Volvo 740 Fabric

HI All,
The interior ceiling fabric is coming loose. There are two 'airbubbles"
really big that turned up suddenly. It's not wet or anything so can't be a
sunroof clog.. I can't figure out what happen. Anyone seen this happend
before? It seems like the only way this can happen is if the fabric
stretched but someone would have to pull on it for this to happen.

The same thing happend to my dad's 760. Same place where the fabric came
lose. His remedy was thumbtacks yuck!

Frank
Vancouver, Canada

 

This is the achilles heal of the 700 series, at least up until a certain
year they all do it, the foam rots and there's nothing you can do to prevent
or fix it other than removing the headliner and reupholstering it. I just
finished mine a couple months ago and on a sedan it's an enormous job, to
get the headliner in/out you have to bend it nearly to the point of it
snapping and that was with all the seats and the center console out. On a
wagon it's much easier but still very tedious to scrape all the old foam
off.

 

It seems Volvo had brain failure with 700 headlinings - this is a
recurring topic. The fabric is coming away from the headlining shell -
I think the foam backing collapses. You could try cutting a little
hole and spraying aerosol fabric adhesive behind it, but the long term
answer is going to be replacement.

Have a look here:

http://www.ipdusa.com/pdf/PI-240headliner700.pdf
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Stewart Hargrave


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May want to look at this forum:

http://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/InteriorTrimandPanels.htm

Good luck,
Joe

 

One other thing I can add, if I were to do it again, I'd have someone come
pull the windshield and then reinstall it when the headliner is done.

 

I need to do this myself, but my goodness, isn't that a little overkill?
Isn't there another way?

So essentially, your saying the ipd kit is not very user friendly?

 

The IPD kit is fine, though you can buy everything in the kit minus their
instructions for a lot less elsewhere. There's just no easy way to do it,
the headliner was installed before the glass was in the factory and was
never designed to come out through the doors. It can be done, but when you
try it the first time you'll swear it can't. At the very least try it in a
wrecking yard before you tear into your own car.