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On 21 May 2003 at 11:18, FireStation10a wrote: > Last week, scraper clips, this > week- headliners! I have the late model Notch and when the old crappy > headliner was removed, I saved the bows and the 12 little spring/hooks > on the end of each bow. I can't tell if the headliner was original or > not, but it was off white, and not perforated but it did have holes > printed on it. The thing is, the spring/hooks shaped like this : > ____ > ,////// ] ,clip into the channel over the windows while > the bows fit into the space just under the roof. It seems to me that > they provide more of an arch to the headliner to make it look fuller. I have some of those springs; they were used in all the type 3 models AFAIK. I have a bunch of them and there is at least ONE of the other little window clips that you were also looking for. You certainly NEED 2 of those little spring things for every bow. The late headliner material that I'm familiar with has the dots printed on the front section only, while the rest of the headliner is actually perforated. Replacements only seem to have the perforated stuff. > Could be wrong, don't know how they quite function, but I do know that > being springs, they do travel far when pushed too far (I'll try to post > some pics in the AM, this is probably too oblique a description without > them). AAR, can anyone say if these little buggers are > stock-aftermarket-needed or what? Towards that end, anyone know of a > good site for a little instruction of headliner replacement? I have a > Bug tutorial and one for a Square, neither of which are too helpful. I found that I had to trim the sections where the bows went to look like the originals. Even then I couldn't get all the wrinkles out, but it fit a lot better after trimming. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org