Anyone know how to peek between the headliner and roof easily w/o yanking the headliner?

Trying to track down an intermittent thunk noise in the roof. It's almost like there's a loose bolt that occasionally rolls into something and you hear a thunk to your upper left (left of the sunroof) as you're driving. Sometimes you hear it as you go up/down slopes. Sometimes you hear it when hitting bumps that wobble the truck from left to right.

Unfortunately, sometimes you don't hear it for weeks to months at a time, so it's hard to schedule an appointment at a dealer and hope to show them the problem. I hate it when you can't reproduce problems for them (like my glovebox area buzz that went away after I scheduled an appointment)-:

Open the sunroof shade and pull off the surround molding around the opening in the headliner. You should be able to pull the headliner down enough to look in between there, especially to the rear of the headliner. The front part of the headliner (in front of the sunroof) is pretty well secured by the dome lamp, so can't really look up there. Sometimes the glued-on insulation panels will drop down and either rattle or get glue on the top of the sunroof glass.

Gilly

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wasn't a bolt rolling around...it was the insulation sliding around after it had fallen down :-P

They claimed to have reinsulated the headliner. I'm hoping they used the new magnetic insulation, but no part#s were listed, so I doubt it :-(