Headliner Materials; Originality and other herbs

[deQuincey]

i have folloowed with interest the comments about the headliner, ceiling,... materials and made some observations that i would like to share

in my case i see this situation

left is original material of the sun shades, central is the full rigid piece that holds the sun shades, original metarial too, you see "lines" but they are different;
finally headliner repro material that i bought from walloth, i can see no lines, but holes are ok

down sunshades, center rigid piece top right corner, new material repro

thoughts...

 

[JamesE30]

Your first picture isn’t loading for me.. ?

I just did my headliner. For reference, here are some pictures of my original off white material (‘74 3.0CS), SMS Fabrics material (black) and dyed black sunvisors (Foliatec matt black). The sun-visors are a noticeably different material to the rest, with a much more defined, moulded plastic appearance.

For the headliner itself, the SMS fabrics is thicker than original as many people have mentioned making it harder to work with, but not impossible with some calculated stretching and a bit of heat. Chrome trim requires some massaging but was no big deal. Great fitment without wrinkles was the challenge. Too much heat will remove the texture so be careful. It’s anyway slightly less defined than the original.

 

[teahead]

sms looks pretty good.

compared to the w&n

 

[bavbob]

I am happy with SMS and got my paint guys to create an SEM color for the visors etc. Really cannot tell.

 

[HB Chris]

SEM Ranger White works very well