Classic VW BuGs How to Install Volks Multi-Piece Beetle Headliner Pt.4 of 6

all right so we're up to the back window now this is probably the hardest part of the the headliner restoration you see we got the big square piece that we're gonna have to put back too as you notice it's got a ton of wrinkles on it because you can see that they folded it up and stuffed it into the shipping box so we're gonna just iron this out a little bit just try to get some of the main wrinkles out of it soften it up a little before we start installing again if you have the TMI kit most likely TMI is gonna give you the top section of the window and then a separate piece for the bottom part of the window so I'll be a little bit easier for you to put in using that kit but originally the oval windows up to 59 were actually 62 beetles they would have had the one piece kit 63 again final headliner they would have had it sewn down at the bottom portion of the window so we're just gonna do a little ironing right now if you do have the vinyl headliner whether it's you're using it for your oval or whatnot don't use the iron of course on the vinyl use the hairdryer now we have it on a cotton setting so if you do have settings on your iron we set it to cotton it seems to be getting the most of the wrinkles out so what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna just kind of do a trial fit here just to kind of Center the material over the back window okay you want to make sure you're even on both sides you don't want too much material on one side to go into the grippers and not enough on the other now when we're gonna glue this you want to make sure you have a good I don't know half inch to three quarters of an inch overlap from this top lip here the top Ridge because this has to get tucked if you can see that behind okay the top piece here a lot of guys will actually glue it to here I personally don't think that was meant to be it was meant to be glued behind it you want a nice uniform look okay so that's what we're gonna try to achieve so basically we're to start by gluing the up here the material actually will get glued to the top part of this felt and then we're gonna get some clips that I told you that we had to pick up then I even got a couple coolers with some cork back and you can just use a standard ruler and what we're gonna do is I'm gonna try I'm gonna tuck this material down in here behind the firewall to kind of keep it straight I'll show you as we go along but uh just make sure you have your scissors your razors your your clips in order so and your glue of course okay try to Center it up don't worry if you're a little off you can always pull it off okay like half inch on top if you want to put your clips up here you can I usually just put the glue down and it seems to be okay just kind of go straight across make sure it's even I'm just trying to get a uniform up here you know so we have a nice pull when we start moving downward and what I'm gonna do is a little bit of glue on this inside part of the material put it on low and go easy what we want to do is eventually tuck it back here behind this to this piece here and we want it to glue nice and tight here so later on when we put the top headliner piece in its not going to bunch up on it so just be careful just go lightly just get this book I'll put it in there I want to find the bottom here see where the firewall comes up I'm gonna make this pretty tight like a drum almost so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put my rulers in here if any 12-inch ruler will work the wooden ones are fine the old-school rulers are fine this kind of tuck them in there get them in there nice okay now we're gonna want to do is get our clips and start pulling these tight to the sides over here and just clip a couple spots okay all right so I got a clamped where the grippers are on the side I got my rulers down here and I got a basically semi glued up top just to hold it if you want to put the clips up top - you can but primarily that's where I kind of want to be just make sure the material is nice you know and don't worry about the wrinkles we're going to start the massage this down what we have to do is now cut a center slit behind in the in the material so now we can start finessing it up into the window what we'll do is we'll go on the out the backside looking in to see where we can cut all right so we're gonna slit back here in the headliner now just to be safe I'm gonna have my dad just kind of push up on the headliner just a little bit as you see where I'm pushing up here as well you know this is where I have to slit we want enough material to wrap this way on the bottom portion of the window this top portion we got plenty of room to bring the headliner around and to glue to this lip okay so you see we got plenty of room to grab here and then we got plenty of room for this portion on the bottom okay what we want to do before actually I get back into the car I want to start spray glue in the lip here with some glue and then start also spraying some glue on the headliner material itself so when we go back inside I can just start pushing it into place and like it doesn't worry about if it dries just remember this stuff doesn't set up for a few hours so I think it's tacky but you know I'm gonna start hitting the material here a little bit try not to cop it on too much because that shows behind the material alright so I want to start here in the center or I usually do a feel where the lip is and glue it to the back look at that clip fly right out glue to the backside on the outer part on the outer lip don't glue it to the inner lip the outer lip is good now your Clips might start flying