has anyone tried doing the headlining kits you can get- is it easy enough or is it best to get a professional ?

Did mine in the summer. Ideally you need 3 people, one each side to hold the material clear of the shell while the third presses it down (I used a small foam covered paint roller). The Martrim kit comes with 3 cans of glue, use plenty in the hollows, but beware, once the two parts stick, they are stuck so if you get it wrong or get any creases, they are there forever. The hardest part is getting the old glue off the shell (wire brush seemed the best way) and deciding what you are going to do with the pillar trims. The old flock comes off easily enough with a scraper and cellulose thinners or white spirit to clean them up again. The foam backed headlining can't easily be used on the pillar trims as you can't get a clean edge where the seatbelt mountings slide.

I just cleaned up the pillars on my old dse, they looked the same as the ones on mine now.
I put the in the sink with warm water, used a half a wooden peg to get the flock off, no scratches, looked like were made that way

Gilbertd wrote:

Did mine in the summer. Ideally you need 3 people, one each side to hold the material clear of the shell while the third presses it down (I used a small foam covered paint roller). The Martrim kit comes with 3 cans of glue, use plenty in the hollows, but beware, once the two parts stick, they are stuck so if you get it wrong or get any creases, they are there forever. The hardest part is getting the old glue off the shell (wire brush seemed the best way) and deciding what you are going to do with the pillar trims. The old flock comes off easily enough with a scraper and cellulose thinners or white spirit to clean them up again. The foam backed headlining can't easily be used on the pillar trims as you can't get a clean edge where the seatbelt mountings slide.

Sound like not a easy job at all I will have to wait until summer get roof out and see many thanks

I bought some faux suede material with a slight grain in cream from the Bay of E... I stripped the old stuff off and cleaned the surface of all loose foamy stuff.

I then sanded it lightly and sprayed on high temp contact adhesive doing a section at a time. I did the same to the material (a bit at a time again) - let them dry and then pressed them down, stretching and squeezing in to the shapes as I went. It came out like new and a year later still looks great. Cost me about £40 all in I think. Plus there's absolutely no foam to fall to bits again under the material.

I also stripped the crap flock off the side trims and covered them in the same faux suede.

Stripped and ready to cover:

Side trims covered (forgot to take pics of main part at this point!):