Hi Everyone,

My wife's '04 Disco headliner was starting to sag a little and on a nice morning opened the sunroof, needless to say the headliner sagged to the point it had to be cut!

At any rate, the headliner doesn't appear to be fiberglass; has anyone with a '04 replaced their headliner? I was going to spray it with underseal but if it's a pressed paper like all other headliners I'm stuck...

Thanks for all the help!

 

The headliner shell is fiberglass and it is covered with 1/8 foam and some cloth. Take the headliner out and strip the cloth and foam and paint the thing and put it back. Someone posted a nice write up about the process with pics.

 

X2. They are all fiberglass so look in the tech section at the top of the DII section and find the right up. The painted headliner looks awesome IMO. If you just feel the need to have a cloth headliner do a search. Someone recently did a very nice write up on their cloth replacement and they did a camo cloth headliner. Looked great too.

 

I saw a Disco with a giraffe print headliner...

 

Hmmm.... When I cut some of the sagging headliner I could see a green colored material, seemed like the headliner itself. The headliner material I cut had the foam backing material I'm used to see, is the green material some padding and it's glued to the fiberglass?

I don't want to pull the headliner only to realize I can't paint it myself...

Thanks!

 

Maybe it's the previous owner's weed stash...
AFAIK there is the headliner cloth and 1/8 foam and nothing else, just the fiberglass headliner.

 

yes. its the cloth 1/8" of foam and the fiberglass headliner. the P/O maybe tried doing the headliner himself and going over the old one with some green material. you can pull it out using the write up and get it all cleaned up and painted and back together and never worry about it again.

 

I pulled my entire headliner down in my 2003 Disco last Friday night. This was to install my new 2004 roof rails. It is Fiberglass as I was itching to death like the feeling you get while installing insulation in a house.... The headliner seemed very thin fiber glass. So I think one would need to be very careful when tearing off the headliner. I think the 99-02 Discovery's may have a thicker heavier headliner. That is just a guess. As this one could not have weighed more than 8bls or close. Can anyone confirm that that old style headliners are more heavy duty.

 

I finally got my headliner put back in just an hour ago. What I thought to be a long weekend project turned into 3 weeks... biblical rain, bought the last can of chalkboard paint from Lowes, needed more paint, had to wait a week, more rain, family stuff, rain, etc.

I am very pleased with the work, but mainly an happiest I no longer have to open the garage door from inside, lift it from the garage floor onto the roof of wife's car so I can park mine, then move it from her roof onto the floor in case she needs to drive her car that day.

In answer to thickness and heavy duty: mine was only about 1/8" thick and 8 lbs sounds close.