Hi all
Has anyone had their sun visors re trimmed professionally? Any recommendations?
I recently bought a new headliner from headliner-world on eBay (it looks great, for anyone considering doing the same). They sent some spare material for covering the sun visors, which I’m tempted to do that so everything matches, but it looks too fiddly for my sausage fingers. Would like to give them to a professional.
Cheers
Will
I got headlining from the same place, with the spare material.
I haven’t yet bothered with the sunroof panel or sun visors. It doesn’t bother me. Maybe one day I will.
Keep us posted if you find somewhere. Out of interest where are you?
Will do!
I’m in Hertfordshire (but would post the sun visors if someone has a recommendation elsewhere)
There was a place on Facebook called 1UPHolstery.
They were doing the visors for £75 a set (this was a year ago mind).
I never got around to it, but still have the material.
Thanks! Have messaged them
Let me know how you get on, I still want to get mine done!
Monkey, thanks again for the tip. Followed up on it and I’m pleased with the results! Quick turnaround, seems like good value at £50 plus postage. I provided the material as it came with the headliner I bought.
I no longer have a mirror on the passenger side visor, but that doesn’t bother me at all. If this was an issue perhaps you could ask them to retain it; I didn’t ask, they didn’t mention it, and now mine’s gone.
I also did the sunroof panel myself, it’s nice having everything matching. If I’m totally honest the overall difference is minimal but it’s not a huge cost / effort and 1Upholstery did a good job of it!
(https://i.ibb.co/hKgxHnd/EB125891-5-C16-40-C3-9468-FE7-D101-BEC6-A.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/nBMJwC1/AD2382-EC-394-A-4410-AD57-EEDEFC339-F2-A.jpg)
Also if you do want to contact them I’d try instagram rather than email as they were more responsive on there
Looks great
That's neat. I wondered how trimmers did it. I was assuming they 'welded it like the originals.
Thanks! Was a quick turnaround too. Some of their work on instagram is very impressive 8)
They look great! Thanks for the report.
I must get on and send mine off soon.
That's neat. I wondered how trimmers did it. I was assuming they 'welded it like the originals.
Based on what I can see I suspect it'll be 2 halves cut (oversized) around the visor and stitched inside-out, 3/4 of the way around like a bag. It looks then like there's a long running stitch on the open edge. The 'bag' will then be turned the right way round and the Sunvisor slotted into it. The final stage would be sealing the open end with an external hand-stitch matching how a leather steering wheel cover is closed. I can't remember the name of that kind of stitch.
I wonder if they used any adhesive?
@Will does the material feel loose over the visor inside or do you think it's been stuck?
I'm only a novice/amateur but I do have a sewing machine, so now I've seen this I might be willing to give it a go. I'm not bothered about the vanity mirror so I'd be happy to cover it up too.
I think it’s been stuck. There’s a little bit of give but not much.
Speaking of which, if you do the sunroof panel too my advice would be to only glue around the edges and then stretch the material across the middle. Otherwise it follows the contours of the panel and looks odd.
(This is very obvious but I didn’t realise the slightly spongy material would show the contours as badly as it did! So I had to have two takes)
I need to get a replacement headliner but I like the original design so it means buying the fabric from Heritage andgetting it stuck on a glassfibre shell. It won't be cheap, hence it's on the back-burner !
I need to get a replacement headliner but I like the original design so it means buying the fabric from Heritage andgetting it stuck on a glassfibre shell. It won't be cheap, hence it's on the back-burner !
It's worth noting the fabric from Heritage, whilst a good pattern match (they sent me a sample when it was in production and I helped sign off on it), is not foam-backed like the original.
If applied directly to the headliner it will show every bump and lump and will need to be 100% perfect to look halfway decent.
To be factory restored, you would need the backboard lined with a skrim foam first.
On a positive, if you do go ahead with the Heritage pattern you won't need to retrim the sunroof panel, visors or courtesy light surround.
I need to get a replacement headliner but I like the original design so it means buying the fabric from Heritage andgetting it stuck on a glassfibre shell. It won't be cheap, hence it's on the back-burner !
Yeah, whatever, you do, don't use the original headliner, I've tried twice now with various glues etc, longest it's lasted is two years.
The liner is just dissolving at this point and taking the glue with it.
I did ask if headliner world could retrim one of their headliners in the original patterned fabric from VW heritage - they got a sample and gave it a go, but apparently found it very difficult to make it look good because the fabric wasn’t at all stretchy so didn’t fill the creases and corners very well.
It might be possible to get a good result, perhaps there are different techniques that could be employed.
Thanks
@Monkey @Eddypeck and
@Will. Interesting to know your experiences. I'll ponder over the solution a bit longer!
I think I'd need a professional to do it.