Carpet, Mats & Headliner

You can pin or glue it and buy some time, and both are visibly temporary. Sagging happens because the foam between the fabric and the board has broken down into powder with heat and age, so there is nothing left for adhesive to bond to, and spraying glue through the fabric leaves hard patches that show. The lasting options are re covering the existing board with fresh foam backed fabric, or fitting a replacement headliner. The second is faster and gives a factory finish, and it is listed here in the factory colours.

Use the colour name in the listing rather than your judgement of the photograph. Factories name interior shades, using descriptions such as Dove Grey, Dark Black 5 and Eclipse Blue 3, and several of those look nearly identical on a screen while differing obviously in daylight. The name usually appears on the vehicle build record, and a dealer can confirm it from your vehicle identification number. If you are ordering several trim parts, confirm the name once and use it consistently across the whole order.

It is achievable and it is awkward, mainly because of size. Everything attached to the roof comes down first: visors and their brackets, grab handles, interior lamps, pillar trims and the rear shelf area, then the board itself comes out through a tailgate or a folded rear seat, sometimes only just. Reassembly needs a second pair of hands to avoid creasing the new board. Budget a long afternoon, work slowly with proper trim tools, and photograph each fastener before it comes out.

Look at the two ends before ordering. If the visor pivots loosely at its main mount, the visor assembly itself has worn and is replaced complete. If it flops down because it no longer clips into the hook near the mirror, the retaining bracket has broken, and that is a small, cheap part listed separately here in matching colours. Owners often replace the whole visor when only the bracket has failed. Check both, and match the colour name for whichever part you order.

Find the water first, or the new carpet will be wet in a month. The usual sources are a blocked scuttle drain at the base of the windscreen, a lifted vapour barrier inside a door, a blocked sunroof drain running down the pillar, or a seam sealer failure in the floor pan. Only when the leak is fixed and the floor has dried is replacement worthwhile. A soaked carpet also holds water in its backing layer, which is what causes the persistent smell and the corrosion beneath it.

Three jobs at once. It hides the boot contents, it closes the acoustic path between the load area and the cabin so road noise does not arrive unfiltered, and on many cars it carries the rear speakers and the high level brake lamp aperture. That is why a broken or missing shelf makes a car noticeably noisier as well as untidier. Shelves are moulded to the specific body and trim, so they are matched by OE number and colour name rather than by measuring the aperture.

Visor brackets, small trim panels and boot mats sit at the bottom of the range. Sun visors and parcel shelves are modest. Complete headliner assemblies and full floor carpet sets sit at the top, and their shipping costs reflect their size rather than their weight, since neither can be folded without damage. The live minimum and maximum are shown in the band at the top of this page, and each listing carries its own figure or a quote button.

Not necessarily, because the board is moulded around the options the car was built with. A sunroof aperture, a panoramic roof, a roof mounted console, rear vents, additional lamps and different grab handle positions all change the moulding, and none of that is apparent from the model name. Match the OE number and confirm the option content. Colour is a second filter on top of that. Where your number returns nothing, the quote form has the factory catalogue checked directly rather than approximated.

Carefully and in one piece, because a headliner cannot be folded and a crease is permanent. Expect a long, light, bulky package whose shipping class reflects its size rather than its weight, and expect a longer lead time than a small part. Floor carpets are similar. Inspect the package before accepting it and unpack it flat. If you are having a workshop fit the part, have it delivered there rather than storing it at home, since a headliner leant against a wall for a fortnight rarely comes out straight.

No, and this category separates them. A boot felt mat assembly covers the load floor and is shaped to the specific boot, often incorporating the tool box or spare wheel access. Floor carpet is the moulded covering of the passenger compartment, glued and clipped in place and supplied as a large single piece or as a front carpet assembly. Loose overmats that sit on top of the carpet are accessories and live elsewhere on the site. Check which one the listing describes before ordering.

Substantially, and more than most people expect on a quiet car. The headliner board damps roof drumming, the carpet backing blocks noise from the floor pan, and the parcel shelf closes the path from the boot. Remove or replace any of them with a thinner substitute and you will hear the difference at motorway speed. That is why the factory parts are specified by acoustic performance as well as appearance, and why matching the original reference is worth doing on a vehicle whose cabin was quiet when new.

Yes. Soft trim is the classic case for a quote, because a headliner or a floor carpet exists in several interior colours and each colour is its own factory number. Give the reference and the interior colour code from the vehicle label, and the reply covers the right shade rather than a close one. Shipping matters here too: a one piece headliner is light but very bulky, so the delivered figure is worth having before you commit. If the headliner sagged rather than tore, ask about the adhesive as well, since some cases are a bonding job.