My local motor trimmer tells me that one way to make your new headlining last is to make sure the ends are rolled over the lip of the board, front and back. Both Ford and Holden do theirs cheaply by just cutting it off at both ends. The heat and sun from your windscreen then make the foam deteriorate early. That's why, when the sag begins, it's often from near the windscreen. Manufacturers who are more mindful of this will both roll the lining over the front and back lips, as well as install a trim piece to lock it in place and protect the foam. Commodores had it done on the back, but not the front.

I love the fact that every single headlining replacement video I've searched is from Australia

Here's a shortcut upholsters look at me funny for doing all the time; those falcon and commodore hoodlining boards are made of fibreglass and they can get wet, so I just hose the old foam off them and wait for them to dry haha so much easier. I'd done so many for a VT/VX/VYI that I got a spare hoodlining board from the wreckers as an exchange board so I always had a hosed and dry one ready to go if I'm in a hurry that day. Otherwise, if the board is cardboard and can't be wet, or I don't have time to let it dry and I have to go old school, the sweeping it through the interior light hole into the wheelie bin trick is exactly what I do haha, although you should use a stiff plastic bristled brush, so much easier. Good job for a first time though, falcon ones are much harder to stick down because they're so dishy compared to a commodore, but you got very few crinkles in the fabric by the look of it. Also the front and back against the windscreens, you should roll the fabric around and double glue it so it doesnt start lifting because there's nothing there to hold the fabric down once it's all back together

I ended up calling a professional to get my AU headliner replaced, couldn't be more happy and it's lasted for well over 6 years

You deserve more subs this is quality content

What a mission man. When my BA sagged, I took it to a guy in Moorooka. It only took him a couple of hours and I don't remember it costing a lot (maybe $200-300?). The liner lasted fine for the next 5 years that I had the car. So I think the top tip is to let somebody else do it.

this is the video I was looking for my 1999 au falcon. Never thought a video as good and specific for my model of car would exist

Hello from Slovenia. Nice job mate. Your voice gives the whole process a really calming vibe. Finally somebody who is not hectically tryng to look impressive.

This guy is so honest and helpful. Good heads up on the glue. That stuff is critical. You did a great job and covered all of the pitfalls.

A falcon headliner is like a VT’s the fuel cap door.

before i started watching your channel and seeing your Au falcon, i did not like them but now i love them because of your channel

I remember watching this video a couple of years ago because I watch the channel, now the lining on my 2000 AU Fairmont is starting to go. I reckon I'll do it myself for the experience. Waiting a week for glue to dry is ok. I'm more interested in being able to make sure the new fabric is in perfectly and then I'll peg and weigh down. Also. both sun visors have been coming apart since I bought the car a year ago so I guess I'll do it all. Great video. Great channel. Good to see the Mitsubishi done.

Pro tip: if the glue doesn't get you high from the fumes, it won't last.

Brings back some memories, and nightmares. Had to replace 100’s of these when they were new cars still under warranty. Just recently did my parents AU using your method. I found a wurths product spray on glue which worked out beautifully.

Dude, it’s night and day compared to before. I know you aren’t a huge fan of a result but I think it looks awesome.

Another quality vid. I should be working but i had to watcu this first. Loved the recap of removing the headlining. The old eject sound of the VHS... just gold. Looks good. My EB Falcon needs ti be done. See how i go for time. Keep up the grouse content👌👍

You did a great job from what I saw. My au needs this done badly. I got a quote from a motor trimmer a few years ago and he wanted $300. I'm glad you put the comment at the end about it essentially being a tedious job and not particularly enjoyable. As with anything to do with DIY to cars, if it's your only car, you're under the pump to get it finished and that takes away a lot of the enjoyment, especially if you've never done it before. Like everything, you can't beat the bloke that does it for a living, you can only give it your best shot. Good stuff.

I’ve done it once, never again. Btw unused a vacuum cleaner to get rid of the old back foaming. Makes it easier to clean it.

1:19, love the retro VCR sound effects!!! Keep it up mate!

I used kitchen laminate benchtop adhesive. Works like a charm and unparalled adhesion.

Enjoying your video's. Exactly! not a fun job and being in Brisbane with heat and humidity a lot of headliners need repair. I compend you for doing your own but when I lived in Brisbane I got my BF repaired for $250.

You at least tackled this unpleasant job head on and got a perfectly good result for that car. I was fortunate enough to find a good one at a self serve wrecker for my NC and managed to wrestle it through the front doors of the two cars. I used my little Laser to bring it home as the LPG tank in the Fairlane precluded use of the 60/40 split fold rear seat. The edges were abit frayed by the time I had forced it in three cars but the trim hides all that and it looks beautiful 3 years later.

EXCELLENT Job, Especially for your First time. It look's like a Professanal dod it, and you saved a TON of money. Keep up the Great Work, Don. California, U. S. A..

I watched this video several times as the hood lining has come down in my VE Commodore.I was contemplating to do this myself but i do not feel comfortable with this job.Must say you did a great job on yours.

