Is there a good temporary fix for the annoying sagging headliner? It started in the back near the hatch of my '86 900 and slowly worked its way to just behind the front seats, now big enough to hang low enough to be visable in the rearview mirror.
I've thought about of sliting the cloth near the hatch and applying an aerosol glue to the backing and pressing it up. The other plan is just to pin it to the backing with straight pins until I decide to do a permanent recover job.
Bloody big sunroof - better than temporary. We had a full length Britax in a 76 99 combi. Brilliant night driving car. Headlining never sagged again! Cheers
in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Dave Hinz at snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net wrote on 28/10/2004 02:52:
Yeah, don't bother I used to recommend this method ... Until it sagged
*again* :(
Sewing pins seem to work alright, as long as you push them in with confidence and leave them. In your case, pull the headlining back to the recess above the rear seats and tack in there towards the top of the recess. Smooth along the top of the recess and tack up at the rear (perhaps the sides, too). Smoothing the excess right to the top of the boot, tack again there.
in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Sam at snipped-for-privacy@apatchofsun.com wrote on 28/10/2004 17:55:
That's the spirit! Bodge it - tack it up with pins. If it cost that little, just run it into the ground and love it. It's all part of the character anyway and a lot of jobs on old SAABs have a story behind the ingenuity which fixes a problem.
For the MOT, if you think it needs welding, wire brush the sills, paint the underside in hammerite, fibreglass fill in anything you can poke with a screwdriver and use a lot of bitumin to underseal it. After a couple of a weeks it all looks like it's been there forever :)
Engine-wise, do a mini-service on the ignition electrics (sparks, rotor arm, car & leads), get the timing right and then lean it out slightly. Old SAABs are good cars; and a lot better than a lot of MOT "successes" that are out on public roads - I have no problem doing this kind of thing. Remember, the environmental impact of producing one new car outweighs us all running our old SAABs for the next 10 years :)
I had a 285 quid 1985 model 900i and loved it. It was seriously rotten, but had a great heart ... I miss that car :(
I used Staples in in a hand staple gun (like you use for pinning notices to boards).
Worked great looked messy if you looked for it, but normally not noticable, and a damned site easier on the hands than trying to push pins in. I planned it to be temporary, but it stayed there over a winter and summer until I sold the car, and only had to restaple one place after the old ones came loose. As they are metallic too, easy to spot for removal when you do a proper replace if you choose to.
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