I did get a little glue on here. So be careful if you notice that your gloves have some glue on them, or if your hands have glue on them. Just be careful. On some of the edges, I'm just gonna take some clamps and just put some clamps on. You don't wanna go too far in, in case that part shows. But I'm gonna fold it over and then we'll trim some of that section afterwards. I'm gonna trim out the sunroof, because I wanna make sure that it's pressing really good around there. So just use a knife, just give myself a little excess. Now, for the edges of this, I'll just push these down and then use those clamps again as well.

All right. It's all set, it's had some time to dry. Normally, you wanna leave these 24 hours before you reinstall them in the car. Now the installation procedure is gonna be the same as how we took it out, in reverse. The only thing I have left to do is cut out a couple more holes that I didn't cut out yet. And on the backside you wanna make sure you overlap a little bit and it's gonna make it secure a little bit longer, so it's gonna prevent it from sagging down. If you enjoyed this video or it helped you out, make sure you subscribe to our channel, ring the bell, turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our videos.