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PranK Grand Master

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Hi guys,

I took my headlining out earlier in the year to re trim it. When I did I kinda broke this part around the light and it's now no longer firm and tight. If I push the light up it just flops back down and it's driving me nuts.

How can I reinforce the headliner or somehow push the light back up and into its normal spot without it flopping back down.

 

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Whatever the rigid part of the liner is (is it flat plastic?) could be reinforced with some other rigid material glued and maybe riveted as a second layer. You need to bridge the cracks with something that isn't cracked. Not too thick of course. But not so thin that it just allows the main piece to still sag.

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So, the light is in a plastic cage of sorts. It slides into the hole where clips hold it in place. The problem is that the cardboard (or whatever) headliner is just old and has lost its oomph. It pushes up with the light because its lacking the rigidity to stay in place. 

I was thinking about taking the light out and then smearing some epoxy around the edges of the hole to firm them up again. 

Getting the liner out was an absolute bastard so i dont want to do that again if I can avoid it.

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I'm slightly ashamed to admit this buuuut... for my old ute. I had tube of silicone (yeah, for bathrooms...) hanging around and a headliner that wouldn't stop drooping.
I squeezed it into the space between roof and headliner. Propped up the headliner with cut garden stakes (full bogan engineering) and cardboard (cause whatever is touching it sticks). Then left it overnight.

Headliner never moved a millimetre after that. Of course it took quite a while to remove the cardboard completely, but i didn't care cause it didn't caress my head anymore every time I drove anywhere.

My advice? Probably easier to do it the right way by strengthening and attaching properly. Rather than tarnishing the headliner with some terrible backyard solution. I'm slightly older and ever so slightly wiser now.

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Just use some tek screws on it......I have a heap left over from building my shed, I can send you some....hope Pale Eucalypt is a fave colour of yours?

hell I'll even send you the 50mm roofing ones with the fancy rubber ring on them :)

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