How To Multi-Piece Headliner Installation Classic VW Beetle BuG in FULL 2hrs Archive Video

[Music] you hi I'm Chris from classic VW bugs calm and in this video I'm gonna show you how to install a multi piece headliner in the 1956 beetle now the multi piece headliners started back in the split-window era and went up to about 1963 and then after 63 from 64 on the the pieces came down and they kind of condensed in more to a one-piece headliner and I'll show you the differences there but basically you're gonna be working with either an 8 or 9 piece headliner whether it's tweed cloth or vinyl 63 was the year where they went to vinyl and had the multi piece 64's when they went to a more of a one-piece headliner about stayed vinyl throughout through through the end of the the bill years but the mohair cloth or the vintage cloth headliners were what was available from 62 and earlier so we're gonna be working with one of those and I'm gonna show you the differences now and eventually how we put it in okay so like I said we're gonna be working on a multi piece headliner with cloth this vintage cloth it's like a gray cloth you can get this from either so fine in Texas or you can get it from Wolfsburg West com they sell this type of I know it's it's kind of like a mohair but it kind of feels like polyester in a way so that's kind of what's available that they run about 200 bucks or you can go with a tweed cloth which is what I really like it's more of a woven material I really enjoy this stuff it looks vintage I know it wasn't original to the Beatles but it's very durable it's very forgiving so if you did mess up this this material is very good to hide some mistakes they have these in different colors so fine has these with this is a bone tweed where you have an oatmeal tweed they also have a beige twe they have so find in Texas as a wide variety of tweed colors also with the vintage cloth you can either get this in beige or the grey or they also have it in like a bone white as well Lennie from West Coast classic restorations out in California sells a headliner this is more of like a wool a little more expensive you're probably looking at around four hundred five hundred dollars to get this headliner so you know you can if you want to be absolutely pure ikura this is something you might want to consider but you can get away with the the vintage cloth either from so fine or Wolfsburg West and like I said it's more of like an eight or nine piece headliner TMI also makes mohair or cloth and you know depending on again which company you go with TMI will usually give you like a nine piece Wolfsburg West and so fun will give you like a more of an eight piece headliner but this is basically the materials that you'll be able to get now keep in mind they stuffed this in the boxes when they're getting shipped so when you get this in a lot of times it's all wrinkled so you might want to get an iron when it when it comes down to it - finally iron out some of these wrinkles to put it in but what we're gonna do is we're also going to use a hair dryer inside to soften up the material to give it a little more stretch you know a little more pliability you know just to get it in there better so now also with one thing to consider on the 50s bugs you're supposed to match the door pillars the door posts and the under the quarter windows are usually supposed to match the seat upholstery in some way so what we're doing is we have a blue vinyl seat upholstery going into this car now as an option usually when you go through either Lenny from West Coast classes if you get the seat material from him he's going to give you the doorposts and the under the quarter windows in the color of the seat upholstery and that usually goes with the car to make it correct but if you're not going with that route don't be you know afraid because at least in the kit they'll give you the door post and under quarter windows anyway as part of the cloth material but just to keep in mind if you want to be period-correct up until about 58 59 they went with like if you had red seats in your car or blue seats the under the quarter windows and door posts would be the color of the seat so you might want to consider getting that so fine will actually make these for you if you wanted them as an extra extra option so alright so let's get onto the padding so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to want to pad up our headliner now we already somewhat you know gutted that car already that we're working on and I have videos on YouTube on how to take the seats out how to take your headliner how to strip your car down how do I even take the windows out so you could check that on my website or on my youtube channel you know how to try to remove all this stuff from the car we're gonna just jump right in but what I like to do is I like to reap add up into my headliner on the pillars and whatnot you know to give the headliner more of a posh look and it's also a good sound deadener this stuff I used to get from Home Depot is made by a company called Armstrong it's more like a it's like a felt underlayment padding material I guess they would use for carpet it's like a quarter of an inch in thickness I kind of peel off this plastic vacuum and it's got a lot of nice stretch to it cut it to size and start padding up my pillars and whatnot but if you can't get it from Home Depot you can try to find a carpet supply store nearby or you can go to a textile manufacturer who does cloths and and rugs and whatnot and they might actually sell foam that's maybe in this thickness you might want to use to make it easier for you Jay bugs calm so fine even Mid America Motorworks will actually sell a headliner pad kit already cut to size for you all you got to do is just install it but if you want to just save a few bucks you would you buy just some of your own material this usually goes like up on the pillars like I said or you get this stuff which is about half inch thick this is a real thick padding material we also use this to cover our seats sometimes this goes up into the roof area this is a thicker air piece that you're going to want to use for your your roof like I said if you can't find this stuff this kits out there that you can purchase I think they're like forty fifty dollars maybe sixty dollars and they give you the cut the piece is already pre-cut I just buy this stuff in bulk because we're always working on these cars so if you can't find that autozone sells a roll of carpet this is like a nappy carpet shag hair maybe they would call it it's a little bit thinner than maybe it's an eighth inch thick ten bucks a roll you can use this actually to pad up the headliner as well if you did want to use that here's some of the tools I got laid out here on the table that I'm going to show you what we're going to need and what you mean you can pick up from your local hardware store or even your dollar store pair of scissors of course you're gonna want good set of those I like this razor you gonna need a whole box of these razors you're gonna go through these a lot because they get dull real fast but I like this razor because it just flips up when you take the blade out you can put it right back in real simple instead of unscrewing it like some of the other blades that are handles that are out there by this packet is a hunt just a few hundred of them in here so you need those of course a pair of pliers can come in handy general hammer a rubber mallet you're gonna want and then these high-impact plastic tools that are used to remove body molding door panels things like that this curve is great to put the headliners in behind the pillars you're going to want to use something like this to get the headliner in VW actually use the tool very similar to this to put their headliners in you're gonna want a good respirator and if you can see that Jackie either something like this or a paper mask at least to put on be in a well-ventilated area because you're just not going to want to breathe this stuff in I mean we're in a nice garage here so you know the area at least circulates well but if you're in a small confined place you know the glue smell could actually get to you the glue that I like to use is this 3m high-strength 90 not cheap it's like 1213 dollars a can you can maybe you could find it on ebay for a little bit cheaper the reason I like this glue is because it has this type of a nozzle to it and there's a high low and medium setting on here so I can turn the nozzle and it you know the stream comes out from weak to strong and depending on where you are is how much you know pressure you're gonna want and the good thing is what I like about this nozzle is because it comes out more of like silly-string doesn't come out in a fine spray that you would get out of a nozzle like this which the problem with the the misty spray is that it gets all over the car and you're not going to want that you know because then it gets to be a pain in the butt to take the glue off the body if you do get glue on the body wd-40 with a good microfiber cloth can actually take the glue off the car just don't let it set up too too long it'll just the longer it sets up the longer the harder it's gonna be to take the glue off autozone also sells this Permatex heavy-duty glue this is actually pretty good too it has the nozzle that I don't like on it but actually comes out like the silly string so this is not a bad nozzle but I still think the best one is this 3m 90 that you can get at autozone so you want to definitely pick those up for a headliner you might need three or three or four if you're doing carpet as well maybe five cans here's a heat gun to warm up the stuff of the headliner to at least make it softer if you're using vinyl you're definitely gonna want to use this you know keep in mind vinyl is a cheaper material to put into the the