In the interest of painting the roof of my Discovery 2, I will have to remove the roof bars. Will the entire headliner need to come down to access the retaining bolts underneath for the bars. Any experience in removing the bars would be appreciated

 

im starting on painting whole car, saturday going to remove the bars.will post after.

 

Yes, the headliner comes out to access the bolts for the bars. The headliner is super simple to remove. Just lots of little trim bits to keep track of. The bars simply unbolt.

 

I would say YES, I have just done my headliner and I did remove the bars to reseal them, the fixing nuts are well in above the headliner, so it needs to come out I got mine out in about 1.5 hours, an the recovered it Material cost my £74 to do the headliner and took about 2 hours to recover but it does look nice,

 

or you could tape the bars and spray around them.....is it a show car?

 

Thanks for all the replies. I went to the paint shop again today to talk to the manager (he wasn’t in on the first visit). Told him I really would prefer to tape and paint around them. He said it wouldn’t be issue. I have no problem mechanically in dropping the headliner but it was redone by previous owner and looks good. I have no leaks from the bars or sunroofs so I’d rather not tease the monkey!

 

good choice!

 

I just removed my headliner,it was a bit tough not to bend the sides,any tip how to put it back after im redoing it? Also good advice on a roof racks, i will also not touch them.

 

this was a pretty good tutorial on the removal. Maybe you can gleam some technique on putting it back up from how they removed it.

 

Nice video, but they doesnt show how they putted inside, and strange that they didnt redo the nets on the back.