I have done quite a bit of sheetrock installation, but don't see the similarity. Joint compound can hide many installer errors that can't be hidden on a cardboard headliner. I suppose everyone has their own threshold for waste, but ruining 2 headliners before having a successful installation would not be acceptable to me.
My point is the discussion is that Jim Carter Trucks did not provide adequate instructions for a product they claimed was die cut and would fit my application. Google "Implied Warrantee as in Warantee of Merchantability or Implied Warantee of Fitness for a Particular Purpose". The companies knowledge of the fact that most buyers ruin one or two cardboard headliners before being successful is not very ethical. A detailed instruction sheet "could" have remedied the situation. Personally, I don't think anyone at their company actually knows how to install the headliner.
Unfortunately in our consumer society, we have been conditioned to accept products that do not perform as expected. There is currently a very parallel discussion of new parts that don't fit. Coincidence? I don't know about you all, but I got interested in old iron so that I could avoid the low quality Chinese junk out there today. Unfortunately US vendors are following the off shore business model of "low price" race to the bottom in quality.