earlier cars but it's a little more difficult to work with because you've got to soften it up and there's a lot of wrinkles that come out with vinyl so you're gonna want to be careful if you don't have a heat gun you can just use a regular hair dryer and that's fine too and the other thing is to your hands you're gonna want to keep your hands clean while you're doing this because you are working with new material so sometimes you might want to keep baby wipes on you know on standby here when your hands get dirty so make sure you keep your hands clean while you're working on this and as you're working on your headliner don't work on anything else but your headliner or interior upholstery because anytime you doing other mechanical works or trying to clean up any other part of the car during your restoration your hands are going to get dirty so if you if you're working on interior working on headliner just concentrate on that and don't do it early anything else also you're gonna need some of these these are regular like I don't know what they call these like notepad clips or kind of like an advanced paper clip in a way these are strong clips that we're gonna need to use for definitely for the back window if it's the back window can be a pain in the butt to put in and in these earlier bugs it's a one piece scene back there there are no overlaps or anything like that so it's a little difficult to get the headliner in back there so you're gonna need these clips and you can pick these up from any stationary store staples or office Mac's or something so alright that's about it let's start going over to the car and I'll explain what we're gonna get into with the padding you know we already started gutting this car and you know what you're going to want to do is to gut the car like I said I got videos online you can see but too take the windows out first I usually like to just use a razor you just cut the old seal out with the razor and that will pop out corner windows do the same thing and along with the front windshield if you want to save the old seals there is a way to push the old seal out you just kind of you know pull it away from the body a little bit and gently start pushing it out the front windshield could be a little more problematic with that because you can jeopardize cracking the front windshield so I usually whenever I'm doing a restoration I'm no I'm gonna just get new seals a new chrome to go in though so I'll just cut the old seal out and then you as you can see we started pulling away some of the old padding that VW always put on these cars they always had it around the back window area like you can see here it's kind of its kind of like filthy it's kind of mohair ish I don't know jute material that they have I usually like to take that all off and just clean it all out usually get yourself like a wire brush start coming off you just want a nice and clean a nice clean surface you also had it on the pillars up over here and overhead here they're padding usually started from back here around the grippers and they came all the way up to about here that's usually where they stopped I usually like to go a little bit further to the front over the doorway just to keep the padding more uniform they always stop there but I'm gonna do a little more and they also do a little bit under just above the window and they put some padding back here so I'm gonna show you how to do all that where to put it and stuff but um as you have the everything taking out the next thing you don't want to do is the oldest sister apps that you're gonna eventually put back after the headliner is put in you know these most bugs all have the these little hooks that you know go over the assist strap and it's a coat hook and they usually had them up you know either over here or over here and you should still save the old screw and what you're going to want to do is put that old screw back into where the hooks go so then when you have the headliner in now you can feel around for this and then eventually cut the headliner material away so you can get the screw out and then you could be able to get these images if you don't it's tough to find the holes in there same thing with the latest style the 60s headliners they started putting these like I said through this big I don't know they're big fasteners that went in to hold the headliner in place why they did it I really don't know but they usually had them over here in the back so usually I put those in as well so just an event afterwards you can feel around for it cut away the material and then put this in and then the other thing is too if you're gonna put pop-out Windows in later model bugs and the 60s already had the pre-drilled holes for the pop-out windows again put the screws in the back area here behind the quarter windows so you can feel around for it to get it out to get them out eventually so you can then put the windows in and that's that's really yeah what we're going to start doing now is uh I'm going to disconnect the dome light take off some more of this old padding and then we're going to start reap adding the car up okay here's another spot back here that's pretty common on the early bugs there's a hook that goes right here and what this does is this holds the backrest in place so it doesn't fall forward when you're doing the backrest on the back seat just make sure there's a hole on the the frame there that has a screw on it to hold a strap in but what we're going to do is just to make sure we can put this back in later again leave the screw in the body there so you could feel around for it and then make sure it's gonna back off a little bit so I could feel it a little bit better there we go make you feel that lump caught the material then take that screw out and then you'll be able to put this right back in I'm just gonna start scrubbing some of this old padding material off I just wanted to show you what we do usually like to take all this stuff off just use your wire brush all right so what we're gonna start to do now is start to move the old grippers away here's some grippers that hold part of the headliner in and again we're working on a multi piece headliner so there's different section of this headliner that you know have different tucks and different positions so like I said there's one back piece area here that goes on the back window and then there's another section where a strip goes in here to go up over the pillars and behind the rear quarter window what you're going to want to do is open up these grippers because you've got to slip in a plastic strip that's sewn to the material into these grippers to hold it into place so we're gonna start just regular pair of pliers sometimes you might need a screwdriver you just want to open them up just a little bit here's the wind lace area here that holds in your doorpost and this is the first area we're going to install the headliner you're gonna want to open these grippers up a little more get these teeth open a little more get use a tool like this or like the impact tool I was telling you about with the hook on it it's got a flat edge kind of like a plea blade and you want to just start prying open the teeth okay just give it a nice gap in here so you can slip that wind lace in now to remove the old one like we did earlier before the video you would do the same thing you would just get in here open these grippers and then just pull the old wind lace out and then you should have no problem just pull it down from top to bottom it should pull right out now as you notice as we go down to the bottom here of this area you'll see that the grippers on this car have rusted away earlier on and the old grippers came off grippers should actually come down to the bottom here to hold the whole win lace so we would have to improvise either using some self-tapping screws or some nails you know small nails that can hold the lace in earlier bugs you might be finding that these grippers are rotting away so you have to kind of improvise there but for the most part they usually stay on the cars so start opening these grippers now so you can get your windlass ready here's the other set of grippers over the doorway that you're going to want to have these opened as well for the headliner to tuck into this was these are a lot easier to get done like I said you just use your tool here you could just kind of squeeze it in there and just kind of pry them open you just want to be able to get that headliner in a lot easier this way let's get on to the padding here I'm gonna start cutting some strips here for the doorpost I'll show you how to make some good doorpost material to make the posts look nice and posh and we're gonna put these up in the pillars in the back window so basically I just get my razor make sure you get new razors like I said they go all the time so I start cutting some strips so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut a strip I don't know say I don't know three inches four inches something like that and just kind of cut it straight down okay now you got your that's one pillar so now I just usually take the back plastic off you might not have this plastic but and again another thing to keep in mind patience with this now we're going to start putting the headliner in just be patient with this take your time you know they used to do this fifteen minutes in the factory but you know what now that we have limited tools as compared to what they used to have you know it might take you a day or two to put this whole headliner together maybe even more so again you might have the kit that's already pre-cut so then you're in good luck in good shape rather but just remember some of those kits don't have the back window piece so you might still have to use you know to cut this see what I'm doing in a minute once we start putting this together do