Droopy sunroof headlining.....

[Guest]

It's come unglued from the back edge of the sunroof panel by the look of it.

Can anyone tell me how to get to it to re-glue. It it through the zip at the rear of the headlining?

 

[Beaky]

Mine has also, tried putting some glue on it and folding it back, didn't work so would be interested to know how it should be done

 

[Guest]

Will do Beaky.

I've had a peer in throught the opened zip at the back with the roof open but there appears to be a panel between the headlining and the moving section of the roof. There are some screws accessable through the zip so my next step will be to undo those and see if the panel will move. Another thought is I wonder if it's possible to remove the panel upwards from the top (ie. from outside the car) by unclipping/screwing it somehow?

 

[911SSC]

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[tail_heavy]

The trick is (if I've understood the prob correctly), to open the sunroof about 4 inches or so, then pull the spring clipped front of the sunroof headlining down - this could require some hefty yanking, but it will come down. The spring clips are actually pressed up pieces of the thin steel plate that constitutes the sunroof headliner former. Then by sliding the sunroof back, it should be possible to pull the 'inner roof' / headliner forwards and then flex it a bit to get it out of the car. I say 'should' because I did this within the context of a complete sunroof removal, but I think it should be possible with the sunroof proper remaining in the car. You will note that the centre part of the headlining is held up by the crude expedient of a flap of excess material that pokes through a slit in the headliner former plate which is then glued to the upper surface of the plate. The edges are similarly glued in place around the edge. I used Evo-Stik, but there is a pukka 3M product for this (sorry, forgot the name).

 

[Guest]

Thanks tail_heavy i'll give it a go!......just couldn't figure it out!!!

 

[Guest]

OK here is the procedure for getting the the liner out with the sun roof staying in the car:

1. Slide sunroof back about 4"
2. Pull down on the front of the lining former frame which is held to the sunroof proper with 7 spring clips (as tailheavy said they need a good firm yank!)
3. Carefully slide the roof back as far as it will go
4. Take off the wind deflector by undoing the 2 screws either side and prizing the plastic clips out of the front of the sunroof opening (careful with this, mine were brittle and one snapped, tut!)
5. Pull the liner forwards and up and out of the opening, this bit sounds easy but wasn't as the liner frame kept catching on brackets at the side of the opening. So I unscrewed the guide from the front of each side that's fastened by 2 bolts to the sunroof, this allowed me to push the roof up to give enough clearance for the liner to slide past the obstruction. (This is only possible when the headlining is not covering the frame so dont know how i'll get on putting it back!!!)

Will post how I get it back in when i've glued the assortment of materials back in place!!!

 

[JB 3.2]

Sounds like most jobs on the car that I tackle, starts of as something simple and ends up quite complicated.....JB

 

[Guest]

Glued the lining in place and put it back in tonight.

Do it right and it's easy, do it wrong and it's immpossible!

The trick is to slide the liner in with the front slider brackets removed, push the liner back into the roof recess so the spring clips go past the holes that they will clip into eventually, put the brackets back on and slide the liner fowards so the front clips line up and push them in. If you do it with the front brackets in place the liner simply wont go past them.