Hi all, the headliner has dropped on my 987.2... Does anyone have a recommendation for a shop to replace it ,preferably in Westchester County, just north of NYC? Or is it a simple enough job to just do it myself?

 

Check with the local PDR shops. Pedro Bonilla says that many do them for relatively short money. I did mine myself 2 years ago. Not that hard.

 

I attempt to do just about everything myself but I think this is a job a novice could do. Here is a bigger article I did on Cayman interior work. Once you load the article, do a CtrlF on Headliner to find some specific tips. The most painful part is paying for a replacement factory headliner! There are some DIY youtubes out there where folks have stripped the old material and glued on new material. It is hard to find material that is an exact match but there are also searchable threads here on R-L and elsewhere with suggestions on where folks have bought material.

https://newhillgarage.com/2022/09/28...moval-refresh/

Removing Porsche interior parts the first time can be maddening, as you need xray vision to know where to pry at! I hope my article helps.

 

Thanks, Harvey, that's a really helpful article!

 

If anyone has a dropped headliner on a 987.2 Cayman, this kit for 14 bucks worked great for me:






You may elect to put a push pin in all the places you want a button. I suggest you begin in the center of the top.



When you are ready to proceed:



Fit a snap over a screw.

Pull out a push pin.

Insert screw/snap in pin hole.

Drive screw with the miniature Phillips screwdriver until the snap is snug.

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If the screw strips before the snap snugs up, you have hit a plastic standoff. Do NOT drill a pilot hole. What if the drill were to snag the headliner? No, I didn't try.



Using a proper Philips screwdriver with lots of end-force, drive the screw into the plastic standoff until the snap is snug.

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When all the snaps are in-place, look and see if the layout looks OK. I tried to follow a pattern of triangles wherein each snap was 100mm from the snaps around it. The curve of the top makes this impossible, so I modified it here and there.



Then just snap on all the buttons. I ordered the kit with the black buttons. They seem to match the black headliner fairly-well.



Now all that's left is to figure out what to do with the 80 push pins and 80 helical pins they gave you.



If you decide later that your Cayman needs to be concours, you can still rip it all out and put in a new headliner.