one more strip okay so those are for the pillars you see I've got four strips here for the pillars and I'll show you what I mean afterwards but now for the doorposts I hope we have enough here I think we should let me do the back window piece actually back window was about 20 inches or so I think we're okay there so this has some stretch to it so even if you're running a little short you can always stretch it out a little bit so okay this will be for the back window you'll see what I'm gonna do there and then I'm going to cut this piece in half and this will be for the door posts it's like I said these are about 3/4 inch let me see exactly what I'm doing here actually I'm a little off sorry about four to five and a half inches something like that you want to cut strips like that that thickness that could be some could be a little bit thinner this is four inches so yeah anything between four and five inches you should be okay in thickness you're going to trim this anyway so you don't have to be so precise I'm gonna start by making my door posts there's not much out there as far as people making door posts actually have a video on it on YouTube already but I'm gonna show you here anyway here's our like four to five inch strip of the felt padding which is again like a quarter inch in thickness and what I do is I just get some of my spray glue and you want our door posts to look nice and posh when they're when the materials laid around it so the best thing I think I like to do is just kind of spray this up here now you don't have to rush it's not like this glue dries very quickly it's actually this stuff glues better when it's tacky instead of wet so and then basically what I do I just start rolling the material if you can see that it'll grab let's go slow again patience with this there's no rush you want this to come out right you rush this when you screw it up and it looks like crap doesn't have to look that pretty it's just as long as it's kind of rolled this is gonna go in the door post area if you have some foam foam is okay the only problem with foam is that you have more square edges you want this to be a rounded look you don't want any harsh edges pop it through the poking out from the headliner all right so that's that I think this in general is about 36 inches so as long as it's 36 inches in length that will basically cover your door post area from top to bottom okay okay so basically where to put the new padding here on the doorpost area and now you might still have some of your old remnants there too if you want to keep that you know that's fine but like I said I always take off the old stuff and then clean up the surface make sure it's nice and clean so when you glue it you don't want old glue working with new glue it just kind of doesn't marry well together so we're just gonna get some new stuff get your 90 glue I usually put it on low for this so I don't want it splattering anywhere I don't want the glue going outside the car and getting on top of the body and you just got more cleaning up to do so now this type of glue works like dry on dry in a way so you glue the surface glue the material let it tack up a little bit let it get dry and then you put it on there alright so basically if you want to punch up a little closer here see what I'm doing I'm gonna weigh your respirator now you know this stuff can be kind of evil basically I glue to the bottom here I don't if you could see that to right around there that's what this material is going to end okay working your way down I'd like to kind of marry it real close to the grippers just because you want the material to be posh you know it's got a nice you know surface to it go on the grippers a little bit that's okay it's actually probably a little better for you because you don't want the grippers to show through the material so just kind of Pat it up there it's all good that's it so that's one now just do the other side so we're gonna put the padding in the back window area here before I get here I'm gonna have my dad just put a bag around the back window just because we don't want to spray I'm gonna be spraying some glue here I don't want the glue going out the window and getting on the body of the car of course so I got myself a new blade and I'm gonna be putting this square piece right over here don't worry about the opening we'll get to that but I just want to start putting this material on the back window this VW had the material all back here they patted all their back window areas you know with all-new much with padding so you know just again to make the headliner look more like a pillow in a way and make it look posh and comfortable looking so all right so we're just gonna spray this back headliner back window area just make sure you your nozzles clean sometimes the glue gets all gunked up in there you want to clean that out with your fingers you know just get that out of there so just for the start spraying get up into the gripper areas - you just want to surround this with a good amount of glue try to get it here - and the where the lip is where the seal was sit like right up in here - you know so I got enough glue on there I don't have to go on the material itself I'm just going to stop putting it up there okay it's perfect okay just start shaping it around just massage it in in essence is the way you're going to be kind of put in the back headliner piece in but not this easy give yourself a little room on the end over here where these grippers are you might not want to don't go all the way in the grippers because we noticed last time when we did this and then we glued the headliner in the headliner kind of bunched up on the padding so you gotta be careful just kind of give it you know good maybe half inch from the grippers and I think you should be alright all right so we're just outside the car now just a couple spots I couldn't get I got it I'll come out here and fix but you can see here the materials got to get a little bit tighter to this lip here and then down in here if you want to take a peek over here see the materials not just reaching the lip yet you want the material to end at the bottom of this Ridge so we're just going to spray that and then go back on the inside of the car and start pushing it this stuff will stretch good so I'm like the headliner that's when we use our hairdryer a bit to kind of soften it if it doesn't stick just right away it's okay we're gonna cut this window and then you can always go back and fix it a little more switch your thumb you know your fingers just kind of press it up into place so you know where to cut it so I'm gonna get my razor now make sure you got a new blade so what cuts good find your Ridge or the will with the the window opening is that lip that sticks down look look at that I missed ya see mistakes happen no big deal there we go I went up cut straight past it's all good okay just pull your circle out and that's it you just go back get the padding and straight and we look okay just fix this line here that's a gun this was good about this felt material it's very forgiving you do make a cut in here you make a mistake you can kind of smooth it over and kind of hide the the line where you cut so the headliner doesn't show it but that's it we got the back window and at least a padding for now I'm gonna cut this piece right here too you don't need that it's a little extra [Music] [Music] I think it already here if you knock on it it doesn't have that tinny sound it's got a nice thunk to it so it's a good dinner and that's what you want because the motor is right back here so I also want to point out to you know we if you still have if you if you're doing a survivor car and you still have some of the old padding in there that you want to keep for the luggage compartment just pull it away a little bit because the headliner you want again to glue to the metal you don't want to glue the headliner to the padding that's on this usually the 50s models they have like some form of a horsehair type of a padding you can usually get in there with your blade here that you could just kind of pry it away and get new or just leave it the later style is the 60s they have some more jute material which is kind of similar to this padding material look at material we're gonna use on the roof and they usually have that on here but usually that stuff can come off with just your plastic high-impact blades you know here the putti blades or whatever you want to just get in there and and yank it out I usually put new material in anyway so but yeah you just want to make sure now sometimes I put down a dead nerve like Dynamat or I have a video called for sound insulation on YouTube and I use a product called quick roof that you can get from Home Depot same as Dynamat you basically roll that stuff out it's in like aluminum sheets and underneath the sheet is a nice rubbery adhesive material and basically I've rolled that down here on the luggage area and that stops the vibration you might want to put that down now before you start putting the headliner damage you can glue the headliner to that material because it's not a felt material it's a solid material so all right so we're gonna start working up the pillars so we're gonna start with next after we did the back window we're gonna proceed here starting back here by the grippers I'm going to work our way up this pillar here and the first strip will probably come from the grippers to about here and then we have a second stuff to continue forward but what I like to do is I like to put this in here again it's a good dinner the headliners gonna you know hug this area so you're gonna want that patty that's reason why 50w put that there to begin with so just good start here then we take the glue off your nozzle here a little bit and just start spraying up okay again you really don't have to do dry