My recently purchased 2003 Disco II was in great shape except for a sagging headliner, which I understand is a common cosmetic issue.

Found a $4 fix at Autozone which had my headliner as good as new in 90 seconds. They sell a Headliner Repair Kit which consists of 8 x 1/4" corkscrew wires on clear plastic 'button' bases. You simply screw one of these thru the fabric into the foam roof liner which pins the fabric back in place. Totally nondestructive. I spent a whole insomniac's night working out how I might accomplish this before a guy at the local upholstery shop steered me to this fix vs. a $400 headliner replacement.

 

Can you provide pictures of what your headliner looked like after this repair?

If it is these then it seems like it would look like poo!

 

maybe these?

 

I concur, would like to see the end result if possible. Thanks!

 

$70 is fabric and adhesive and 4 hours of time and it can look brand new again. Why mess with buttons in your ceiling

 

Thanks for the post I'm going to look into this at my local Autozone. I have the DVD option from the factory in my Disco, the headliner is sagging, and it looks like a bear to replace especially with the DVD unit in the ceiling.

 

IMO the only way to fix a sagging headliner is the hard way. Strip it out from the truck, strip off the old foam backed liner material, clean down the grp substrate and fit new foam backed headliner material fixed with adhesive. Anything short of that is a bodge or makeover. Whilst the headliner is out fix the existing or future potential leaks to the sunroofs. When this is all done properly it's good for another 10 years.

 

My headliner started sagging too. I have a 2003 Discovery S. It doesn't have the dual sunroof setup of the SE, but has the same foam roof panel under the headliner with the sunroof cutouts. So the headliner material is stretched over voids where sunroof would go. Headliner started sagging around the sunroof areas and a few other places.

Anyway, I spent a few bucks on the Amazon upholstery pins with clear plastic heads and then spent about 15 minutes putting them in. They are all symmetrically and evenly spaced. No one has ever mentioned them, including folks who have never been in a Disco and comment on all the headroom as they gaze around and above - headroom that has twist pins in it. I decided to save my time and money for things like shocks, tires, and other things we have to look forward to with these trucks.

 

does anyone remember when head liner were cloth held in by 3 or 4 roof bows and they never came down or caw loose

 

Yes, I'll take some pix and post.

The result is very unobtrusive, and actually looks quite natural. The "buttons" are not black, but clear. I doubt that I could replace the headliner myself and not have it look like the headliner equivalent of a self-window tint job!! Turned out that only 7 pins corrected the issue and literally took me 90 seconds.