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Wrapped my car's interior pillars and headliner in black suede. Turned out pretty good, it feels like a much different car now driving around.

Here's how it was done:

Headliner DIY:


Pillar DIY:


Here's a few photos of the process:

Gray Headliner before:



Gray pillars before:



Removing the back seat:



Remove the hand holder:



Remove the seat buckle:



Remove these door sills:



Remove the bottom side panel:



Remove the pillar around the rear windows (differs for 4 door car):



Remove the dome light:



Pop off the A-pillar:



Remove the trim around the sunroof:



Remove the sunroof console:



Remove sunvisors:



Remove the oh-shi* handles:



Headliner should be pretty loose by now. Its held in by 3 clips at the top back:



Just pop it downward, the headliner will fall down and can then be removed from the car:



For those servicing the sunroof, there's only 4 10mm bolts and nuts on each side (left, front, right) and the whole sunroof assembly will drop down, with the motor and glass:



Since I didn't want to remove the sunroof, I had to remove the stopper for the sunshade, which in this case is screwed in from the top, and then slide back the sunshade:



Headliner removed from the car:



The material I used was a suede-like material with a soft touch on one side. I got it from my local fabric store. Laid it out and rough cut it to size:



I used a combination of 3M spray adhesive and Lepage contact cement around the edges to bond the fabric to the headliner. If your headliner is drooping, I recommend removing that fabric substrate and wrapping the suede on the foam hardboard:



Sprayed around the edges:

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Use some contact cement around the edges:


Then fold the material around the edges:


Cutout the sunroof and fold it over, trimming the access:



Here’s the completed headliner, before installing into the car:


Here’s the completed suede wrapped pillars:


All the black plastic trims, including the dome light, sunroof console, trim around sunroof, clips and handles were painted satin black to match the suede:


Reinstallation

Slide the wrapped sunshade back into the sunroof tracks and reinstall the stopper. The suede added some thickness so the shade is much harder to slide around now:

Once you install the headliner in the car and pop in the three clips at the back, the front can be tacked on with the sunvisor clip:


Reinstall the A-pillars:



Reinstall the dome light:



Reinstall the B and C pillars:



And then these side panels. Make sure all clips are in place before popping it in:



Install the hook clips:



And the hand holder:



And the rear seat:



The sunvisors I sourced from a Solara convertible with a black interior:



Finally hookup the sunvisor console. I swapped an ES300 console with the sunglass holder into mine since I don’t use the garage door opener. The black convertible sunvisors have a garage door opener on them anyway.


Completed install:

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Looks like a lot of work.
But looks good.