on dry here I just kind of put it on put it into place and it'll stick pretty well what I like to do is get it on the grippers here I know if you can see that put the felt on the grippers and now when you put this material on you want the top of the material here where you cut to go to the top of the pillar don't go beyond it don't go below it you want it to be actually even with the lip here with the ridge the edge again you don't want imperfections to show through the headliner if you go over it's okay you can always cut it with a razor later on size it down okay they used to have a piece sticking right there so we'll get that on there we'll trim this a little bit better over here no big deal but alright so we did this one side you can then do it on the other side cool alright so we're gonna continue on from here I got this side done so I'm just gonna grab another strip and just kind of join it with this one and kind of line it up with this one you know we'll get rid of the seam but then you we're going to come over where the dome light comes in just go over it for now and we're actually gonna continue up to about here if you follow me up this way see you're gonna put the padding to this corner here of the gripper diagonally up and I'm actually going to cover the grippers as well so at least the grippers don't show through the material so the padding will actually hide the teeth marks you know so it makes it look nice [Music] where if there's any overspray anywhere like I said on the call we'll just get some wd-40 later and get rid of it let's keep working your way up okay good so I kind of joined this seam right here headliner I won't show through that so I think you're all right okay I start stretching the material a little bit down so I can cover the grippers a little too short or not okay good that's the good thing it that's what's nice about this material it stretches and you can fit it right okay you got a section here where me go you went a little too high above the pillar here like I said you don't want this over a lot going past the pillar line you want this to be nice and smooth so just get your razor blade and just kind of tap it off up top you want that nice and uniform so you don't see any lumps you'll see get any binding going on up there with the headliner when you start gluing around wanted to look nice and straight okay cool here's the area at the end of the right above the door we're gonna have to cut the excess off here and make it kind of pull it back so I it kind of goes on a diagonal the headliner always goes from the gripper here kind of diagonal back you kind of see the line there let's see what the old glue was so basically what I'm gonna do is just kind of set it up into place there fold it back a bit I think it kind of a triangular diagonal line sort of thing going and just kind of cut that off you know okay yeah just like that okay cut the excess off here just spray a little more glue all over lap and a little bit down here to pass the grippers you can see that see these grippers here the materials go a little past it see they have to trim that off make sure it's straight with the grippers the bottom of the grippers so now I'm gonna just cut some of the excess that's dangling down here below the grippers you just want that like I said uniform so I can feel the edge of the gripper here cut this off and just go straight across yep okay that's fine all right so just do the same to the other side okay so VW back in the day even used to put some padding right here you can see some of the remnants of the old glue the old oval that we cut out for the back rear window I'm just going to cut this in half and use it for both sides put a piece here and put a piece on the other side and that's basically then it with this quarter-inch padding and then we'll go to the roof and put the thicker half-inch padding up in there all right so let's get to that over here I'm just gonna kind of half this up as you can see it doesn't have to be pretty doesn't have to be that uniform no one's gonna see it the headliners there so I'm just gonna cut a straight line well hopefully I cut a straight line okay and normally it was just something that kind of went here I'll trim it afterwards but basically it went right there and I'll do some trimming later but reposition it and then we'll cut this over the wheel hump here that's no big deal you want the wheel hump clear because the head line is going to be gluing straight down to the wheel hump so you want to make sure this is all clear and you don't have any padding there you'll put well put padding on top of this hump and on the luggage area after the headliners down so just get a little more here a lot of people ask me what are these holes for in the back compartment here actually when the guys were on the assembly line they used to get their fingers in here to get to the molding that attaches to the outside of the car to put the little rubber boots on crazy well tidbit there okay so just pull that away that's fine and I'll probably cut it away from here just to get myself a little more stuck just do the same to the other side just trim it away make it look nice and uniform and now you got some good padding there all right we're gonna cut the center square section in the in the top roof above the pillars VW usually had those cut in different sections you know like they maybe cut it we're gonna make one big long piece to fill the whole inner roof so it's about usually about 38 inches wide by what was it 50 59 inches long that's for the oval window bugs you just double-check use a tape measure go in there above the back window up to the front pillar the front header bulb and then side to side just to see the width you can always trim it later on after it's glued in but we're just going to cut this now and [Applause] okay so we're just gonna I'm just you know punching in the head the padding a little bit tighter in here and what I'm gonna do is I'm just using my high-impact plastic those blades that I was telling you about in the beginning just get a nice and tight in there so we can cut this off and again these blades you can pick up from Harbor Freight I think that pack of five for like six seven dollars these are really valuable so just get that in there nice and tight now when we cut this I'll tell you why I'm so close to the pillars okay back here okay the reason why I cut it so close to the pillar a lot of people ask me you know why he gets so close is when I show you the top square piece that goes in there's plastic strips that get tucked behind these these pillars here so a lot of times the new material depending on where you get the material from whether it's so fine or TMI or wolfsburg west wherever sometimes the material gets tight and sometimes the minute the measurements aren't always exact so when I sometimes would put these in they would get so tight so when it's inside the cabin here and it's from you slipped but the other strip in back here and the strip in on this side a lot of times it gets so tight that the the plastic strip that's on the headliner flips backwards it starts to come out this padding here this close will actually prevent the headliner from actually coming out from behind here so that's the reason why we go tight here normally they didn't ever had that in the in the factory they've actually cut a little bit shorter from here but I leave that here just because it'll hold that plastic strip inside this and I'll show you that later on when we're putting this and you know understand a little bit better but that's why we do that so and say we did it all around the perimeter here up here back window same thing usually where it pops out that strip is usually the back window area or the front because it's just so tight from front to back usually the sides are not as bad but uh but that's about it so the whole roof now is sealed you know is insulated and it's gonna really quiet your ride down you know so we do this for all our cars actually you all right so before we go any further this is what you're gonna need now gonna need these clips like I said to hold a headliner into place okay then you're gonna need a hammer like this regular hammer and a rubber mallet you want the rubber mallet we wrap them in a plastic bag just because we don't want the dirty mallet touching the new material this is now the time to to clean your hands because you want clean fingers you don't want to be touching this cloth to get it dirty if you do get this dirty you can use some baby wipes to try to dab it out you know though you don't want to rub it in there alright so wrap up your mallet with a clean bag so when we're hitting the headliner it doesn't dirty it up so all right so get your glue we're gonna get the wind lace into the drippers now here's what we're going to insert it into the grippers if you have the typical style which is the plastic wind lace here as you can see here there's a they have an edge here that clips into these grippers we don't have that here with the old style which is just kind of like a tube or a sponge rod that goes in there and we're going to hammer these clips down to hold it in place and remember our clips are missing down here remember that but just remember if you if you do have all these clips and plays with you most likely do just make sure when you start putting this wind lace in you're even from top to bottom you want the bottom of this lace to be you know you know not bunching up down here not too long down here or too short up top all right so what we're gonna do is start inserting there's your grippers and just want to just push that in place make sure you're even up top here okay and then we're even at the bottom down here this we're gonna kinda improvise if there's no teeth so to put it there like that and that looks okay alright so what I'm