How to Recover Your VW Golf Mk4 Headliner – Fix a Sagging Headliner – Car Headliner Repair

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The only way to repair a drooping headliner is to totally replace the fabric covering and wiring brushing off the loose foam.  Use a drill gun with a rotating wire brush tool. Anything else is pure torture.

Removing the headliner from a Mk4 VW Golf:

Additionally the fabric on the door panels is sagging and falling off:

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A more in depth demonstration of how to get the fabric to conform to the door card panel.

Research Links

• YouTube: how to remove mk4 golf headliner
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If you headliner is sagging then your door card fabric panels are probably drooping also.  You will need to cover them also:

Removing 2 door VW Golf Mk4 rear speaker panels

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Added Notes

• Youtube: TUTORIAL: HOW TO remove rear seats VW Golf Mk4 (coupe), Bora, Jetta in 8 simple steps!

To do the card panels in your front door see how to remove the panel in the window replacement videos.

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