$12 headliner

[Bouncer]

When I bought my Jeep the headliner was teabagging me and crapping brown fuzz all over me. I didnt want to pay 200+ for someone to put in new fabric, and knew me+glue+fabric waz just screaming disaster. I also knew that I hate the look and sound of bare metal above my head.


So I did the next best thing I could think of. I bought 2 6$ cans of rustoleum spray on bedliner. I pulled my old headliner out, scraped all the old glue off with a wire brush and started spraying.




Now at this point I could have put it back in and been happy with a cbeap fix, but I went one step further. I knew that metal, then fiberglass, then black bed liner was just begging for an oven in the summer. I decided to invest a little more (optional) and bought a roll of reflectix insulation from lowes and lined my roof with it before reinstalling my headliner.





Then just reinstalled. I did about 4-5 coats as the fiberglass sheet kept wanting to absorb the paint. Key here is ventalation and allowing the headliner to cure for a few days before reinstall to keep the chemical smell to a minimum.





I like the 2 tone finish with the overhead consol and sun visors also.

 

[HeliSniper]

Looks great and I'll bet it helps during those Oklahoma summers.......

 

[Bouncer]

It actually works great, also cuts down on wind noise from the rack quite a bit also.

 

[Smokey_Bear_JLUR]

I did the same to the sagging liner in my old Disco II. Bedliner for the win!!

 

[adventure_is_necessary]

I might have to try that reflectix stuff between the metal and headliner on mine. I'm planning on making window covers with it to help in the colder months. I'd love to cut down on the noise and heat transfer while driving tho!

 

[caswanson]

I rolled some into my door panels on my hardtop. Should have done the whole hardtop. . .

 

[Kardolf]

My old XJ had the headliner sagging problems and I finally pulled it out, and used some color matched thread to hand sewed the fabric to head fiberglass. Never had a problem with it again, but it certainly didn't look as nice as what you have done.

 

[kevhes]

ive thought about doing this on my jk, but with the thicker insulation. i think it would beat paying for the insulation kits that are way over priced, plus it gets rid of the white roof inside.

 

[JimInBC]

Filing this one away for when my headliner sags. I like the insulation idea.