doing in here now is you got to push this as best you can all the way in if you can see here just push it into the grippers so you want that rod in there nice if you make a mistake you know you can pry open the gripper again so periodically once you hammer just hammer these teeth down and while you're pushing in okay hammer these down periodically go back around outside and see how it looks [Music] so I went down far enough for now outside now and make sure our lace looks okay as you can see it's nice and tight in there we're just gonna continue all the way down okay nice that's the way it's supposed to be so just continue the rest of the way down and then we'll look at it when we're all finished so what I'm doing here is I messed up a little bit when I was pulling the I got to insert this rod a little more so I'm just taking these grippers out a little bit better so I can insert the rod or the lace so that's a more uniform look on the outside I'll show you okay so push these in a little more a little more grip there we go okay I think that looks nice that's the way it should be okay so like I said we're gonna have to improvise down here so you have no teeth so what I have to do is most likely put some self-tapping screws in here like I said some nails just to kind of hold it in place but it'll look just the same no biggie so since we didn't have any grippers here like I said they were rotted out when we got this car this car was already painted when we got it we had to improvise a little bit to hold the lace and you can see we put these nails in here that are like one-way nails you won't be able to take them out because they have you know grooves on them to hold them in so just a couple spots we tack them in but 90% of you guys out there gonna probably have all the teeth that go all the way down to the bottom so you just gotta I want to make sure you do it the same as we did up above here so and then what we're going to do is if you want you know as you can see the padding here we don't have anything covering to grippers depending on the material that you have you might want to put either some more this felt here over the grippers here just to kind of hide the rough edge of them so when you pull the material over you don't see any any bumps or uh you know imperfections in the in the material or you can put a piece of masking tape actually over them as well just to kind of hide the grooves and the slots and and whatnot so all right so we're gonna glue the doorpost in now it's the first thing you're gonna want to do when it comes to the headliner itself are the two sides so we got our we got our lace in and we got our padding in everything's ready to go so what we're going to do is we want to glue to the metal surface you do not glue to the felt padding that we put in and when we did put in the felt padding if you notice I'm a good you know half inch to three-quarters of an inch away from the window opening here because this is where you want to glue to the actual the lip here that sticks out the ridge the edge it sort of speak that's where it gets glued to if you glue to the padding that's when you start to bunch up and you've run into a little bit of problem but we're using the vinyl material here some of you might be using vinyl as well you could a need your hairdryer so definitely get that out and basically we're gonna start in the middle here you don't have to pull so tight either everyone people some people think they got a really yank on this too to get it to look good you don't have to really yank on it and also this is a dry on dry Mary here so basically you want to spray here let them let the glue get nice and tacky almost dry and we're also gonna glue the material itself on this side so when we marry them together dry on dry it sticks well and then it really bonds so we're also gonna glue on the outside lip here the outside part of the window so when we wrap this around we get to we get to glue it here so you're also going to need either your scissors or your razors as well so we can make some slits all right so that was a mouthful let's get going basically under the quarter window I'm starting to glue down towards the bottom I'm gonna start going down to the bottom like I said don't worry about racing it doesn't matter it's really not really crucial to get it done so quickly alright so we also go up here a little bit on the window see right here remember the ridges and then I also put up a little bit on here even on the felt padding so I can get the material kind of stuck up there so okay okay now I'm gonna spray the material be liberal with it just go to town on it and get a good coverage you don't have to glue so close here to the grippers we're not gluing here okay let's go on the outside of the car and I'll show where I glue onto the the window opening you had it on high if you can see the H then the M and the L so of course high medium low I'm gonna go to low because we don't want the splatter and everywhere on the outside of the car here so this is where usually a lot of glue gets over sprayed and this is where you're going to need your wd-40 to start wiping away the old glue but basically what I'm gonna do screw is glue the edge here and put it on low okay so that's good for now so we'll let that set up let it dry and then we'll be able to move the material over I want to just soften it up that's basically what we're doing I want to get the wrinkles out want it to get give it a little stretch section at a time that's all we're going to start in the middle section here right under the quarter window [Applause] basically start in the middle just pull it you don't have to pull it so tight you just start working your way down go check see that glue setup so it's sticking okay now you know if you start to get any wrinkles if you got say a TMI kit with the vinyl and you start to get some wrinkles here and it's not looking right get the hairdryer out again take your time let it get soft and pull it again so using sulphides material here so its material is actually very nice so before I get down to the bottom here which is usually could be a troublesome spot I'm going to work my way up now to the window this is where you need your razor as you can see here now of course you can't pull it around because you need to start making some cuts into the material what I'm gonna do is just start setting it up a little bit here okay see the edge alright glue two in the window do not glue back in here you want it on the edge okay so just feel around where the edges see I got this is where I'm past the window opening just get your razor and cut a slit now you can if you want to cut some more you can now you can fold it over okay there you go here's another spot let's eat glue that now I'm over there you want to cut away and not cut in sand I'm in another corner here I have to slit it again here so we have a nice pull what you want no no creases so just feel where the line is the edge right here and that's where I'm gonna cut down make sure you got a sharp blade so you're not tugging okay so now you have some more flexibility you got more tools here basically more arms of the vinyl where you can pull to get your wrinkles out another one here the most important you want it to really glue to the outer edge it's okay if it's not glued completely in here because the window seal will actually help pull that in but as you can see here we put a little glue and we're okay so and then up top here I just kind of push it up it's okay we're gonna have a tuck I might cut some of this excess off that we don't need the headline is actually gonna have a diagonal tuck from the up the upper part of the headliner that goes over this so you really you're not gonna see this part so but I'll show you that later so now I just need a little more glue down here to let this set up a little better it's okay if you go a little beyond where the material is gonna go that's okay just get a little more on the material just want this to bonds good again dry on dry okay if you're working with cloth you got to be a little more a little more careful with some of the glue just because sometimes the glue if you bunt if you put too much glue on you know might start seeping through the material and you don't want that and that's when it starts to look really kind of nasty so be careful with the spray glue on the bottom if you're using the rubber cement and a can and you got to brush it on be really careful when you do that with cloth [Applause] so I want this to stretch this is why I'm softening up the material okay this is where your door panel goes here see this line so as long as you got a nice uniform look that door panels gonna cover this part so it's gonna be able to hide things and the back seat does come down to this point here you see where the bolt is down here okay the back seats actually gonna come here so it's gonna hide a little bit of this but just want to put it down anyway to make it look nice if you want you can cut a little slit there to free it up a little bit okay so once you're all set up gluing the post in here you got this excess here that you got to start cutting off so basically once it's all nice and glued okay it's nice and sturdy that's when you just get a fresh blade and just start cutting off the excess I just don't like clutter so I'm going to get rid of it for now okay so nice and clean if you have pop-out windows going in your car there should be poles already pre-drilled into the body and this is where you would might want to start you know puncturing holes through the material so you know where to line up the pop-out window so this part up here like I said all we had to do is just kind of glue it a little bit you're not going to see this I just pulled it nice and tight put the hairdryer on it pull it nice and tight so you get a little you