Headliner, what's the difference, besides price?

[Shakenbake]

I'm shopping for a new headliner (Sunroof) and front & rear winshield rubber. Pelican has "Genuine German Vinyl" Ivory for the Sunroof Coupe for $132.50. Tweeks had an "Original Style" Ivory Sunroof Coupe Headliner for $54.99. Who has experience with this? A difference of $77.51 seems dramatic, even for Genuine German Vinyl. I guess one is German and the other is Domestic???

[Jim Sims]

I cannot tell you the exact difference but can relate the advice of a technician who moonlights for a Porsche restoration service in Florida. He has installed many of these headliners in 356's and 911's; he uses a pressurized glue pot with a little spray wand to apply the glue. He said buy the German version as it installs better and given the labor and effort involved this is not the place to try and save money on materials. We bought the German version but are yet to install it. Cheers, Jim

[Roland Kunz]

Hello

The difference is they look cheap and look always wrinkled plus they tear easier if you try to pull the wrinkles out. ( Based on the expiriences with a 356 headliner delivered from a large US Supplier and praised as the "best" aviable and even better then the original crap yet there money back waranty didn´t applied and we had been the only costumers critizizing and having problems so we are the jerks not knowing how to work with new materials ). The good thing is you can weld them with a flatiron and use a hairdryer to shrink fit some zones ( They shrink more then the original stuff but the surfaces will change a bit in structur ).

If your shoptime is paid with 50$ from the costumer those things are a missinvestment and only used if nothing else is aviable or satysfiying quality workmanship is the last word in your mind.

Grüsse