Well after talking about it for rather a long time i felt the urge to pull my finger out and get it sorted

You will have to get your thinking caps on for this one as it is more a pain in the ass to do rather than hard
Well here are the total amount of tools you will need to be able to remove the interior trim and the head liner  

From left to right:-

Nail scissors, Philips screw driver, pliers, Ratchet 1/4 extension, 10mm socket, 17mm socket.

The scissors are a prefernce for me to remove the small screw caps that hold the sun visors in place as it does not cause any damage to the plastic cap´s.

ok it will be easier to show this in steps but this is so easy to remove and takes me about 15min to get the head liner out as i used to do this for a living lol
normaly if you take your time it should take about 30-45min to complete.

You can chose where to start as it is not really important if you ask me

Remove the seat belt anchors on the B and C pillars

Remove the interior front light plastic cover and you will find 2 Phillips screws and with a light pull it will come out.

The RED marked areas  are where you will find more Philips screws that you will need to remove.

Take care when removing the plastic cap from around the sun visor hook that you don´t snap it off SO DON`T pry off the hook part 

Use a verry small flat head screw driver and slide it between the hook and the cover from the front and leaver it towards the windscreen and it will come off BUT TAKE CARE.

To remove the A pillar trim´s all you have to do it get your fingers in the top by the roof liner and pull as it is only cliped in place and should be quite easy to shift
the same goes for the B pillar covers apart from that you need to slide them up to remove them from the bottom half of the trim.

You should be left with this

As for the rear C pillar covers you will need the 10mm socket and extension to remove 2 metal nuts on either side behind the carpet.

Removing the sun visors by prying the small plastic covers from the anchor on the far left and right
marked in red

You will also have to pull the door rubbers down enough to free them from the head liner  as this holds it in place rather firmly 

Once you can see no other parts are holding the head liner in place just keep giving it a push and a shove till it comes free  BUT be careful not to damage it in any way as they cost a small fortune 

if you recline your front seats it will make it better and then you can see the wiring loom that is attached to the underside  of the head liner and if you follow the cables down to the LEFT hand A pillar right in the corner by the dash board you will see 2 black plugs that you will need to undo to detach the roof loom from the rest of the car.

The head liner should slide out the boot with ease but try and have someone to lend a hand because if the car has a sun roof then the head liner is quid flimsy on the edges.

NOW FOR THE pain in the ass bit

Covering the roof is something you need to do as it is just preference how you want to do it but make sure you get a material that will stretch or life will be hell for you along the way due to all the curves and sharp corners like where the grab handle recesses are.

Take your time and only spray the glue about 6 inches at a time starting from the rear of the head liner and take care not to get glue on the outer surface as it is a right mare to get off
Once you have the head liner covered you can then cut around the edges, but make sure to leave enough to be able to fold around and stick on the underside, about an inch is enough.

I chose to paint all the grey plastics with plastic BLACK SATIN paint

I will be replacing all of this along the way for the OEM black plastics just to get the desired finish but i must say it does look good

The glue is used cost about 3-4 quid a tin and have used about 1 and a half tins of glue to do the job.

Replace the head liner once finished in the reverse and just make sure all the bits and joins have a nice snug fit and you will not go far wrong 

I will put up some pics of the finished car tomorrow as it was dark when i had  finished

I will use the same back paint to coat the door rubbers to hide the still grey bits so it all blends in .

HAVE FUN and don´t make a mess like i did lol

Andy 

Nice write up Andy

Looks good Andy

Looking forward to seeing the finished article, don't think I'd have the balls to try that myself though

Neil

It was not bad to be honest just a bit tedious towards the end lol

Plenty of coffee, fags and swearing

Stress free my ass  

AND you can see hoe minging my head liner was  

Looks good Andy 

Looking forward to seeing the finished article, well done !

will look cool... i just dont think i could deal with the  hassle of doing it !...

nice stuff so far... black interior is awesome.... carry on...

i am going to leave the seat belt covers and lights grey just to break it up a bit

The car feels so small from inside now but looks the mutt´s nuts  

I will put some more pics up later when i am down at the beach  

junglisteve:

will look cool... i just dont think i could deal with the  hassle of doing it !...

nice stuff so far... black interior is awesome.... carry on...

ya its a pain in the ass.

looks good andy, out of interest where did you get the material from, and how much?

Regards

Firstly excellent write up.

 What material did you use, i was thinking alcantara. But for that price??

Mite be doing this myself next week

Rich

type-rich:

Firstly excellent write up.

 What material did you use, i was thinking alcantara. But for that price??

Mite be doing this myself next week

Rich

 

Well it was not so clear cut after about 2-3 weeks the glue started to losen and the roof liner saged like dumbo's ass LOL

if you use spray glue make sure you get a glue that is a higher temp than the MAX 50 degree i used at first then later re did the lot with MAX 80 degree and has been fine ever since LOL

the only shock i got was how small the car felt inside after doing it and due to the fact that this is a motorway munching tool carier rather than a show car it has held up very well and still looks like new

I still have the A B and C posts to do when i ever find the time or energy and thoughts are into changing the engine again for something with a little more grunt like the 3.6L V6 from the passat  then stage 2 HGP slaped on for the sake of it so should be good for munching the miles a bit quicker he he he

i got the fabric from a local shop and she said lots of chavs use it for covering spearker boxes and the likes so i thought PERFECT and at 20 quid for 6 square meteres you cant go wrong and the added bonus that the amount of wind and road noise is reduced even more

 

Andy

 

 

Dent Reform:

 thoughts are into changing the engine again for something with a little more grunt like the 3.6L V6 from the passat  then stage 2 HGP slaped on for the sake of it so should be good for munching the miles a bit quicker he he he

Is that the one I PM'd you about Andy ?

Niel

HE HE

Yup but he does not want t6o sell the engine and trans on it's own and i dont want all that 4 MOTION grief LOL

Looking at HGP with the stage 2 kit it should take the car to a V-MAX of 280KMH but i think with some transmision mods i can get her to do 300KMH or about 180MPH and this will ALSO be a first in the UK with a MK4 golf with the 3.6 engine and FWD not to mention what i have already done so far

LOL, you still owe me that ride in your car as well

I can't wait to see how you shoe horn that under the bonnet, it is going to be quite a project.

Neil