Regluing headliner, weather

[Geesie]

I need to re-glue my headliner.
I have no garage, or shelter of any kind where I could do this. The weather around here is perpetually sunny, and 90° in daytime sun.
Will this cause problems with the adhesive?

 

[86CLCruiser]

it shouldnt, just make the set up time for the glue to set up less. It also depends on what kind of material your using. Regular headliner material will be just fine, suede tends to not wanna stick to sh*t if it gets too hot

 

[84GP455]

re-gluing the headliner is just a temporary fix, if you could you should replace the whole headliner with an abs plastic one that will last the life of the car. I tried to re-glue my headliner and it was a nightmare! first off the glue actually started to melt the backing foam which was deteriorating badly, and there were a ton of wrinkles in the cloth material that stuck together. After taking the headliner out (which is a b*tch without breaking it apart!) I didn't want to go through it again so i just replaced it with a new one! With your hot weather year round the glue will probably hold for maybe one year if you're lucky and you will be doing it again! There are pics of my headliner in my profile.

 

[Uncletruck]

Don't bother, you can't really re-glue the headliner. What happens is the layer of foam between the board and fabric deteriorates, (literally turns to dust) and that is why the fabric falls. If you put glue on the fabric, it will just soak right through it and make a mess, and it won't look good. Either have an upholstery shop recover the board, (about $150-200) or there are kits where you use a rod suspended fabric headliner on the net for about $85-100. I used one of the kits, and it looks great and is fairly easy to do.

-UT-

 

[Geesie]

Actually, the foam is practically brand new. Bad glue was used so it just fell right off within a month.

So if this doesn't work, got a link to the kit?

 

[dan2286]

If you are doin it in hot weather, I think humidity will cause more problems. If you can, do it in an air conditioned room. Try not to beath in alot of the fumes from the adhesive.

 

[Geesie]

Humidity has been at most 50% around here. I have neither air conditioning nor space in my apartment for it.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Go to Jo-Ann fabrics to buy the material, then go to Wal Mart and buy 3M General Purpose Trim Adhesive. DO NOT USE DURO BRAND GLUE!!!! It will not stay up, and will fall within 24 hours. I have tried it more than once and had the same result.

 

[86CLCruiser]

yeah, the 3m genral trim adheisive will work best on normal headliner material. I did a how to when i did my headliner there are some pics and tips on there
http://gbodyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4803&highlight=headliner

that was in suede with special glue from select products

 

[Geesie]

So about the rod suspended headliner kits, this is the only one I found online, is this okay or are there others?