God, your production quality is unreal. Keep it up

Love the video mate! I attempted to do my territory turbos head lining and gave up. My mate runs a interior trimming buisness and loaded his ute up and came and fixed it right away. He used a spray adhesive with a pressure gun. He had the hoodlining in the car and looking perfect within 2 hours. Just had to leave the windows down in the garage every night for a few days as the glue he used was quite strong. But looks brand new now!!

Really appreciate your videos mate, I have a Commodore with a saggy headliner so I'm gonna have a crack at mending it sometime too, cheers for the tips here. As many have said before, your content is quality - keep it up!

Top notch ....my AU has the same issue but hasn't properly sagged yet ..will have to do it one day and this helps a lot...Your videos are awesome....Thanks....My AU is a Series 2 Futura..I love the old bird ...

My family had a Magna with a bad headliner. We fixed it by using drawing pins to hold it up in a cool pattern in the roof. Good video👍

Thankfully my Chevy Sonic has fabric headliner, it doesn't suffer from this problem but it as pain to clean and not damage it.

the single most useful video on youtube

Interesting video mate can't help but to click and watch everyone you put up ✌️

Really interesting hearing your comments at the end, I'd already made my mind up of "ohhhh that looks great, but oh my it looks like a painful job"

More keen to try doing this in my au fairlane now, got super lucky with my falcon au wagon as found a mint redone one at the wreckers and scored it for $30.

great work...I wouldn't have the patience for it, so hats off for pushing through 👏👏👏

As always your presentation is crisp and on point, well done again. Back in the 70's we used to replace a perfectly good headliner covering for fun after a custom paint job, and usually with a color that would now make one gag, usually some wannabe 60's theme......i am astonished at your first attempt and success. i would add...use a spray (Alcolin) or other acid free adhesive, definitely use a paint roller to apply the new material and rather remove and replace via the tailgate if you can (drop the rear seating) By the way i am the proud owner of a '99 Fairmont, you might want to do a presentation on replacing the rear door locking servo's, mine packed up and i believe it is a fairly common issue.

As soon as you said you're going to use Quick Grip I said NOO the glue is crap, don't use 3M either. I never let it dry for a week tho, a few days maybe. At first, it sticks but after about 2 or 3 months it fails. I hope you were more successful than me. I have not done the headliner yet only door trims and I now use High-Temperature Contact Adhesive HTA1000 but it needs to be used outside or in a well-ventalated area. From my failed attempts with door trims even with HTA1000 I have not attempted to do a headliner yet but I am going to try one soon on a wagon and I needed to see this so thanks heaps for making this clip.

yeah, I had the harem tent set up for a while, and clogged up a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the broken down foam.

When removing the roof lining from my BA I just used a Karcher to remove the foam. Was a lot simpler than using a scraper. It didn't take very long and was very thorough. Then I just sprayed the lining using a couple of cans of light grey spray paint from Mitre 10 .... Thanks for the video ~(,, ,,">

Great job. They are quite easy to do. To get the foam off just use a hand wire brush for the glue you need contact adhesive it’s yellow in colour and needs to be sprayed on both sides leave till they both go tacky then put together :). And only do one half at a time

I worked at Johnson control in thomastown making headlines for the vt-vz commodore range, the Mitsubishi 380 and the Toyota camry and Avalon, shame the factory closed in 07.the foam was always the weakest part of the liner.

Just watched this au head linning replacement you done Shaun, WELL DONE BRO👍🏾just like a professional would do it👏🏾👏🏾

Well done another top job 👍

Great video...Did it during lockdown on my BA wagon...used silicone and a little roller and rolled the edges over...tedious...but was quoted $400 for it.. ended up getting the fabric for my wagon and 2 utes for $120 off ebay...and 3 tubes of silicone and done...might try the next one with a notched spreader next time...

What a bobby dazzler! Nice work.

You are more patient than me. Just recently i ended up paying a local guy that does headliners for my nc fairlane. It was $220 well spent. He did a great job and saved me the stress of stuffing it up and paying him to fix it anyway 🤣. Well done though

+1 for VCR effects :)

My AU Xr8 is starting to sag was well, although not as bad as yours. I've used grey drawing pins in a couple of key spots to keep it out of the way. Am planning to respray the car as the roof clear coat is just starting to go & was going to redo the headliner at that point in time. To do it myself looks a bit challenging. Great video by the way.

Gernied the foam on mine - worked very well.

One thing I'd point out is you can be pretty brutal with the headliner itself, it's a fibre composite and it's incredibly flexible - keeping that in mind will make removal and installation a bit easier. If you do spit it, it'll be near the edges and probably only tiny - just use a bit of fabric tape to repair and it'll be sweet.

love your work

Good work mate! I wouldn't have the patience!

That was a great job - very professional. My roof lining started to drop in my BA Fairlane - I paid a guy to do it as he had more knowledge than I - I see you went over the front and rear edges (Ford and Holden did not do this when making their cars). My shade of roof fabric was slightly a darker grey, but still happy nonetheless.

I had a BA Fairmont Ghia with a saggy headlining, I took it to a place at Rocklea (near Bunnings) and they put in an exchange reconditioned headlining for well under $200 and it was done in under an hour. Money well spent

Great video.

