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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 07:50 PM
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Anybody ever fiberglass epoxy their headliner, sand and paint it. I did a search but didn't see anything. I am just wondering how it turned out. I had a honda that had a liner that didn't have cloth but was a rubber material and it never sagged or ripped. If this hasn't worked out what has other than reclothing it? I don't like the bare metal its to hot in the summer and the wafer look isn't great either.
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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 07:59 PM
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I haven't seen anyone do it, but why don't you do it yourself and post the results
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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 08:01 PM
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Ive seen sagging headliners cut and pulled tight, then fiberglassed. It will look funny if its an off road rig with a heavy smooth show car headliner(picture candy orange paint lol) honestly though if its sagging like mine carefully removing it and removing the clothe wont be hard. Then just spray glue it and pick up some light clothe from a joann fabric kinda place and cut and attach new clothe and bolt back up. you can put faux leather or something simple and cheap. Ive seen people use flags spray glued up(not the american flag) you could have fun with it and use all sorts of fabric stuff. I kinda wanna use 2/3 pirate flags and redo mine.

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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 08:09 PM
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Ive seen sagging headliners cut and pulled tight, then fiberglassed. It will look funny if its an off road rig with a heavy smooth show car headliner(picture candy orange paint lol) honestly though if its sagging like mine carefully removing it and removing the clothe wont be hard. Then just spray glue it and pick up some light clothe from a joann fabric kinda place and cut and attach new clothe and bolt back up. you can put faux leather or something simple and cheap. Ive seen people use flags spray glued up(not the american flag) you could have fun with it and use all sorts of fabric stuff. I kinda wanna use 2/3 pirate flags and redo mine.

Done the recloth on a few of my older vehicles was a pain in the back side and I always wish I woulda done something else. If I can come up with the money I guess I'll epoxy it paint it and post the results.
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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Hopin4aboat
Done the recloth on a few of my older vehicles was a pain in the back side and I always wish I woulda done something else. If I can come up with the money I guess I'll epoxy it paint it and post the results.
I suppose but considering some headliners run 200-400 dollars its worth it in my mind.
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Old Nov 11, 2012 | 02:22 PM
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i used bed liner on mine
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Old Nov 11, 2012 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Lewark
i used bed liner on mine
thinking about doing that, how hard was it? price costs, and got any pics?
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Old Nov 11, 2012 | 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Hopin4aboat
Anybody ever fiberglass epoxy their headliner, sand and paint it. I did a search but didn't see anything. I am just wondering how it turned out. I had a honda that had a liner that didn't have cloth but was a rubber material and it never sagged or ripped. If this hasn't worked out what has other than reclothing it? I don't like the bare metal its to hot in the summer and the wafer look isn't great either.
I actually just finished it about three days ago one my gf Jeep. I originally wanted to fiberglass the whole thing but decided to only glass the broken pieces and just resin the sides and light hole areas. I scraped the foam off like everyone has said to but I took off the old glue layer off to, then sanded it and feathers the glass and resin areas and any high spots. I used a lightweight fleece material and the locktite professional 300 heavy adhesive spray. Rinsed and dry the fleece, laid the farbic out then folded in half,sprayed the headboard in even overlapping spray, then applied to the fabric. Used a foam roller and started from the middle and worked out, did the same to other side and cut off about 2"/3" strip all the way around sprayed it on and folded it over.
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Old Nov 11, 2012 | 09:02 PM
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More pics app crashed
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 10:27 AM
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It was really easy to do just scraped off the foam stuff then used the aerosol bed liner to do a few coats and then went over it in some left over herculiner. Gives it a tough look I'll post pictures when i get to the computer.
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