Classics Saloons Forum

I was about to suggest the best solution for a Mk2 might be a compromise. Use the bows and something else (XJ like) to hold the fabric at the front and rear screens. Then I remembered that David Warr has effectively done that. It looks a great idea to me.

My car is nowhere close to the stage of fitting the roof liner, but I think it's the method I'd use. Another question arises for the stuff that Jaguar glued to the inside of the roof of Mk2s (or at least mine). It's underneath the headliner and is probably the source of most of the dirt in the fabric. It resembles a very powdery, dusty and decrepit carpet underlay. In spite of all that, it's very well attached to the roof. Taking it off looks like extremely dirty work. If I can't remove it, I'll try to spray it with something to stop the dust and then cover it with some sort of membrane so remaining dust can't spoil the new headlining.

As for the XJ, yes the cloth does seem to detach from whatever it's attached to. The one in my Daimler was replaced by a garage, but I don't know how they did it (all part of a long series of incidents). I'm pretty certain they didn't do it by removing screens. Unfortunately, the whole board is now sagging in the middle and I have to figure out how to adjust it or replace the whole lot. Mine may be a particular case as the car has a sunroof which reduces the stability of the board.

Hi Peter,
Underneath the MK2 headliner was a sound deadening material that was starting to deteriorate. Some of it wasn’t too bad and it was still well stuck to the roof. I lightly sanded the roof and then used contact cement to attach dynamat to replace the sound deadening in the areas that needed it. That worked well. The dynamat isn’t as thick as the original stuff but it doesn’t really matter.