• Matt Sonnenburg
    15
    Doing a headliner in a new VW Beetle. Its the 1/8 inch thinner headliner material. Never worked with the thinner stuff. Anything different with it?
  • Robert Webb
    16
    Are you sure it isnt 3/16? The 1/8 inch shows every imperfection under it.
  • Matt Sonnenburg
    15
    Ya the 3/16 made the sunroof sun shad slide hard. And the pattern & color match was best with the 1/8
  • Matt Sonnenburg
    15
    It’s a 2006 VW Beetle 2.5 with sunroof
  • Robert Webb
    16
    Ive have gone over the 3/16 with 1/8 and that hides a lot
  • Naseem Muaddi
    38
    Like Robert said the 1/8" shows all the imperfections. For some common colors you can buy 3/16" to use on the headliner and matching 1/8" for the sunroof shade
  • Warren McClung
    9
    I always buy 1/8 headliner when doing sunroof and headliner. Most boards are pretty smooth and come with 1/8 now. 1/ 8 isn't any harder to work with than the thicker foam back IMO. Wait until you get a vw or bmw guy that wants suede headliner lol. Did a few of those. Suede headliner has No stretch and those boards have contours that require headliner to have stretch to it. And for anyone who hasn't had a land rover or range rover, make sure to measure the width at the time of your estimate. Some of those require 65 in material. And irs sometimes hard to get the color match.
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