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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 08:53 AM
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The head linner on my 84,s targa top has started to drop down. And I bet some of you have a fix for me. Also looking to buy digital camera. What is best bang for the buck?
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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 09:24 AM
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You can buy a kit or you can save some money and go to fabric store get some material and then some 3M spray adhesive. Remove old liner brush or vacuum off the dried flakey stuff under it tape off metal area spray and install new material then trim it’s a easy fix seeing as you can remove the top and do it off the car. Some remove the old backer board but I didn't when I did mine. Good Luck

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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 11:54 AM
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I have done upholstery on collector cars for the last 25 years. You can lay the top upside down on a padded work surface and remove the entire headliner and foam pad it is glued to. Then you can turn that upside down and take the glued edges of the headliner loose and then turn it over and get it all removed from the foam, carefully, without tearing the foam. Then carefully place the headliner in the proper position on the foam pad. Using a good quality spray glue, such as a 3M product, but not their contact glue, you can start glueing the headliner down in sections. When you have all the headliner on the side that will be down when in the car glued, which means every square inch of it (if a section is not glued properly it will sag) then you can turn the foam pad over and glue the edges of the headliner to the foam pad. Then all you need to do is get the headliner and pad in place on the targa top and glue all of it to the top. I did this with my 1991 and it looks like new. Just be careful as it is very easy to get glue on your hands, which will then get on the cloth and other places you do not want it.
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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 06:54 PM
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I did the repair and it lasted a year.

Took it to a local upolstery shop the following year and for about $150 got new padding and headliner material installed.

Looks like new.
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