know a uniform look here you're gonna have a tuck that basically from the headliner down that's going to go from here across so you're really not going to see this from up here remember we still got our two little screws in there for the the hook the coat hook and the assist strap to eventually go in there so that's that alright 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 to 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 top 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 at when we had a pickup then I even got a couple rulers with some cork back and you can just use a standard ruler and what we're going to do is I'm gonna try to 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 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 make sure what good and I'm just gonna start putting it up don't worry if you're a little off you can always pull it off again 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 was 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 it's not going to bunch up on it so just be careful just go lightly just get this book 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 let's get a little more small slip okay grab that out so just keep going around the window where you feel where the edges turn you'd look blue just you can move the clips around and that 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 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 fit finagle them out and keep massaging it so we can work it around you want this to be a seamless peace 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 in here you see I have those implements that I was telling you about the purchase to tuck this in here keep the rulers in there keep that nice and tight and they 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 a clip for 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 tighten it up some more but we're gonna start just putting the rest of the clips in here and then all you got to do them 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 lose some of the material go light just because it can punch up here 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 and basically you 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 because 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 one's leaves 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 kind of go down and straight line doesn't have to be too fancy just just to cut the excess away cuz we're gonna put that other strip from the other part of the headliner end 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 if 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 that kind of point is 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 all right all right so next step is to do we're going to do this behind the rear quarter window and this cos glued down to the wheel hump and there's strips on this material plastic strips that got to get tucked behind these grippers so just kind of throw that tuck this strip back like that so you have a nice fold and then put the strip into the behind the grippers make sure you're even up and down and you're kind of lined up there if your teeth are sticking out you might want to hammer them even again like I said last time so all right let's see here okay it's kind of get it even you might have to move the material out of the way and you can see what I'm doing here I got the strip inside the grippers there we go just slips in there some of them like the strip's come up past the grippers here in this corner I don't know if you can see that that's okay just as long as it's even with this top piece here where the back window is you should be all right but you just want to get that material down far enough so you're okay okay just line it up just get this down there a little more okay I just get you trusty hammer and start hammering see that right up in here grip resist slam down and the teeth are holding in the strip don't worry too much if the grippers are on even what all depends on is this strip that actually speaks its head out up above the grip is just a little bit that's good because that's a straight line so when you finally fold the material over you'll be in Nice straight line sometimes you might need your plastic impact tool here to kind of get it down behind the teeth just so it's even okay you know the headliner comes around and you got your nice straight line there that's that pull it okay I so we're gonna start to do is glue on up on the pillar here first the overhead part here and you don't really have to do dry on dry you just have to just spray the material here we're just gonna spray the top part of this material you don't have to spray down here yet I just want to glue this top portion and remember it go a good half inch to three-quarters of an inch above the pillar so you can tuck the material in them behind the pillar here so it has a finished look I kind of go halfway where the door post pillar is first just so I couldn't control myself okay keep yourself like I said a half inch to three quarters above just are massaging it down that's good now we're going to work our way to the front up over here just to set it up into place that's all okay make sure you've got enough for the bottom grippers to grip around okay so I'm gonna go like that and then the grippers I'll take the rest pretty much just kind of massage it down for now just to hold it in place I got it's where we're gonna start gluing the headliner to the open the window opening basically I just put it on low again alright put it on the L and just start basically spraying the glue in the opening of the window and then we'll start spraying it actually on the headliner from inside here see okay not that you don't have to do the whole portion of this yet down the bottom just halfway into the bottom okay now we want to spray the back of the headliner to where it would glue here don't go too crazy up into it okay I'm going to glue a little bit here on the inside but once we're in the car we can finagle that a little more I'll show you here okay I'd like to start kind of like mid window of the quarter window and you don't glue to the contour of the the body you want to glue push it and pull it right to the opening here of the edge of the window and then just put what your fingers push it up and you should have here a nice uniform look straight down from the top to the window opening do not push I see a lot of guys that push it in contour it to the inside of the car and that's not what you're supposed to do so you start working your way back this parts a little bit easier than the back window of course so I'm gonna get my razor and I gotta start chipping away here yep some guys use the clips here too if you want to I never really have to glue strong enough to hold it but you might want to just make some relief cuts I'm in the corner here you can make a couple slits here just be careful small cuts and if you went in doubt just make sure you cut a little bit shorter than the window you don't want to start cutting into the headliner you're in trouble so okay so before we proceed forward now we've got to do the part over the wheel home next part we're going to do is before we start going down here on the window we want to start gluing it to this wheel home and to the back part of the firewall so we start getting tighter so what I do is just basically spray on the hump so about there and then also inside here the door panel area what you want to kind of scratch off at whatever garbage is in there the headliner doesn't glue to this it glues to the inside here where the door panel will hold it in right in there that's where that it's going to glue and then what you want to do is lift up the headliner and start just spraying the headliner the back of it so it goes dry on dry to the hump I'm gonna also glue the firewall here get a little glue on that let that set up a little all right so now it got tacky it's kind of dry now a little tacky there and what I like to do is you want to glue the material just to the hump not to the wall a lot of people glue to the wall and it just doesn't it's not right you're supposed to glue actually on the hump so we have a straight wall with the material so you just I just kind of feel around with my fingers where the hump is and that's go and you want to keep this straight up and down so you pull this down to the wheel hump okay work your way back okay now you see you start to wrinkle up a little bit here you know you just pick it up and pull it pull it tight ruin the headliner there set up a little and then don't worry about the excess over here we'll cut that with a razor you know maybe better an inch or so away from the wall so you're good the carpets gonna go over this anyway so that'll be hidden now if you got this piece over here this is what the backrest rests on you get I just have to cut this with the razor and make a hole for the headliner to go around it that's all okay so I'm gonna just test fit this to there and just cut should just like to make an X slit up here in the corner as usual slit straightener out you got to get a little glue here just a little bit under the quarter window it's just so this can hold okay let that set up a little want to finesse and get the rest straightened so we haven't no wrinkles what's good is once you start gluing this down then when the carpet goes on damp on top of it that'll also pull it down keep it nice and straight it'll be uniform and all this what you see here that looks kind of messy will bill be hidden okay all right so like I said you glue inside where the door panel would sit just with your thumb so what you glue in there because the door panel will hide that and you won't see it so I just want to get this little tighter down here on the wheel home okay nice and glued glued okay now you can