Don't Use Headliner Material to Cover your Sun Visors ...

Dibbons · Mar 16, 2019

... or they will come out wrinkled.

Now I have to ask, when I do the visors over again, what color should they be? With the original tawny gold they were gold, with the first blue repaint they were blue, and with the current Bahama Yellow and two-toned interior I can't decide.

69a100 · Mar 16, 2019

Those weren't done by a professional were they?

Dibbons · Mar 16, 2019

He used to do good work, now furniture is piled higher and higher in his shop every week, he is falling way behind, and is quality of work is no longer acceptable--in other words, he has lost it for some reason.

At least he could have told me the headliner material was too stretchy to work well on small items.

Lefty71 · Mar 16, 2019

I'm no upholstery man, but I wonder if the headliner material might have worked better if it was glued to a backing such as a layer of thin felt to fatten it up a little, before he started cutting it up and trying to work those edges where it puckered. They should have been finished with a thin strip over the entire edge all the way around anyway, I do believe. HTH, Lefty71

Dibbons · Mar 16, 2019

There is foam underneath. which probably made things worse.

Lefty71 · Mar 16, 2019

Dibbons said:
There is foam underneath. which probably made things worse.

There should be foam... maybe yours was too "squishy"??

69a100 · Mar 16, 2019

Lefty71 said:
I'm no upholstery man, but I wonder if the headliner material might have worked better if it was glued to a backing such as a layer of thin felt to fatten it up a little, before he started cutting it up and trying to work those edges where it puckered. They should have been finished with a thin strip over the entire edge all the way around anyway, I do believe. HTH, Lefty71

Hence my comment in post #2.

Dibbons · Mar 16, 2019

That's it!

Now, any opinions on color?

slimt · Mar 16, 2019

Dibbons said:
He used to do good work, now furniture is piled higher and higher in his shop every week, he is falling way behind, and is quality of work is no longer acceptable--in other words, he has lost it for some reason.

At least he could have told me the headliner material was too stretchy to work well on small items.

try using a heat gun on the visors.. it does shrink.. just dont do it so close where it melts.. they use a heat gun on the wrinkled areas of a headliner to tauten it up..

Fran Blacker · Mar 16, 2019

Seen on ebay new sun visors for sale, don't if there for your.

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