Greetings New 850 owner in Canada

Where are you located? I recently helped a new owner with his recently imported Japanese Spec E31. I am in Langley BC just outside Vancouver where your car will likely be unloaded. We need to talk. I have 2 Brilliant Red 91's and am not an axe murderer.

Contact me via email at wuffer@shaw.ca
Tom

Hi and welcome to the club.

The thing in the Trunk is the factory stereo amplifier. The phone box would be there also if it has a factory phone.

Wuffer
What do you use if not an Axe?

Kinda partial to the garrotte I have...

AH Good choice

Niether of my cars has the pass-thru. Terry's does, Is it retrofittable? Yes, if you want to cut a hole on the bulkhead and purchase all of the parts you will need to do the job right.
I was serious about the "we need to talk" comment in my earlier post. Contact me via email at wuffer@shaw.ca with your phone number and I will call you at a convenient time.
Tom

Welcome, and to answer your question, yes they all sag. I've heard that it is just as easy and no more expensive to just order a replacement headliner from the dealer, than to try and fix an old one. Something about the backing on the material disentigrating over time. Anyway, supposed to be an easy fix that you can do on your own. Good luck. Mine is next on the list, just hoping to make it till summer without it starting to fall on my head. By the way, you really should contact Wuffer. He is one of the most knowledgeable guys out there on our cars, and he probably knows something about getting your car into the country leagally that you need to know.

Cheers,

Paul

Watch out for that ''Wuffer'' bloke mate,

any one that has two red 8's must have have an axe someplace handy!

The price of a replacement headliner where I am is 10 times the repair cost so re lining is the answer for Aussie 8 ers. The material is foam backed, approx 2 maybe 3mm of foam and it doesnt stand up to time especially in hot climates (perhaps that's why the UK blokes dont have a problem). The foam turns orange and simply disintegrates. The headliner is a 20 minute job to remove and glueing a new cover on is no big deal but get a quite on repair and compare to a new one. If the new is not much more the get it in preference to letting an enthusiastic trimmer cut loose!

Next time I visit my daughter in Whistler I will be looking for a couple of guys to talk some "s#@t with so maybe you Cannukers will have formed a friendship and will welcome a bloke from the underside of the planet for a few cold brown fizzie drinks!

Cheers boys

No probs over here with headliners as theo says so there is an upside to living in our climate.

Just a thought, do the White coloured cars get effected too!

Next time there I might be buying a motor home to bring back here and will most likely visit family in Welland and St Catherines. So a drive from East to west is a high probability.

An 8 fest along the way would be real nice to include in CDN. Guess if I planned it well the boys across on Georges side of the fence might also have a gathering happening Perhaps I could entice them with some Fosters beer. Does Molson still have the blue labels? Maybe they wouldnt notice the difference?

And Hey Parksie, good question on the white ones. Im not sure if it's age or heat that kills them. Mine is a red 94 which was just starting two years back.

Cheers guys

Here's a ski bag passthru I found on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors…05QQitemZ8045668782QQrdZ1

I have no trouble with the head liner. But then I live less than 10 miles from Steve. It definitely could be the weather. Try not to get any sun on the roof of the car. Ever. That should do it.

Headliners are good in both my cars from the standpoint of the sagging issue. However if you press on the headliner (as in stretching during a long trip) it leaves dimples in the headliner that dont come back out - a sure sign that the foam backing is breaking down. Some local guys have had success having headliners re-upholstered using a thin headliner material, Don't use the normal thickness as it will make the headliner very difficult to re-install and cause some binding in the sunroof. Learned the hard way.