Re: headliner falling on 87 olds cutlass 40,000 miles on it

"Deck" <decan9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>parked in garage in north Missouri for 3 months during summer and when I
>returned headliner is falling down.  I understand that all the GMs with
>this body have had similar problems.  Any fix on this??

Not just this body or GM for that matter. After many years (high  heat
& smoking will accelerate the problem) the foam backing of the
headliner fabric will turn into mush and the fabric will detach from
the fiberglass headliner shell.

Take the car to an auto trim shop and they can fix it. Proper fix is
to remove headliner assembly, strip off old fabric and remains of the
foam and install new fabric.

Do a Google search and you'll find some writeups on this project, and
many of the better fabric stores like Jo-Ann Fabrics has the proper
material in quite a few colors (forget getting the material from GM -
WAY too expensive).

Regards,
  Bill Bowen
  Sacramento, CA