Fabric Glue

[jhayx7]

What is a good brand of fabric glue? My headliner is starting to come apart at the very back and was thinking some fabric glue might be able to stick it back.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: jhayx7
What is a good brand of fabric glue? My headliner is starting to come apart at the very back and was thinking some fabric glue might be able to stick it back.

Go to your local dealership or custom interior shop and ask them what to use. In the past, I used a bottle of spray adhesive. (3M makes a number of these) I believe I bought it from an autoparts store.

The only downside of this was that the headliner fabric on my car was extremely thin and that there was a layer of foam between it and the actual roof metal. What this meant was that I was glueing the headliner to the foam, which was falling apart. The glue got the material saturated, and in parts turned the material hard because it was not sprayed thin enough.....but had I sprayed it any thinner, it wouldn't have adhered.

 

[radioouman]

Typically the foam pulls apart. You can glue it, but it will just pull apart again. You might have some luck scraping off the foam, if you can, and then gluing the cloth to the cardboard. Good luck, I've never had much luck repairing cloth headliners. (I use 3M headliner spray glue)

 

[MX2]

Spray can fabric glue

 

[jupiter57]

Originally posted by: radioouman
Typically the foam pulls apart. You can glue it, but it will just pull apart again. You might have some luck scraping off the foam, if you can, and then gluing the cloth to the cardboard. Good luck, I've never had much luck repairing cloth headliners. (I use 3M headliner spray glue)

3M headliner spray FTW!
I usually take the old headliner and base completely out, scrape the old foam off the base, then I buy some matching heavy fabric at Wal-Mart. Spray a light coat of the glue on both surfaces, and as soon as it "tacks up", carefully lay the new fabric on the base. Trim to fit and you're good to go.

Spot gluing an area is a PITA and it never looks good, but if you must, clean off as much of the foam backing as possible, then spray both surfaces as best as is possible. Then try laying the material back in place.

 

[jhayx7]

Originally posted by: jupiter57

Originally posted by: radioouman
Typically the foam pulls apart. You can glue it, but it will just pull apart again. You might have some luck scraping off the foam, if you can, and then gluing the cloth to the cardboard. Good luck, I've never had much luck repairing cloth headliners. (I use 3M headliner spray glue)

3M headliner spray FTW!
I usually take the old headliner and base completely out, scrape the old foam off the base, then I buy some matching heavy fabric at Wal-Mart. Spray a light coat of the glue on both surfaces, and as soon as it "tacks up", carefully lay the new fabric on the base. Trim to fit and you're good to go.

Spot gluing an area is a PITA and it never looks good, but if you must, clean off as much of the foam backing as possible, then spray both surfaces as best as is possible. Then try laying the material back in place.

Ugh this is sounding like a weekend afternoon project. Thanks for the advice!

 

[FeuerFrei]

You can get the headliner replaced professionally for like $75.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

super77 spray adhesive

 

[Rumpltzer]

Auto parts stores will sometimes have headliner replaement fabric (with the foam attached) in a limited number of colors. The other option is to do what jupiter57 said and use heavy fabric.

I scraped off the foam, applied 3M adhesive, and laid in new heavy cloth from Wal Mart in my old truck years ago. The fabric faded faster than I expected, but the project only cost me like $15 and that meant a lot when I was in school.