Hi Hugh,

There was not a single particular manual. I figured out what was going on through lots of web research, and for disassembly, I just figured it out as I went. You can pretty much look at the headliner, and know that everything that comes through it has to be removed.

The color was close. Not perfect, but close. I chose not to re-cover the underside of the sunroof shade. If you look, you can tell that they are different, but in truth, nobody ever actually looks unless I point it out to them.

Interesting note: according to Volvo, all 850's have a beige headliner. Thus, when I was getting my new plastic sunroof surround, it only came in beige. (They assured me it was correct, "because they all have beige". It was correct for my car!

I would say it took me several weeks of figuring out what to do, and ordering the new material and adhesive. (I'm cheap and went for the slow truck of ground shipping.) Once I sat down to do it, it took maybe an hour to get it out, (slow because I was figuring out along the way how to do it,) another half hour to really scrub to clean up the fiber board, (I was kind of fussy about getting every last particle that I could out of there,) then about another half hour to spray glue and put on the new fabric. Then I let it dry overnight, and it took maybe another half hour to trim to my satisfaction, then less than a half hour to put it all back. (Easier going in, since I now knew what I was doing.) As with all car jobs, it would go faster if I had to do it again.

If you don't like that one WLS Headliners, there are several places that will sell you the material, including local fabric stores.

Roger