Renault 5 GT Turbo Restoration Project | Episode 5 | Removing Heater Matrix & Headliner Fail! 

Used to love these pocket rockets back in the day

Good afternoon everyone nice to see your family helping like your daughter and on hand your granddad and wife and brothers that one is a mechanic I only watched recently your videos of your family getting this Renault 5 demandied ready for welding and a respray and other things I hope you are all pleased keep the good work up on your videos On your you tube channel

Great to see an R5gt turbo being saved, these were scarce way back & now are like golddust !

100% upgrade, modernise, improve and make your own...all day long ... your car your choice ... you ain't selling it so you don't have to please the masses . Alcantara is defo the way forward where possible and even consider a starlight roof lining

One of my friends got his old Mercedes sun cracked dashboard renovated and covered in the same looking vinyl as the original. It looks like a completely new original dashboard. The company is located in Germany. If you are interested I can try figure out the name of the company

Even if you are doing this for your own fun and not a proper historic resto, I would keep as many parts original as possible. Not only adds value to the car, it also makes it much easier to blend with any other 2nd hand or recovered ones you might come across in the future. Good thing about these 80s-90s cars, you can easily just make/use any part in black or grey and it will match quite nicely with the rest, ready to be replaced or upgraded in the future. You already have f.e. the original seat covers ----> Then use them! You can just trim the rear seat flat black and it will look great, same with the doorcards you already have. If you go Alcantara, any original part will look out of place. Plus, it will be more expensive than using flat black cloth and DIY. Oh and you can also get inexpensive parts from the cheaper R5 versions and just paint them with rattle cans or retrim them yourself. EDIT: Also, be honest with yourself: You know that as your car starts looking better, you will want it to look more and more "factory", specially since it's staying with you long term and there is no hurry.

Trimming the existing plastics sounds like a good plan with Alcantara.. I wouldn't worry about using it on the roof lining.. as it looked in good condition.. use a good quality high temp spray glue so it doesn't come unstuck in high temps... I used TRIMFIX HIGH TEMP SPRAY ADHESIVE 500 ML. 😎👍

I'd cover them in alcantara and cover the roof lining to match. Loving watching the progress helps keep me motivated doing my own.

I thought fur fabric. I’m sure your dad used it on his van 😂

Only comment i would make is please remove that music, I can hardly hear a word you were saying due to all the background music. Its not needed.

I think recycle as much as you can by covering it…. Then if you find second hand parts that are better you can easily make them match….. I’ve got headliner spray, remind me in 2 years when you ready to put it back in 😂😂 joke :-)

Sell the interior, make a rally car