Thread: Any hot tips while ive got my headliner out?

Originally Posted by shayne86

They are in surprisingly good condition. Not a drop of rust anywhere except on top of the front window on the driver's side (which i already knew of)

Every time I wash my Chawton White car, it looks like a zebra from the alpine window sealant.

I didn't replace the fabric on my Defender heading shell. Instead, I cleaned all the rotten foam of with one of these, then painted it with low sheen acrylic paint matched to the colour of the sun visors. I'm very pleased with the result and many have made favourable comments. It gives a wipe-able surface.

Don.

Originally Posted by Don 130

I didn't replace the fabric on my Defender heading shell. Instead, I cleaned all the rotten foam of with one of these, then painted it with low sheen acrylic paint matched to the colour of the sun visors. I'm very pleased with the result and many have made favourable comments. It gives a wipe-able surface.

Don.

Yeah I'm going to paint mine.

Originally Posted by Discosux

Put a later model key fob receiver in - if its possible to sync the later model with the BCU?
much easier to get fobs for the plastic headlight models.

The early 315 Mhz frequency is basically for this use, still used for remote controllers that are a lot less prone to interference. The later 433 Mhz (shared low power channel that anyone from hobbyist to commercial can use) that everything seems to be on these days cops a lot of interference and I had to sort out a situation for a client where a local ham operator was causing his home alarm and garage doors to operate erratically. His car is a late model but fob is 315 so was all good.

The BCU only gets a comms signal from the fob receiver so you can interchange no probs.

No probs getting 315 Mhz fobs

Originally Posted by johnp38

The early 315 Mhz frequency is basically for this use, still used for remote controllers that are a lot less prone to interference. The later 433 Mhz (shared low power channel that anyone from hobbyist to commercial can use) that everything seems to be on these days cops a lot of interference and I had to sort out a situation for a client where a local ham operator was causing his home alarm and garage doors to operate erratically. His car is a late model but fob is 315 so was all good.

The BCU only gets a comms signal from the fob receiver so you can interchange no probs.

No probs getting 315 Mhz fobs

Actually this could be a great thing for those of us wanting to get the remote SLS Plip, the 315mhz ones are much cheaper if I remember rightly!

https://www.ebay.com/p/1933867953

Interested, obviously the keys have to be replaced as well and programmed, is that all???

Sound proof as much as you can mine was done years ago works a treat.

Originally Posted by laney

Sound proof as much as you can mine was done years ago works a treat.

Glad to hear from someone who has done it. Definately on my list now. Cheers mate

How about running some trailer 7 core cable (or 2 lots) to the roof console from one of the footwells so you can add switches etc later without messing with the headlining. in fact from your pics it looks like you can possibly pre run cables through those roof channels to the back for future use while at it.