cut the excess off if you'd like you don't have to if you don't want to but the carpet will cover that but I usually like to cut the excess off oh there goes my finger oh look at that huh so you gonna be careful you you should I hate to do this tuck here on the doorpost and where to cut it here which could be confusing sometimes to people in the corner and the front part of the quarter window so basically what I like to do is just keep moving forward make sure to pull it tight but not you know you don't have to yank on it just make sure it's all nice and uniform just to get the wrinkles out and you want to make some relief cuts be careful you don't cut your finger like I did last time and actually use this system instead just get this up into the window okay now this part here what I like to do is cut a piece cut your line go right to the edge of the window just make sure you don't want to cut too far in that cut a straight line up there and then I look over here where the top part of the wind lace is here feel the top part with your finger and then what I like to do is come in the inside part of the wind lace not the outside for at the inside part comes to feel the top and what I do is I just kind of cut another vertical line like that and all I got to do just tuck this basically a diagonal line tuck from the corner on the top corner of the windless down to the corner here the quarter window okay and as you talk see got it and the rest gets glued up into the window literally wrong way to cut that with a razor and that's how you do your tuck on your doorpost and then basically from this point here we have this flat this is where thing goes up into the grippers over the door and now we'll get tucked in there that'll be nice and uniform up in here I'll show you how to do that now okay we're just opening the grippers up a little more here above the door so I can spray some glue in there I'd like to spray glue in there and a little bit on the headliner so when we stuff it in you know it'll stick in there and that's why I also put the felt padding remember on the grippers so that'll hide the teeth of the grippers to show through the material just get you a little squirt glue and just let's get it in there okay they just put a little bit on the material all right so what I'm gonna do is gonna stop pushing the headliner into the grippers basically look inside here pull it a little bit so it's nice and straight and then I'll come out here line it up to the gripper and then which your your tool just stuff it in don't worry about the excess we'll cut that off later so the same here I'm gonna pull it take a peek inside and make sure I'm straight and stuff it in you can see over there see how I got it in here you can see it's a little stuffed in there but that's okay I'll get in there with a razor and we'll cut that and then with your rubber mallet we'll bang those up alright so the last part of the pillar area here before we can finish tucking in in the front teeth usually leave this a little loose here and you got to check we got to do a tuck here but this is we have kind of a lot of excess here so you know here's the diagonal line like I showed you last time when we put the padding in so we've got to do the same diagonal line but we're gonna have to tuck this to get that line and cut that off and then cut it diagonal line in these grippers you can put up my hand so I just gotta push that up just to get it into place and there is your talk okay now this top excess of the headliner now you see all this up here what you do is with your your tool like this the plastic tool with the hook on it just pushing the headliner in all the way to the back okay there you go now when you put the plastic strip in there these might come out again so you could always just either squirt them with a little bit of glue and then you know tuck it back in there but for the most part of pretty much it'll stay so I see what I mean when I when we spoke about the padding up here you want it to be even up there because you don't want it to be you know all bunched up or higher than the pillar because then when you wrap that material around you don't want any lumps up there okay all right then we'll go to the opening here goes over the door come this way all right so basically the same thing what I do is I try to get the blade deep into the opening you know you want you don't want to do it on the edge of the teeth you want to get up in there and to cut it straight across because you need enough slack to go into the grippers to be so when we hammer it up with the mallet it covers it it looks like a nice finish so I'm gonna get up into there pretty deep and cut straight across and so come over here if you can get tight in here you can see how high up I want to come down a bit that and look go up into it you see here that's a high into that's where I cut it okay you need enough slack so now when we bang this up this is all fit this is all there's enough you know cloth in there to be held okay so after I cut the excess off you might want to get in there with your tool and just one last shot just go in there and make sure everything's glued down if you see a little bit of remnants of material in there that's small enough to get stuffed in there you can do that but for the most part just go in there and do one last tap up and down just to make sure it's glued in place and now we can use our rubber mallet and hammer it up basically it just start from the back and hammer my way up [Music] all right so then we'll go on the inside of the car you'll be able to see the finished look and then after that you guys could do the other side okay so here's our finished look there's our tuck from the start here's over the door there's our tuck over the doorpost which is always a tricky one like I said it's diagonal it's up from the top of the wind lace he goes diagonal into the corner of the top of the quarter window and then here's the back area around the back window where it meets up and where it's nicely glued to the wheel hump and to the back firewall again the carpets going to cover that and again it does not glue to the wall where you glue it is into the door panel area and on the wheel hump okay as you can see we also reworked the other side passenger side watch our way up and around again and over the door he looks pretty good there's our tuck again on our door post anytime you see wrinkles that you want to fix again you know now is the time to try to fix it the glue has not set up solid yet pretty much overnight that glue will get nice and hard and be a little more difficult in the next day - to fix it so now that it's still kind of moist is when you should actually fix it but that is that so between the back headliner back window which was the tough part and the sides we are three-quarters of a way there what we got to do now is under the quarter windows here and we got to do of course the final roof this is the big center square section the final piece that has to go in and the top roof you see the four strips around each side this is what this piece is one of the pieces that's always stuffed in the box but we're gonna do some ironing on this as well try to also straighten out the strips you see they're all curved and bent we want them to be kind of straight when it goes into that roof so we're gonna flip it over and you see they have the pockets for the bows and what you're going to want to do is grab your bows and most most of the time the bows are the same size but sometimes you might want to check the length now these are the same size so sometimes did you know you have longer ones that go in the center and the shorter ones go on the ends but for this one they're they're all the same now when we took the bows out of this car the original headliner the hooks were all on one side some of these earlier bows they have hooks that actually hook into those top pillars there so way to keep those on one side and then basically you want it you might want to clean off the bows if they got a lot of gunk on them or if they got a lot of glue or they're kind of dirty but uh just open up the pocket in the headliner on the bow slip in and just slip them in okay just make sure you poking out the other side okay okay God okay so now just start straighten the strips as best you can a lot of times like I said they stuff these in the boxes on the shipping and they get all bent out of shape so the distance between this pocket and this strip is much smaller than this pocket and this strip so the front strip has the bigger distance between the strip and the pocket that's how you know this strip goes into the front the rear one is a shorter distance all right so basically I just kind of grabbed a headliner like this and just kind of get my way in there make sure the front is towards the front alright so here's your bows I'm going to just insert them into the top okay get this one on in here okay that's good okay one more if you don't have bows or your lost bows you can either go to the hardware store and get a dupe or they do sell them at the v-dub so so now that we're up if you can get us view of this now you got to start positioning the bows front or back make sure they're even straight across you don't want one bent in this way bent that out the other way you want it all nice and straight they should be able to slide okay if they don't you might have too much fabric or too much padding up into the roof for where it's getting caught okay alright so let's start with I like to start with the front header the front bow here okay and you get your strip make sure your strip is facing this direction kind of inward you don't want to facing like this is that means it's not gonna hook on to anything so you want this to hook so you want to basically be facing this stitches on the strip and just start inserting