Bus Headliner

[hambone]

Any of you guys ever installed one? Is it a hell-job?

[Amskeptic]

Any of you guys ever installed one? Is it a hell-job?

Depends on whether or not it is a passenger bus interior or some camper derivative.

The passenger buses are a very involved project if you want to do it correctly, as are the deluxe sunwindow splitties.

With a passenger bus, you need to remove all the windows and the windshield. You need replacement fuzz pads for the rear corners if yours come out delaminated.

Getting a wrinkle-free fit around the window openings is the Big Deal if you care about such things. You need adhesive you can depend on, and you need a few zillion clothespin clamps, and you need to be able to work under sheets of dangling vinyl folds as you get the thing up and hanging on the hoops. I plan to do one on the Squareback. It must be perfect, but I am already pissed that TMI seems to think that bandaidy off-white is the appropriate color instead of Volkswagen's original crisp white. Oh, and they like to have smaller perforation patterns because TMI can do things like that with impunity, the impudent imps.
Colin

[hambone]

All the windows out! Yikes. No other way around it?
There is a passenger bus I was lookin' at. No headliner.
There must be a non-stock way to do it quick, maybe wood like the campers?
Or maybe a missing headliner means more work than the bus is worth if it's not pristine otherwise.

[airkooledchris]

I like the idea of a black headliner, if one were available. (not sure they were ever put into a bus)

or, something that was MUCH tighter to the ceiling, as my hair is always stuck to it when im sitting with halfway decent posture. as a tall person, it seems like wasted space.

in my last two campers I removed the wood cover over the drivers compartment to take advantage of the extra inch or more up there...

on a side note, I poked another little hole in it (the first one that wasn't from the PO anyway) when transporting our xmas tree home. (*(*&^!)

[hambone]

I wonder how a nice gray tight weave carpet would look up there, glued to the ceiling...wouldn't do any irreversible damage anyway.

[RussellK]

I wonder how a nice gray tight weave carpet would look up there, glued to the ceiling...wouldn't do any irreversible damage anyway.

No. Shag is the wave of the future. Also those little ropy light things. A couple of pillows. A sticker that say's if the van's rockin' don't come....has anyone seen my eight ball shift knob?

[ruckman101]

I wonder how a nice gray tight weave carpet would look up there, glued to the ceiling...wouldn't do any irreversible damage anyway.

No. Shag is the wave of the future. Also those little ropy light things. A couple of pillows. A sticker that say's if the van's rockin' don't come....has anyone seen my eight ball shift knob?

I think your eight ball shift knob is in the same box as that gas pedal with toes.


neal

[airkooledchris]

is now a bad time to admit I had both red LED rope lights and one of those footie gas pedals in my Vanagon?

I LOVED the 70's van's when I was a kid. It ultimately led to my wanting a VW bus down the road, but id always drool over the crazy modded vans at the car shows my dad would take me to growing up.

[zabo]

all the beetle ratrod guys are using wooden window blinds







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some ideas here as well

[Sluggo]

I think your eight ball shift knob is in the same box as that gas pedal with toes.


neal

I have that pedal.

Bob,

Take a look at mine next time your at the lab. Mine was originally the regular headliner. I tore it out and reupholstered the walls with the fabric of my choice & lots of glue. The I used the wood out of a pop top as a template to cut roof panels, filled in the gaps and covered them with fabric. I like it. Still need to pull the windows though. If you go bare, painted walls like a camper you'll be spending days sanding off the old glue.

[Amskeptic]

Hambone . . .

Put in the correct white headliner . . . perfectly. Don't listen to these, these, these hippys.

Volkswagenwerk selected white vinyl for several good reasons.

A) keeps the interior visually light and open and airy and looks handsome with the black window rubber contrast besides



B) keeps the interior visually light and open and airy and looks handsome with the black window rubber contrast besides



C) keeps the interior visually light and open and airy and looks handsome with the black window rubber contrast besides



and finally,
D) keeps the interior visually light and open and airy and looks handsome with the black window rubber contrast besides




Oh, and by the way,

[RussellK]

Hambone . . .

Put in the correct white headliner . . . perfectly. Don't listen to these, these, these hippys.

Sure Hammy. Drive the bus Dad had.

[Amskeptic]

Hambone . . .

Put in the correct white headliner . . . perfectly. Don't listen to these, these, these hippys.

Sure Hammy. Drive the bus Dad had.

You saying I ain't cool?

F) White keeps the interior c-o-o-o-o-l. Kewl white.

[hambone]

Pops has cash. I'm broke since I cut my ties with The Establishment.
FRUGAL, not cheap ya dig.

[Amskeptic]

Pops has cash. I'm broke since I cut my ties with The Establishment.
FRUGAL, not cheap ya dig.

So, "pops" is installing a new headliner in Chloe. I am nervous. It only had two small tears, but looked dingy, so I am putting in a brand-new ( NOW AVAILABLE IN FACTORY ORIGINAL BRIGHT WHITE) TMI perforated vinyl headliner. I am so insane about perfect headliners, that this could ruin my whole day. Then again, if I pull it off, it will make me deliriously joyful.

If Chloe looks acceptable, I get to sell the incorrrect "off-white" headliner that I never did put in the Squareback, and go buy a NOW AVAILABLE IN FACTORY ORIGINAL BRIGHT WHITE ) TMI perforated vinyl headliner for it, as well.

I will do a write-up with photographs so long as I do not commit a catastrophe.
Colin