Good job mate, I appreciate your honesty, thanks

Easiest way to fix a Australian car sagging head lining is to get the offending 19 to 21 year old car, sell it on market place or gumtree and then buy yourself a 33 year old Japanese import that will have immaculate interior. ;) FYI, I bought a cheap highly defectable AU as a daily while I try to get my dead stock perfectly fine defected import off of defect.

Looks fantastic. Well done mate.

Nice work, thank you.

Tons of good info here thanks. Did mine with permatex spray adhesive, but it came a bit loose in one spot because I pulled the fabric too taut in one area.

I have done this with 2 x AU wagons, which is a lot of real estate to deal with. I tried to get replacements from wreckers, but all the head liners have the same issue, due to the foam backing crystallising (maybe time to stop using foam backed headliner car manufacturers). The main issue is that although you may be able to get most of the old foam off the shell, the old contact adhesive remains, and contact adhesive hates sticking to old contact adhesive. 3M 74 is a foam adhesive spray that is pretty good, but whatever you use, unless you get a solvent and remove the old glue, the bond won't be great. Gap in the market for non foam backed headliner !!!!

Good job👍

Good as gold mate

Sweet mother Jesus!!!... I'm glad I paid $185 to get someone else to do it...You did do a great job though

would have given the centre interior light lens a quick wipe with a cloth, and replaced bulb with LED

Extremely well explained good work! Thanks

If the manufacturers would go back to serviceability rather than redundancy we'd be much happier. Older vehicles had headlining that lasted the life of the car and the paint only ever needed a light cut and polish. Current crop with clear over paint and foam backed everything deteriorate so quickly even when babied. Good video but the glue is the thing, need to get the speciality spray glue not general glue.

To remove old foam use a soft brush first and than a little more aggressive one for those tricky bits.

A more appropriate title would be, JUST USE DRAWING PINS 😂

this video is on, saved me 500 buks you legend!

Aaaah the goold olde saggy headliner. A classic 'feature' of many older Falcons and Commodores. The headliner in my BF Fairmont is on it's way out. It's only at the edges, so not serious enough for replacement yet.

Top job. Maybe the non water based Quick Grip would have been better. Never done a headliner but have done several underbonnet insulation’s. It was suggested to me that even though the replacement bonnet liners are self adhesive, don’t trust them. Put Quick Grip Gel on the bonnet and the liner. Always used the normal one, quite smelly, but it sticks. You were lucky to get it out the door, with some the only way is removing front or rear window. Loved Griegs Peer Gynt suite (my spelling).

Water based was the problem here. Definitly need a chemical bonding for a good adhesion.

Thank goodness I drive a 42 year Mercedes, that do not have roof lining problems. But a job well done.

Like this vid. I just bought a Ghia with liner held up with pins grrr. Your info is fine.

Recommend septone spray contact adhesive worked well on mine.

Looks good mate. Great video. 👌

Love this video! My EB Wagon’s front section of the cardboard backing itself has fallen down, not fun! At least the cargo area section (separate board) is still okay...

Haha. I liked the Majora's mask reference there.

1:19 That sound is a blast from past!

Awesome DIY job!

Enjoy your content mate. Hope you see a return on your efforts.

I wonder what the best glue would be? cheers for another top vid, took 2 years for mine too sag again after a 'pro' did it. haha

Solid job Well done

A wire brush makes short work of that foam. I typically use a brass brush as the bristles are not too stiff, not too soft.

Eco or water-based contact glues are usually shit, for anything. Sometimes you have to do two coats if a surface is porous, the first coat is basically a sealer.

A job well done! As long as it looks the part it will do for a daily ;)

Good job 👍

Looks great! I really need to do mine.

I have a 98 Au S/W and the head lining has sagged I will attempt redoing the head liner at least you can get the headliner in through the back hatch

Great job!. I am doing my headliner soon. Will be using Permatex (Body Shop Heavy Duty Headliner & Carpet Adhesive form Autobarn) for the glue. Its a spray can and super sticky from what I have seen in Headliners restoration videos on youtube.

hello sean great work on the hood line looks as good as a new old stock from ford keep the great work up from phill with the xf falcon

Put it in or make a big plastic bag and use your vacuum cleaner to suck air out and it will apply even pressure to hold surfaces together. Saw them do this on B is for build making carbon fibre panels

Looks awesome! Well done :)

As soon as you said water based glue I thought you might have problems I apply membrane roofing and am yet to find a good water based glue

No idea who would distribute it in AU, but there are spray glues made for headliners. 3M and permatex are a few examples here in the US. Going to tackle the headliner in my G8 (really a VE commodore) this week, pulling all the trim and getting it out is the worst part.

Good informative vid. Might be brave and try this on a VT CALAIS. CHEERS.

Recently replaced my fg rooflining, $110 at the wreckage out of a fix g6e same colour.

Good vid, thanks.

Good video, although slow and some what pricey i would use medium thick CA , you would probably need to do bit by bit but it will NEVER come off, all in all though would probably cost $15 or so of CA.