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Title: Check these out.
Post by: Blazin on March 04, 2008, 04:55:20 pm

My Lumina Van has the typical saggy cloth headliner. I saw these at Wal Mart, cheap. I bought two packages and they work slicker than you know what on a door knob. I wouldn't use them on a show rig, but for an every day driver or work rigthey are perfect.

http://www.headsuponline.com/product-details.php?id=10

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: VileZambonie on March 04, 2008, 04:56:42 pm

Kinda hard to see how they work... do you have pix?

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Post by: Redneckchevy on March 04, 2008, 06:02:34 pm

i like the old thumb tacks... nothing like sitting on a thumb tack in the morning on ur way to work...Gets u ready for putting up with ur boss ;)

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Blazin on March 04, 2008, 06:05:55 pm

I tried the thumb tack bit. Put one in, put second one in, put third one in, first one falls out, repeat.
They are basically a cork screw type deal with a little clear plastic head on them. Stick it in a little and turn it till it stops, or the headliner is tight.
 I like how it says on the package and the web site " For temporary repair " Yeah right, temporary until it goes to the bone yard! Think that will be a while for my van. When I am done with it on the road I want to put it on a Blazer frame and wheel the wee out of it!

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: red4wd on March 04, 2008, 06:06:01 pm

My best friends old man owned an upholstery shop when we were growing up and we spent alot of time there I have seen everything from thumb tacks to fishing lures to duct tape trying to hold up the headliner.  The funniest thing was one dude had a truck like ours and was using those toothpicks from Sonic that have the little plastic things on the end holding his headliner up.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Dragon on March 07, 2008, 12:34:53 am

Ha that's what we call Valley Riggin around here ;D The Valley being Seattle's Rainier Valley Ghetto where I grew up, and quite a few of my fine neighbors have used so many of what has been said on here, even these Cork-Screw Pins :D

Their Replacement Headliner Material is cheap and very easy to use... I used some when it first came out(98/00) in my Bucket '86 Park Avenue, to get rid of the duct tape & thumb tack job it had when I first got the car!!!

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Blazin on March 07, 2008, 06:04:50 am

My Lumina will never get a new head liner. That would put my total investment into it over the last 3 years up over $2,000. That would be simply unacceptable!!! Besides when I am done with it I want to mount it on a K5 Blazer frame, and wheel the wee out of it.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: plowking_90 on March 07, 2008, 07:22:37 pm

you can go to your local walmart in the fabric section you can get a pack of like 10 for 97 cents and there the same thing you showed, they work pretty good better then any tack or pin

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Swims350 on March 07, 2008, 07:36:31 pm

they do work a LOT better then any stick pin seeing as that these twist in they don't fall out on their own.

I ran the cheapo's from the crafts section on my camaro for years, never had a problem with any of them.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Blazin on March 08, 2008, 12:59:00 am

I got mine at Wally World. I just put the link up so I didn't have to explain them and say they are at Wal Mart.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: DnStClr on March 08, 2008, 11:21:51 am

So when you look up you see a bunch of these white daisies, huh?   Nice.
 :D :D :D :

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Post by: the_legend_1981 on March 08, 2008, 12:50:44 pm

On my beretta i used to have i just stuck pennies up there and they worked great

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Post by: Swims350 on March 08, 2008, 01:30:21 pm

yea you see white or clear like mine or you just paint them.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: Blazin on March 08, 2008, 07:44:03 pm

Pennies?

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: the_legend_1981 on March 08, 2008, 08:11:37 pm

yeah i just pushed the pennies up in there sideways and they stuck into the foam behind the cloth part of the headliner. it kept it off my head anyway.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: DnStClr on March 11, 2008, 11:20:03 am

Geez, I just noticed my 92 Astro van has its headliner falling. Guess it's off to WalMart I go--.

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: gezn2 on March 12, 2008, 03:27:03 pm

My grandma had some of those when I was a kid, she used them to keep the doilies in place on chairbacks :)
I'm 'frugal' a staggered row of Arrow ceiling tile staples seems to work about as well as anything ;D

Title: Re: Check these out.
Post by: chevyguy5894 on March 13, 2008, 12:42:55 am

I look up in my vehicles and dont have to worry about that.... I have no headliner... ;D