CrossfireDiva

.... Possible to find? I would like to stick with the factory Alcantara. By the time I am finally finished with this Pano ordeal, I am sure it will need it. Already coming up at the front. Where can I find it?

Fountain35

Take the headliner to a local upholstery shop, they should be able to match the current liner and either fix or repair it.

Yuille36

+1

MACEDON

Crystal clear!

CrossfireDiva

I plan on doing it myself... How can I obtain the OE material? I very rarely ever hire anyone to do any work on my cars.

Fountain35

Same deal, just take them a sample and they can match it. They usually don't charge much to do the labor might be worth it to let them do it. I think I paid ~$125-$150 for the job not including the material.

hachiroku

its made from the hair of albino yak's of which they spend 30 days of the lunar sun in Alaska dying the material to the specification provided by Affalterbach.

BlownV8

It's first grown in vitro with Tibetan munk tears as the medium for the egg to develop. It is then shipped to a white dwarf in the Andromeda galaxy where it incubates for 50 years. After incubation, it is recovered by aliens that we do not know where they are from nor do we ask. Once it arrives back on Earth, it is surgically implanted into the yak.....

CrossfireDiva

You guys are sooo helpful. I am sure I will figure it out. But I will be doing the work myself.

BlownV8

Ebay, Amazon, google/yahoo search. It's readily available.

MSG 55G

any idea on how to clean soda stains on alcantara headliner? Seriously, it's soda stain, let 16 y/o son drove car for 3 years before I took it back.

tlambert

MSG 55G

yep, that's how I tricked wife on buying E55...got it in 2010 ($28k) and let son have it for his junior year of high school through his freshmen year of college. Then I got it back and now full-bolt on mods. Not a bad plan.

dustinN

I had to replace it with suede leather for $500. It looks pretty good. Dealer quoted more than double.

90lxracer

Bringing this back from the dead... and curious as to where you took your car? Being in VA if it's not good awful away.. i'm all about that kind of pricing! lol

BTW I'm right by the base at Quantico.

Thanks!

Yuille36

Sonax Upholstery and Alcantara Cleaner

Yuille36

And I'm right up the road in Annandale

Fountain35

I'm in Va. Beach. Don't have my car but when I get it back I can swing by the place and get an estimate, our cars are identical twins! (He did my Jaguar and my Saab)

90lxracer

That would be greatly appreciated!

kenneyd

I couldn't find a match but the found the OEM is quite robust for re-use
Its a pain in the but, but the whole headliner comes out the passenger door. scrape off the deteriorated foam, use contact cement from a quart can, NOT the 3m spray stuff.
Came out great.

90lxracer

I'm going ot see about holding out for hopefully sourcing the right material. for now.. lol

mekantor

Bringing this back up from long ago!

I need to refresh the headliner. I took it out once to re-glue it myself, it didn't turn out too well. New fabric is needed.

I've been to 2 local upholstery shops, reputable places which work on high-end and classic cars. Each one told me that the matching fabric they can source would be very difficult to apply to the W211 headliner, because of the curvatures in it, the fabrics aren't sufficiently stretchy.

Have any of you found a fabric which is stretchy/flexible and matches the original grey Alcantara? One shop I spoke with can get black Alcantara which should be stretchy and match the curves, but I'm not too interested in that since I'll have to do all pillars, and get matching black handles/visors/panels.

Yuille36

I haven't had any issues with the headliner on my e63, but I did have Alcantara fabric installed on the piano black dash trim on my BMW X5M. The upholstery shop ordered the Alcantara on my behalf.
It had a foam backing that offered more cushioning. I was told that the OE Alcantara was from Italy, and that is truly the only place to get the original material from.
Honestly, I did think that you'll be able to source the original color of texture, but good luck.