Right as you good folks know I now have myself an xf...and the initial problems that came with the car are steadily being eradicated, one of the main ones was the leak at the boot latching which caused water stains to my headliner/interior ceiling...now I've been looking at all sorts of cleaning,steaming options to get them out but then I thought "why not get the headliner retrimmed?" I think the light headliner material doesn't really go with black leather anyway, so I'm curious as to how big a task it would be & if you guys have any thoughts in terms of cost? (or have any of you had it done?)....something I have never had prior knowledge of?.

Oh & may I wish you all a very happy forthcoming new year

 

searched "replace headliner" and see this :

just look up upholstery (your city) and call a few of them, they can and will install a headliner for about $100.00 did mine last year for $98.00 good luck. jim


Good luck !
( I don't have this issue, as I have a roadster ........ )

 

Thanks mate, struggling to find anyone local that does it?....will keep looking though.
Just curious as to what colour you changed to or did you keep the same?.

Thanks

 

Stay with a "light" color. "Beaner" has the Cedar/Slate interior in his (Fast and Furious V8) car and he installed a black headliner. He had me sit in his car at Carlisle last summer, just to show me how it makes the interior feel more cramped and closed in than the original headliner did.
Good Luck and have a Happy and safe New Year.

 

Thanks for the advice buddy, makes sense to be honest....similar to how certain colours/mirrors etc are used in house interiors for sizing effect.

 

Agreed.......lighter colour makes it "feel" larger inside. I had mine recovered, in ivoury coloured fabric, same factory weave, deleted the visors and had all the light coloured hard plastic covered with the same material.

 

I pulled mine out about 6 months ago and it's been in the garage ever since. $210 to recover it here... and that's me removing and installing it...

 

That’s a fairly big job to do if your not use to striping cars down. Lots of odd clips and ways of holding things up .
Not to sure of a cost. When I needed a TVR hood retrimmed the cost was about £700.00 by a company near to me called Trimmainia. So a headliner might £250 to £350, but not sure. Have you tried a valeting company to clean it ?

Jon

 

Every valeting company I've called have said its a tough job & probably wouldn't produce very good results bought some 1001 upholstery cleaner & some microfibre cloths, looked on a few valeting threads & 1001 seems to produce good results....going to take it to work tomorrow & have bash at cleaning.

p.s. walked passed a chap starting up a Tvr today & boy did it make some noise : )

 

Yeh. Great sound. Had my own TVR body shop for 23 years. Now I'm a bit deaf.lol.

 

Yeah it was a lovely motor indeed & had a very unique growl.
Since becoming a dad I have noticed something I've never noticed before (more so over Christmas & Sunday's) & it's becoming a common trend, mums holding child(s) at the door of home waving their husband/dad off whilst he jumps into a sporty motor for a bit of escapism.....I have become that dad/husband

 

No need for this thread anymore, my dad put me in touch with a local 1 man band mechanic who has properly re-sealed the rubber boot leak problem...not only that he cleaned the inside and removed water stains to.
All for the massive sum of £40, well chuffed