Defender Headliner in a Series

Hi,

What will it take to make a Defender headliner fit in a series? I guess it will be a little long, but anything else?

Thanks, Geedle.

Windscreen top is quite different.

Ahh. Thought I'd found a way to get a cheap headliner!

Grandaddylow said:

Ahh. Thought I'd found a way to get a cheap headliner!

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I have one fitted into a series roof I peeled back the original covering & cut it to fit.
I trimmed the rear & a little of the front corners iirc so it sits up inside the roof panel & secured
it with the mirror but after I re-covered it in black

That sounds quite doable. I'll start looking for one! What did you recover it with? Really I'm trying to deal with noise. I don't want to stick sound deadening without a way of covering it.

Cheers for that picture. Very helpful.

Grandaddylow said:

That sounds quite doable. I'll start looking for one! What did you recover it with? Really I'm trying to deal with noise. I don't want to stick sound deadening without a way of covering it.

Cheers for that picture. Very helpful.

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No worries pal I covered it in this gear & it makes a major difference to the noise reduction,
plus now it doesn't rain inside the cab lol

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Luxury-B...igh-Quality-/361996441423?hash=item5448ab574f

Yeah. Mine rains inside pretty good. Thanks for that.

If you are soundproofing there are 2 issues:
drumming - roof flashing works really well. The bulhead and doors make a bif difference
reflected noise - this seems to be the rood and headling and also the doors - carpet works well.
My doors have flashing and carpet, the roof has only carpet. Nothing ever stuck to the roof so I made my own headlining out of corex (corrugated plastic - the stuff from buuilders merchants) its cheap, easy to cut, rigid enough, carpet glues to it and its waterproof. Its tucked over the rood edge and screwed under the rood capping strips: If you run the corrugations front to rear it folds nicely round the rood curve.
http://www.visionplastics.co.uk/4mm-White-Corex-2440-1220.

I had carpet on the doors and floor in the past. I'm trying to cure some leaks before I put it back down. As you say, carpet on the doors made a huge difference. I've also put cheap sound deadening on the underside of the bonnet. It makes a difference and to my surprise did not come off or melt!

Have you got a picture of the inside of your roof - it sounds like a good idea. I'd dismissed the idea of sticking to the roof because I thought the paint would just come off....

Grandaddylow said:

I had carpet on the doors and floor in the past. I'm trying to cure some leaks before I put it back down. As you say, carpet on the doors made a huge difference. I've also put cheap sound deadening on the underside of the bonnet. It makes a difference and to my surprise did not come off or melt!

Have you got a picture of the inside of your roof - it sounds like a good idea. I'd dismissed the idea of sticking to the roof because I thought the paint would just come off....

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anything is possible..................

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/confessions-of-a-skin-flint.291552/

I'll get one. Its made in 3 panels - a centre and 2 sides, tucked over the roof joint and with two 1" wide ally strips over the joins running under where the roof capings are. These are held up with screws into the roof under tha cappings. I made flat panesl out of corex and carpet and fixed these to the sides in the back too, held in by bits of angle in the stiffeners.

I had the whole summer to sort out a headlining whilst the hard top was off but as usual I left it until the last minute.

I ended up sticking 6mm thick spacer fabric directly to the roof https://www.baltex.co.uk/spacerfabrics/

Its probably not the best for sound insulation or thermal insulation but it shouldn't retain moisture and so far its stopped it raining inside and makes it noticeably warmer and quieter.

Pic of my D1 inside

I think the challenge is decsiding whether gue to the roof or separate panels. If you can get a good glue fix then glueing gives better insulation as it removes the cold surface but if it gets hot and sags then you get condensation between the metal and the insulation. My doors and tub sides are glued, but my roof is in panels because I couldn't get a decent fix. Condensation is not a show stopper on the painted ally, but its a killer if you have any ply panelling or steel / ally joint thats staying wet. I#ve recently had some sucess with Pink grip where other glues have failed, time willl tell.

That looks really neat. I'd put off doing it cos I wasn't sure that I decent finish could be achieved. Think I'll have a got at it now. Thanks for posting the pictures.