out which one just did already for us just not and already put tension on this now you know we need to do a couple little relief cuts okay just be careful where you're cutting you don't want to cut too short I usually go from side to side you work your way around okay okay so that's nice and uniform right that looks pretty good now we're gonna keep working our way down the opening small slip grab that out so just keep going around the window where you feel where the edges turn you'd look blue okay just you can move the clips around that's you're working along you know it's good to position them because a lot of times you need to free up you know the grippers you know I used to glue them in here and then as I'm working on my way down it would wind up coming off so it's good to have this flexibility to move the clips up and down and we need to keep working your way around I know it's I got some wrinkles here but we're gonna be able to finagle them out and keep massaging it so we can work it around we want this to be a seamless piece start straightening this out yeah we're gonna see you work our way down you'll be able to get these out so what I want to do just get this clip in here hold that in place okay we gotta take the bottom clip off cuz I know it's gonna probably give me a little bit of a problem towards the corner but I can get that out later okay so now we've got the bottom portion that looks nice so as you can see we've got like 90% of it done I just want to start working on these corners now and now that we have those Clips we could take the clips off and then reposition but overall I think we're there you know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a little glue under here just set this down a little bit all right so what we were doing was this takes a lot of trial and error so we were we pulled this off again cut some slits into the bottom cloth and then we started working our way outward with the material and kind of poked it down here you see I have those implements that I was telling you about the purchase to tuck this in here keep the rulers and then keep that nice and tight and then start working your way up and out to get rid of the lines so you can see here we might have some lines here but I could start pushing that out as you can see with my fingers and then when you see you got it right get in there I want to clip four temporarily to hold it in place now I got rid of those lines and I keep working my way up this was a lot of trial and error takes a lot of time to do this back window but I think we got it so the later model bugs 58 and later you'll have a bigger window so it won't be as difficult the tough parts here are down in this corner if you're working your way down we noticed that you know this stuff is doesn't it stretches but not a lot the Tweed material which I really like that stretch is great so you you probably get the back window done a little bit better but the key here is to go down basically work your way down down and then we started working into the center here and then working out now you might get some creases here in the corner but the key is to dig you know to push downward into the corner and get it behind this firewall to tighten some more but we're going to start just putting the rest of the clips in here and then all you got to do then once you like it where it is section by section you pull this away shoot a little glue in there shoot a little glue on the material and then get your your big implement like this or one of these and start tucking it back into the grippers and then we'll have our back headliner done glue some of the material go light just because it can front you up here and you don't want it to peek through the material okay see now that glued most of our almost practically all of our wrinkles out I think they're all out I basically want to work your way all the way down to the bottom and then you'll have the whole uniform side there without any wrinkles and seamless when you're all done you can basically stuff the rest of the headliner back in does the carpets gonna go over that anyway and hide that so or if you want to trim it off and cut it that's fine too but I kind of like doing this was leave the attention on the headliner put the carpet tucked back in there that'll also pull it down a little bit tighter and get some of these out okay now we're just gonna trim off the excess all right so now that we got the whole headliner set up basically what we got to do now is just kind of trim the excess off here just be careful really basically what I like to do is trim it off to where the grippers are just gonna go down and straight line doesn't have to be too fancy just just to cut the excess away because we're gonna put that other strip from the other part of the headliner in can I get the rest in here push it behind the grippers if you notice too like some of these grippers there's a little teeth sticking up I don't know if you can take a peek you want to get the camera over here see now right there some of these teeth are sticking up they're not even this one's I kind of point this one finger up break right there so I'm gonna get in there with a hammer or what a pair of pliers just easily you just kind of poke them that way a little bit so they're all even because you don't want one you know cutting out one way because the material when it pulls over that gripper you don't want it poking up through it so sweet okay hopefully those wrinkles will come out with the carpet getting tucked back down in there to pull it and I think we're [Music]

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Length: 18min 1sec (1081 seconds)

Published: Wed May 14 2014