Dying headliner?

bmw13 · 06-03-2010, 08:06 AM

Anyone dye their grey headliner black yet? if so, how do you reccomend i go about it? thanks

twin fed · 06-03-2010, 07:57 PM

I work for an upholstery shop and I can say for sure that there is no easy or reasonable way to dye a headliner. For starters you would have to take it out of the car, and if you have gone that far you might as well just recover it in a black material of your choice. But fore most, so that you don't get dye everywhere you would spend more time masking off the interior then you would by taking the headliner out. And because there would be no way to get an even coat in such a confined space. Plus you would have to take out all the plastic pieces that are in the headliner (ie. dome light, coat hooks, visor bases, ect.) to paint those black anyway. So my advice to you is not to dye it. MY .02.

Lester · 06-03-2010, 08:23 PM

+1 Best advice ever. Erase it from your mind. <Ctrl><Alt><Del> that thought.

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twin fed Doc Brown 1199 Rep 2,182 Posts Drives: 2016 MG MT M2 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Isle of Long iTrader: (2)	I work for an upholstery shop and I can say for sure that there is no easy or reasonable way to dye a headliner. For starters you would have to take it out of the car, and if you have gone that far you might as well just recover it in a black material of your choice. But fore most, so that you don't get dye everywhere you would spend more time masking off the interior then you would by taking the headliner out. And because there would be no way to get an even coat in such a confined space. Plus you would have to take out all the plastic pieces that are in the headliner (ie. dome light, coat hooks, visor bases, ect.) to paint those black anyway. So my advice to you is not to dye it. MY .02. __________________
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Lester Brigadier General 307 Rep 3,351 Posts Drives: Join Date: Oct 2007 iTrader: (0)	+1 Best advice ever. Erase it from your mind. <Ctrl><Alt><Del> that thought.
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