I have been putting off the headlining replacement for a couple of years now and didn't want to do it in all honesty. It became a problem though when I had some passengers in the back and to see them sitting there with the headlining draped over their heads was the crunch moment for me. Add to that we are going on holiday in the car next week I felt it just had to be done.
Is it a PITA job? Yes absolutely.
Is it difficult? No not really, but it does take time and some patience.
I used the guide on here written by Dopey
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/roof-lining-fix.171394/ and as a sanity check one on the US RangeRover.net site
http://www.rangerovers.net/repairdetails/headliner.html.
If I were to give any advice on the job I just say choose the fabric carefully if you have a sunroof, as if it's too thick and this is to do with the backing foam on headlining material it will cause you issues with the sunblind. Clean everything and keep your hands clean when doing the recover. You need to have space and time to this work as the headlining moulding is large. You also need a dry day for when you take out the sunroof because it will be out of the car for a while. In my case it took 4 hours just to deal with the sunroof element of the job, but I tend to work slowly and methodically.
The hardest part of the whole thing is the cleanup of the headlining moulding and the sunroof blind so it's ready to accept new glue. Do not shortcut this process.
For many it can be done in a single weekend. For me It will have taken 2 weekends worth of time in total as I'll be putting the headlining back in tonight.
As an idea this is the sort of time it takes:
- 1 hour to get the old headlining moulding out of the car.
- 10 minutes to remove the old cloth from the moulding.
- 4 or so hours to clean up the moulding of old sticky foam residue. (I probably spent more like 6 hours here)
- 2 hours approx to glue, fit and trim the new material onto the moulding.
- 4 hours to remove sunroof cassette and deal with sunblind recover then refit the cassette.
- 1 hour to clean up the pillar mouldings ready for refitting.
- Am expecting to take 2 hours or so putting the headlining moulding and all the other bits back.
I'll post a picture of the end result. Whatever happens it has to be better than is was.