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View GarageBeen keeping myself busy with the wagon lately. I've been wanting, for a really long time, to redo my headliner with something...almost anything. The current light beige vinyl has been cracking all over and I've been getting tired of it.
I for one, dislike removing interior body panels since I seem to always break the clips...but this week I decided to bite the bullet and just tear it all out. Prior, I searched long and hard to get a decent fabric that would match the interior of the car...which has light beige, some black, mostly dark brown plastic, and some caramel(ish) colored door cards. The first batch I ordered was a fleece type fabric in a brown plaid, but that was too light - now I've got a nice 15ft blanket...should have ordered a sample.
Next I ordered another fabric, without ordering a sample first...again 
, but this is the one I ended up using. It's a nice plaid pattern that pulls in on all the colors and it looks great. Next I had to order some foam, since what was there before was foam backed. I didn't want to glue the material on top of the vinyl in fear that it would come off with the warm summers and cold winters we get up here in Northern Ontario - making the vinyl expand and shrink. I found this great foam online that I special ordered to have an adhesive backing http://www.foamforyo...volara_foam.htm. Before ripping everything out of the car i stuck my fabric to the adhesive backing on the foam - now I've got a sheet ready to go.
After removing the headliner I scraped everything off the headliner board - which is pretty much just a molded cardboard.
We used spray on contact cement to get the foam onto the headliner board, although, knowing what I know now, I would have looked into getting an adhesive baking on both sides of the foam since it seems to hold really well. Only time will tell.
While I was at it, I pulled the blue fabric off the privacy cover and recovered it with a layer of foam and fabric much like the head liner. I also threw in some 5 1/4" speakers which take less space than the 2 6x9 in boxes I had in the hatch.
There was honestly nothing wrong with the privacy cover, only that it was blue, and I didn't like it lol 
I also painted the visible areas of the privacy cover sides to a black, so that it would blend in better than the current blue.
Holes were cut out for the speakers after all the fabric was applied
And finally, the finished product
And next I should have enough fabric to do some sections of the door cards 
, but that's for another day 
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