Volkswagen Beetle Headliner Install

How To Install A VW Headliner

Ok .. It's time to install new headliner ... I was truly scared of that action because I never did upholstery stuff ... so ... I accumulated all courage ... bought some vinyl material (3x1.4 m is enough for whole job) and started to plan ...

First thing ... I carefully measured the old headliner ... and made the main piece (to be honest ... my neighbor give me a hand with some sewing ....
just after that ... I ran out to try it on the car ... to be sure I didn't spoiled something

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after that ... I made the copy of other pieces ... and put them on their places



Now I'm full of courage :)

Next day was spent with nice smell of glue and beer, with variety of gripping tools ... trying to tense the damn vinyl to avoid wrinkles...





aaah ... rain cant stop me





and ... the sweet taste of victory and pride :)







There's some more wrinkles left ... but I need to wait for one sunny hot day ... to fix that...
Anyway ... Now I'm enjoying driving my nice and clean bug without that bad smell. The whole job was done in approx working 15- 20 hours ... in my case 20 hours split in two weeks :)

Cheers!

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Volkswagen Beetle Headliner Removal

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Here's how my headliner looks ... nice piece of smelly rotten stuff :(



I just need to get rid of that thing ...
so ... starting with removal of old headliner...

First I measured everything inside car ... just to make sure if anything goes wrong, next - started to remove the old dusty headliner... on some points I just teared pieces off ... cause I couldn't find better way to remove ;)









Of course .. you need to remove windows too ... that was pretty easy job, cause window seals were in good shape ...




and here is it ... the main piece of headliner ... theres couple more ... but I forgot to take photo...



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Side Panels

New side panels are done

My Bug VW1300 '71

Let me introduce my lovely bug:
Model: VW 1300 - Year Of Birth: 1971 - Color: Orange

It was incredible feeling first time I drove it, told myself:" I will never drive other car in my life", I love the sound of loud engine, the vibrations, even love the mixed smell of fuel, grease, and who knows what else ;)

ok now the pictures: