Omg decided to go the DIY route on my Chrysler Crossfire and everything went perfectly, getting it out, getting the board cleaned off and no clips broken. Bought the correct spray glue and liner fabric and was ready to put it back together and hubby and his buddy who have zero crafting skills, AND YES u need some mad crafting skills for this type of project to work. Well they decide while I’m off to the veterinarians office with a sick cat today that they are gonna “fix” the car and “help” me finish my project.

Although it was a kind jesture…..I can tell u when I got home and saw what had occurred I bawled like a little baby lol. All my hard careful work shot all to hell!

One of them decided instead of using the shop vac to get the rolled up little teeny balls of glue that I had missed or wasn’t actually finished with but they didn’t know it, they decided to use an air tool with a blade or pad on it. It wasn’t bad enough that he / them decided to do it once but had to hit it about 4 times with it and it’s right in the middle of the passenger side head area and it looks as though I had a bear trapped in the car at one time or another.

Then they used gloves when they put the shell back in the car after the new material was sprayed and attached BUT the gloves were the same ones they had been using to work on the engine of a race car earlier which meant they were covered in black grease…. not good on a grey headliner.

They got the glue on the exterior of the fabric and tried to just wipe it off and well, u can just imagine what a nice sweet little mess that is.

NOW after all that I have to admit I was upset, no very upset! Lol and wanted to wrap my fingers around both of their necks but I realized they were just trying to be helpful and maybe I could just attempt to clean up the grease and glue and just not look at the claw marks lol that was until I opened the trunk………around the top edge where the shell meets the rubber there was almost no fabric on the shell!!! I just did not and could not understand how one of them could have had the old fabric as a pattern and still cut the new stuff that short, it just didn’t make any sense. I ask my husband and he said it was his buddy oh and did I say his buddy had said he had done several of these before and used to do this for a living? So my husband was thinking hey ….professional right? WRONG!!! He never took inventory of any of the trim pieces so he had no idea which edges would be covered and which wouldn’t. He ASSUMED it woukd have a piece of trim to go across the back from side to side and ummm NOPE. He not only cut it to short he cut it like a 4 yr old would cut his little sisters hair, all ziz zaggy and choppy. Talk. About a disaster! It was so ugly and then he takes MORE GLUE and slathers it all across the edge on the outside back there . It was so nasty looking.

If he was in the new headliner business and was to be paid for his services, he would be paying ME for PAIN AND SUFFERING lol having to witness seeing what he/ they did to my car!

Oh one more thing, I bought enough liner material for 2 vehicles.I have an older pick up that needs a new one too and now I guess I will be ordering another double roll. Also since I can’t find any of those hard shells to start from scratch I guess I’m gonna have my work cut out for me cause now I will have to use some Bondo to fill in the gaps and claw marks from the drill or power tools!.

Like I said it was good intentions that just went bad. I just want to know why when it comes to all things cars and automobiles men just refuse to believe women actually can do a job quite possibly BETTER THAN THEY CAN AND THEY DO NOT NEED THEM MEDDLING AND INTERFERING!!!! — DIY-er