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Washing a headliner

RS23VOA

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I bought a new headliner years ago(1988). It sat in the shop with the car and got dirty and smells mildewy. Could i run it through a big front load washer to get the dirt and smell out of it?
 
If its cloth, it may shrink if you wash it, if its vinyl, no clue, but may also effect the stitching. Might be easier to just get a new one so then you don't have any problems.
 
I don't know about washing the loose headliner, but if it was installed, here's the factory manual instructions on cleaning (for 1970)

Headliner cleaning.jpg
 
I'd hand wash it in cold water and line dry it before putting it in a machine.
 
I had what I thought was a yellow headliner in one of my 73 Road Runners, and when I switched the interior out, and took the headliner trim down, I saw the headliner was tan underneath the trim. I sprayed some Simple Green on a spot of the headliner, and it wiped clean to be tan too. Turns out the headliner was the victim of a decade or so of being in the presence of a heavy smoker and all the yellow was residue from cigarette smoke. I wiped it all down with Simple Green and it washed up just fine, but that was back in 1988, so the headliner was only 15 years old then.
 
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