Hey everyone!

So, I need some advice, or someone to talk me out of my idea. Everywhere I go with my 2016 F150 I get a souvenir patch. I had thought of getting a large backpack to put them on, until I saw a 4Runner with patches on the headliner. I thought that was an ideal way to display where I'd gone adventuring. My question is, how would I go about installing these patches? They are iron on, and I don't think that heat would be a good idea for the headliner, so then I was thinking super glue, or something of that sort.

I plan on keeping my truck for a loooooooong time, so resale value isn't really a concern of mine; however I really don't want to screw up the headliner. Any advice on how to go about this, or why I shouldn't would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

 

I think headliner would be kind of rough to get right. Maybe make up something that instead of impacting the truck itself, could act as a holder for all the patches but still live in the truck.

For example, with a Crew or SuperCab, you should be able to fold up the rear seats. Could make something with a hard backing and then fabric over it that you can safely iron the pieces to, then mount it under the rear seats and when they are up the patches are visible. Can also do something similar in the bed, mount a piece of particle board or something up against the front of the bed, the vertical part that sits against the cab, then put some fabric over that and then iron pieces on there. You still have the full bed usable, but when the bed is open (tonneau cover is up if you have one, etc), it's a rolling display for all the patches.

I know you are keeping the truck for a long time, just trying to think of ways you could instead mount patches to a board/fabric combo you fashion and still show off in the truck without taking away some of the usability of the truck.

 

I really like the idea of using the bottom of the back seats. Thanks for the idea!

 

Where I go is going to way outlive multiple vehicles. I buy mugs for the wife, and metal badges for my walking stick, which I will someday need to continue enjoying the great outdoors.

 

Agreed. The way I change vehicles so often, the headliner wouldn't be my first choice.

 

Iron or affix velcro to the back of your patches. Then attach the other side to the headliner, or stick it directly to the underside of the back seat.

 

I used to collect patches with my Tacoma. Velco patches stuck perfectly to the headliner because of the texture. To do the same on a headliner of an F150 would definitely involve some sort of additional material being added to it because velcro patches don't stick to it. If your patches are all iron on, I would certainly go the route of adding some sort of material between the headliner and patches because it would be sure to leave some nasty marks behind if they ever came off or you decide to remove them.