Putting my headliner back up today. When I removed and stripped it for recovering, when I removed the rear A/C vents from the headliner,...the deteriorating foam around each vent came off too. I'm ready to wrap this up and wondering if anyone has put their headliner back without the foam around the vents, and if so, If the rear A/C seemed to still blow good volume.

I never have anyone in the back, and never run the rear A/C,....but the next owner may want good rear A/C.

Brian

 

can you just wrap them with double backed foam tape and reinstall ?

 

I recently retrofitted the rear a/c into mine, I just used one inch or so foam weatherstripping for window units and some outdoor carpet tape from lowes, worked nicely.

 

good ideas there guys. Thanks.

 

Is carpet tape double sided? Did you put the tape on the headlner then stick the window unit weather strip foam to it?

 

Yup it's double sided, you have to really push on it for it to stick well, but the texture and stickiness of the tape combined with compressing the foam to fit should keep it in place, I can post a pic in about an hour

 

Pic would be great!

 

You can see the tape peeking out there. The vents shouldn't be terribly hard to take out of the headliner, just compress the clips on the rear fully, then put your foam in, and the vents after that.

 

thanks, on my way to Home Depot to see what I can find.

 

I was going to add that I lost foam on one side of mine in the rear vent when I fixed my headliner and because of it you cannot feel it blowing air so definitely worth fixing. I have just been lazy since no one uses the jump seats in mine to even fix it.