New Sagitar’s do-it-yourself daily maintenance: “Replacing Roof Trim Grid Cloth”

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 September 3, 2024

Two years ago, the sunken parts on both sides of the sunshade board began to be flannelette hollow.

One day this summer, I opened the window to change the heat in the car. It all ended up shaking like this.

The sunshade of the skylight also fell.

2.5m gray and white sponge lined plaid cloth bought at 115.45 yuan, with two bottles of glue spray

To remove the roof, you need to remove the fixed accessories around it. Let’s start with holding hands. Without a special tool, pry open the cover, insert a screwdriver into the lower opening, pry loose the lower metal buckle and pull it out. To prevent it from returning to its position.

Don’t let go, use a crowbar to insert between the handle and the cloth to prevent the buckle from returning. In the next step, the screwdriver is inserted into the upper part of the metal buckle, and the handle comes out as soon as the upper buckle is pried and unlocked.

Remove the 4 handles in this way.

Disassemble the skylight switch frame of the reading lamp.

Two screws loose, remove the control panel.

Disconnect all the plugs and remove my Bluetooth microphone module.

The co-driver pushes the make-up mirror lamp to the left to pry down one side and pulls it out.

It’s the same on the main side, in the opposite direction.

Remove the sunshade fixing foot, remove the fixing screw, pull it out as soon as you get off the screw.

This is a screw cover.

Metal buckle direct wrench

The wire harness connector is wrapped with viscose sponge to prevent abnormal noise.

Dismantle the B-pillar upper trim plate

Disposable, easy to break

There is a fixing screw in it.

Pull it out of the seal.

Remove the upper trim plate of A-pillar

Remove the upper trim plate of the C column and pull it directly.

Remove the reading lamp and pry it directly.

Remove the interior rearview mirror and automatic headlight rain sensing module

Remove the skylight trim frame and find the position of the buckle to pry it open.

The frame of the front reading lamp aged and became brittle, and it broke as soon as it was pried. After that, I bought a 70 original factory. The quality is good.

The screw foot is also broken.

The ceiling panel has come down, so we should remove the copilot seat and the back seat cushion before. So that the roof can be moved out of the right back door.

To remove the sunshade, first remove the glass cover, tilt the skylight to remove the dustproof cover 2 on both sides, unscrew the fixing screw 3 and remove the glass cover. Remove the deflector 11, remove the 4 sliding springs on the sunshade, and pull the sunscreen forward.

The dilapidated ceiling came indoors, and the ground was littered with aging sponge slag. It’s sticky and hard to wipe.

The ceiling is made of cardboard. Don’t bend during handling and disassembly, or you’ll have to buy a new one.

Like melted brown sugar, sponges stick wherever they touch. Wipe off the sponge with a stainless steel wire cleaning ball.

The sunshade is also clean.

First, practice the feel and construction process on the sunshade.

Both sides of the grid cloth and the decoration board need to be evenly sprayed with glue, and when the glue dries slightly, it can be glued without sticking hands.

Gently caress the mesh cloth head with gloves, do not press down hard and easily compact the sponge, resulting in potholes on the surface. Cut off the excess cloth around and dig out the hole when it is dry.

It is difficult to do in a large area, so it can be constructed by stages.

I am half-and-a-half, starting from the flat back, spraying glue on both sides.

After the cloth is aligned, it is smoothed from the middle to the edge, a bit like a mobile phone film, the cloth is picked up, and the hand is stroked forward below. After the plane is flat, press the shape in the depression of the handle so that there is no empty drum.

It’s basically perfect. The bulge of the front reading light is relatively high, for fear that Bradford is not enough, relax the cloth volume. The front and rear parts of the reading lamp are wrinkled. The rest can be looked at.

Luckily, I can’t see it in the front position.

Load the car and install it in reverse order as originally dismantled. First fix the fixed buckle in the back row, then C-pillar to b-column, a-pillar decoration board, you can support the whole ceiling. Take out the wire harness from the original hole.

Gradual reset

Loading is much easier than unloading. Click and it’s in place.

After reading the light changed the led light bulb.

Connect the cable and clip it in directly.

The skylight panel feels that the push and pull is heavier because the sponge is thicker than the original.

Four springs are fixed in place.

The position of the three screws fixing the glass cover is narrow and it is not easy to screw, especially the innermost one, first fix the middle screw, and then adjust the height of the front and rear heel of the glass cover. The front is flush with the roof or slightly less than 1 mm. The rear is flush with the roof or slightly higher than 1 mm. Initialize after installing the skylight. Pull down the skylight up and down switch for 10 seconds, and the skylight automatically opens and closes at once.

The front reading lamp frame of the original factory

Current situation of rear roof

The current situation of the front roof, satisfaction can be scored 90 points. At this point, the whole work of changing the ceiling cloth is completed.
Remind you to disconnect the battery before removing it, otherwise the seat will jump out of the airbag failure. Often wash hands and change gloves during construction, otherwise it is easy to pollute the new cloth. Clean up the aging sponge in time, otherwise there will be sticky macula everywhere.

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