Irish Mini Owners Club

ive just got my mini back from the painters and will be fitting the headling...has anyone any tips on putting it in?

*the headlining i have is black, along with black carpets, black door cards...black parcel shelf...you get the idea lol
does anyone else thinkthis will be a tad on the 'dull' side? should i have gone for a cream/white headlining? the car is island blue btw

couple bits if advice, as I had to do mine 3 times.

Check there is plenty overlap.
Get as many clamps as you can find to hold things.
Put the roof bars back in the correct order ( Think its in the haynes manual )
Get the best contact glue you can find.
Get as many mates as you can find to help.
And finally use a good hair dryer/heat gun to shrink and mould any loose bits/folds. (Be extra careful as the vinyl melts and can burn really easy)

Otherwise best of luck

pop into your local stationary store and get yourself some buldog clips. Come in helpfull during fitting.

would love to no how do do this aswell as i have one there to do got as far as putting the rods back on the cloth and fitted it back up thats 5 months ago so need help please!!!!!!!!!!

i just got round to fitting mine there last weekend with the help of my dads mate
we started by fitting the headlining to the rods (cant remember the colour order off the top of my head)
fit to the car, center the headlining and roll the rods up
get a few people to help you pull the headlining tight and clip the headlining around the seams with some clips/clamps (we got ours from B&Q which cost about £6 for a selection of
we started from the middle door posts and worked out way out towards each screen
when your cutting around the posts etc only cut a bit at a time as you cant add material to it.
we have only the 4 main corners to cut and glue then we can get the screens in
il post a few pictures if i can find my camera

for more info check this thread out on "the mini forum" http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/in ... opic=69956