|
PNP Practice
Went to the pick-n-pull today. 300d with sagging headliner, like mine (and others). Pulled the pillar cover, cut the headliner perpendicular with the rear window, pulled the weatherstrip at the door opening and the handhold above the rear door opening at the headliner.
I anticipated seeing some sort of mounting device to hold the bow tight against the roof - didn't find one. In fact, the tube containing the sunroof cable runs along the back of the rear window then toward the sunroof at the middle of the roof. The bow would contact this tube as the lowest fixed object near the back window. There was nothing behind the headliner to indicate the bow is supported in the middle - only with the plug mentioned by Mark DiSilvestro in the previous post.
The pnp vehicle had one good plug which I removed and have attached pics. The end of the bow was not captured in this plug but was too far within the plug on the other pillar. The plug is behind the pillar and partly covered with an open cell foam. I would guess these could be had at a dealer - perhaps from Phil at Fastlane. These would seem a necessity to repair the dropped bow.
The entire rear portion of the vehicle is covered with a thin layer (1/4") open cell foam. In the PNP car, the foam was still well attached to the car but the headliner had dropped from the foam. By removing the rear pillar cover, weatherstrip and grabhandle I would suspect one could spray adhesive onto the back side of the headliner and perhaps the opposite side of the foam to attempt to re-attach the headliner to the foam.
I may go back to the PNP and remove a portion of the headliner material and foam to see if I can attempt to attach the two using 3M spray adhesive.
The majority of the sagging
__________________
83 300d - 390k
|