speedkar9

I just wanted to share with you all my project in wrapping my Camry's headliner and pillars in a black suede like material. I made a short video on the project here:

Here's what I started with, my black leather interior swapped Gen 5 with stock gray upper pillars and headliner:

All of the accessories around the headliner have to be removed including the overhead console, dome light, sunroof surround, sunvisors and grab-handles. I broke a lot of things, including these two clips on the overhead console:


Once the headliner is down, there's a couple of electrical connections:


Including one that's soldered to the glass for the defroster:


Whoopsy I broke that too. I'll have to get to that before winter:


After a lot of jiggling and bending the headliner came out the front passenger door:


The sunroof shade slides backward once you remove the black stopper/drain port:


Bare interior:


For the sunroof shade I trimmed back some of the stock gray fabric so it will side easier when the suede fabric is glued on top:


I started with 3M 90 spray adhesive:



For the pillars I used 3M 77:



The headliner took a lot of trials. 3M 90 didn't work so it was supplemented with 3M 77. See the video for more details:


Here's everything wrapped, just waiting for glue to dry before going back in the car:


Well it looks like I waited too long, despite being marketed as a strong industrial strength adhesive, the 3M 90 stuff did not hold on the headliner after a few days and the black fabric popped back up:


So time to bring in the big (messy) guns - contact cement:


I had to rip back a good portion of the headliner:


Contact cement goes on both sides then dries for 10 mins, then once you stick it, there's no adjustment!


All of the plastic pieces were painted black to suite:


The only thing being was the sunvisors - I have not devised a method to properly take them apart yet since they are plastic welded together!

Suede pillars and headliner all done, it looks beautiful:


Enjoy!

UDel

Would love to do have a suede/alcantara headliner on my GS but it just seems like so much work. Good job though.

Hoovey689

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Man you are the king of DIY videos and tutorials. Well played. You'd make a great 'car shop' teacher at a high school or trade school

monkey92

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very nice DIY video, looking for my brothers toothbrush right now.

jwong77

Credit where its due, thats a pretty cool project.

SW17LS

Very nice! I love my sueded headliner, I'm sure thats a huge improvement to your Camry.

bagwell

I was thinking of just painting mine black while it's on the car... hehe, too much trouble to remove and too fing hot in Houston.

speedkar9

Thanks, I get that a lot .... I'm a good teacher behind the camera, but not in front!

Definitely a requirement for this project!

It sure is a huge difference...in addition to my black leather interior swap, it feels like a different car now!

Lexmex

that's an awesome amount of work