it into the front bow okay sometimes you might have to bend it a little bit just to get in okay that's fine now it gets your plastic tool and to help push it in okay good you can pull on it give it a little yank and you see if you see I'm hooked it's not going anywhere that's it and this is why I put that pad like right above the bow because now that strip can't come out a lot of times that flips out and then it's too tight you know the next step is to them then do the back so you want to pull and make sure now your bows were all lined up into the top cuz this is crucial you know you don't want to start putting this in and the bows aren't straight then you can't get up in there so line up your bows make sure everything is lined up right alright so let's start inserting into the top here and I know it seems kind of tight but that's good you want this to be nice and tight and even looking we keep placing my tool get your tool and start helping it in okay look at that yep don't worry about it the other part of the headliner starts to come out you see it's starting to come out over here see this part here it's starting to come out that's okay we can get back in there and push it in with this tool or the other tool now to fix this headliner piece just tuck that back down in there you see it's like that it'll hold we're in front to back now we're going to do side to side tuck it down now you got the bows over here so it might be a little more difficult to get them in but try to get it in by hand first and then you can use your tool to push it in sometimes you can hear it snap in like you heard before okay front part I just push it in this sides going in a little easier of course because we still have the other side the hook in so that's why this is going in a little bit easier once we start pulling the other side and as you can see as you start to tuck it in here it starts to get tighter head learners starting to look nice nice and taut okay so again use your tool make sure the strap the strip is folded in the right direction because it's got to be able to hook if you have it folded the other way so there's no it has no place to hook so in case you don't fall right into place there we go okay I see the front starting to come out again I don't have to fix that but let's concentrate on this first okay okay that's in okay perfect then get that strip in okay good now sometimes after we've hooked everything in you still have some wrinkles as if the material wasn't measured correctly and is maybe a little too long from side to side so what we actually been trying to do is to lecture what we fixed up here in the front the front patch was we cut some cardboard strips like this and then you get them up into the headliner and start stuffing it down to give it a little more stretch now if I start pushing that down you see the wrinkles go away so that's another tip what you could do is stuff this cardboard strip maybe about an inch thick an inch wide rather by I don't know say 12 inches or so and get your tool and stuff it down in there and look that'll get rid of that wrinkle that'll push those wrinkles out you see so just another tip if you want to get a more uniform look instead of having some wrinkles in the fabric now again it all depends on which company you're using for the headliner with the tweed material you usually do not see this and so one of the last parts you got to do for the headliners and put in the rear quarter window piece is basically just like before you get a glue you know dry on dry onto the pillow here and just glue that down and then you get what you want to do is your in the door panel area here you could either cut this or you can leave it on it doesn't matter the door panels are going to cover this anyway so it's really not gonna make much of a difference you just want to make sure that this that this end piece doesn't go past the door panel seat there where it would sit if it goes past there it's kind of kind of look funny the door panels going to be here and then the materials gonna be over here so you just glue that dry on dry and then just trim the outside like we did on the opposite side of the window here you trim that if there's any excess and then you're good next we're gonna put in the dome light and what we want to do is make sure you got some clean hands which is gonna be a rubber new material you just want to feel around where the whole list for the dome light and I can feel it it's right up in here as you can see I'm pressing in on the material let's see I usually like to make an X okay yo the other corner make an X all right feeling there for your wires now you're brown ground wire goes on the side where the switch is so if you have the original style you just got a no poke the the bare end of the wire into the screw if you have a newer dome light some of the more inexpensive ones have the plugs honestly you might have to put plugins on the end of the wires to make it work but they do reproduce the the old style now so really the final part now is to put in the assist straps but first we want to find our screws that we left in there so we can feel around and make sure we know where to cut so what I'm doing is now I cut an X where the material is covering the screw so I can poke the screw through and then finally get it out there's one take these two flathead screws out and then what we'll do is we've got to punch holes through the assist straps for the screws to go in okay so here's our new assist strap and what we want to do is we want to be able to punch holes through this so the hook can go through and like I said I mean you see it's kind of thick between the hook and the new material if you could see how thick that is for that screw to pass through here and then come out the other end and screw it to the body might be kind of tough so what we need are some long machine screws or self-tapping screws these seem they're much longer and just enough to stick out and attach to the body of the car so we might have to use those but what I like to do is kind of line up where the hook would go it's usually bad I don't know half an inch of three-quarters of an inch from the top of the strap and I just kind of make a a dot with a pen or a pencil see what my luck my dots are and we have an old-fashioned hole puncher you or you can use a razor or some sort of another punch you know to punch these holes through but what I do is I get the biggest punch that we have line it up on the hole squeeze sometimes you got to bang it on the table to get a little more through and we got our hole there's our two holes the line up here your hook put your screw through let it poke out I like the self-tapping screws because they have the cutting end on them so they grab pretty quickly and there's your sister F so now we're going to install them okay so here's our two holes here I took out those fill up those FOB I'm sorry the flathead screws that came out these are the originals as you can see but they're kind of short to go through the material the hook the material it just won't grab so I usually use these self tappers and they grab if you want to go to the hardware store I guess and pick up these screws with the same thread for a little bit longer I guess you could you know but I'm just going to use these self toppers for now just get those in kind of line it up with the holes you can poke around make sure you're lined up I can tell this when it's about to grab yep I got them lined up I just turned them in a couple turns it's a little loose here like you can see but how to finagle around just to get the screw head the threads into the hole just get them in nice and tight didn't take much to get them tight so and there you go into just the straps okay one other thing I forgot to mention was remember the old little hook that went back here okay this is what these old little hook hook sleeves to look like they had these up until about 67 so for all of our early bugs that have the multi piece headliner you're all going to have this and that little screw is back there mm I told you to put the screw there that's right there and there's your final hook okay so here's our headliner we are basically done and as you can see looks pretty good a couple areas we could still touch up here and there but overall that is the gist of it in my opinion I like I said I do like to tweed much better you will not have some of these little fine imperfections that you see here in the material tweed really hides that stuff is it's a woven material like I said you can cut some of those cardboard strips for some extra tension on the headliner to make this look a little bit better you can try steaming it and then let it shrink but overall this is the way the headliner should look and now all you have to do is basically pop the windows in and I have a video on that on youtube so you can go on YouTube and check that out to see how to do that but as for this the sake of this video we are completed with the multi piece headliner for 63 and earlier beetles okay so that wraps up the multi piece headliner for 63 in earlier beetles like I said the key to this is just take your time go slow and if you come into any trouble spots just take a break and maybe go get a cup of coffee or something then come back take a deep breath and try it again right after you put the headliner in the next step basically would be either the carpet or the windows to put in and I have a window video on YouTube or my website at classic VW bugs comm so take a peek on my website sign up for my newsletter and we're always having more and more videos come out so if you have any questions you could also email me chris at classic VW bugs calm good luck [Music]

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Length: 124min 1sec (7441 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020