Attachment of dome light to headliner?

[FivepointSlow]

Bought my car with only half the interior. I had to order a ABS headliner from LateModelResto aswell as the plastic cover for the dome light, as I had the dome light but that was missing for some reason...

Anyways the headliner went up great, I have a pole holding up the front passenger side because I still need to locate a passenger side A-pillar cover. I tried attaching the dome light, and the ABS headliner has a hole cut out in the plastic part of it for the dome light, but not the cloth. So I went ahead and made a slit for the tab on the dome light to go through and I tried securing it with the screws in the dome light... But it just sagged there (being that the only thing holding it as the cloth on the headliner...), and after about a month it ended up falling off, and keep in mind I'm almost never in my interior, car hasn't moved since installing the headliner, and it hasn't even left my property in 2 years. So nothing hit it, there was no vibration or anything to cause it to fall, just lost grip on the cloth over time.

So my question is what is the proper way to attach the dome light to the headliner? I had no headliner before so I have nothing to go off of.

 

[OnyxCobra]

there's a little plastic piece that slips up into the hole in the headliner and kinda hooks in, like you twist it and the tabs lock into place sorta thing. then the dome light screws into that.

 

[ttocs]

if your interior is tan I am parting out a tan interior 95 gt. Pm me if you want that a-pillar or need any other parts.

abs headliner? Can you get a pic of where you are at? I am confused myself.

 

[FivepointSlow]

It's just an aftermarket headliner. More durable than the cardboard backed oem ones. Anyone have a picture of these hooks? I have a bin of misc parts that I was given with the car... Maybe I have it laying around and don't realize it.
ill PM you now... My interior is all black but I have no problem painting the pillar. I'm buying a driver side airbag that's a different shade black than mine so I have to paint that too.

 

[ttocs]

well the stock headliner is glued, no its actually closer to welded to be honest. I was amazed at how hard I had to work to get it unstuck from the roof. I am fairly certain ford has reverse engineered some kind of alien technology that allows them too weld cardboard too steel. When I recovered mine I think I put a couple dabs of silicon on the panel prior to finally putting it into place.

 

[OnyxCobra]

+1 to being welded, Ford used an entire container of extra strength glue per headliner I think.

 

[ttocs]

when I went too pull mine out, after struggling for a while I found a nice piece of aluminum flat-stock that I thught I could slide between the roof and panel and then use that too pry the header panel out. I was absolutely frightened to see how much the roof was flexing while they separated and I actually ended up with a small indentation that I will be working out now when I paint it hopefully in spring.

Now the light itself I thought there were 2 scres that held the housing in place. One I am fairly sure acted as a ground for the light but not sure about any hooks. Can you get some pics of where you are stuck to help us see?

 

[FivepointSlow]

That's the thing... The screws make sense to hold it in place except there is nowhere for the screws to go...

Can't screw through the thin roof. So I don't get it. I guess I can take pictures in the morning of the holes in my headliner and the side of the dome light that meets the headliner . I just don't get it.

 

[ttocs]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I see said the blind man.

pretty sure there is a small plastic base that is supposed to be mounted there.

Here look at this pic on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FORD-OEM-1L...994|Model:Mustang&hash=item4d1406c242&vxp=mtr

If that base is missing well good news I can snag that from my parts car to go with the pillar.

 

[OnyxCobra]

lol, see my first post.

 

[ttocs]

You just edited that right? Swear I never saw it so now the blind man joke is 2x as funny huh?

 

[OnyxCobra]

lol I didn't edit it, it would say if I did.

 

[ttocs]

well then I will edit mine so I don't seem as stupid as normal

 

[sn95 bullitt]

I have a black apiller for sell. Lmk cheap cheap cheap

 

[FivepointSlow]

Unless you can beat getting my like 4 interior parts for $30 then I'll be buying from ttcos. Lol