Headliner Scratching Protection Help

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    Hi I recently bought a 2016 Prius and love it! My job has me driving around with someone who has autism and they like to scratch my ceiling where he sits in the back seat behind the passenger. Currently I have a kick mat on the passenger seat which protects my seat not only from his kicking, but his scratching. On his side where he sits I also have something installed that protects pets from scratching the side door when their heads are out the windows. Then I also have seat protectors so he doesn’t scratch the seats. All this protects my car from his scratching, but the only thing uncovered is my ceiling.

    If I can put something on my ceiling that’s not permanent that I can take on and off when he’s in the car that’d he amazing. I see I can buy headliners on Amazon for cheap, which is great, but I don’t want to adhesive it to my ceiling. Is there a solution to my problem? Perhaps Velcro on my ceiling and attach a Velcro mat to my ceiling? I just don’t know how to attach it without damaging my ceiling once I want to remove it. Any tips would be very helpful. Thanks!
     
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    could you attach a sheet to the front an rear windows?
     
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    How tall is he? Would a folded-over sheet, stretched across the rear passenger headliner, secured on each side by the top of the door against the door frame be too low? I'm thinking it would have to be stretched across after he was in the car (since the rear doors could not be opened after it was in place), which might make it a challenge getting it up there securely..
     
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    By removing the headliner, you could probably attach some sort of protective fabric beneath it, up around the side edges, and to keep it from sagging in the middle, do some tack stitches with a fine needle and thread through the headliner. This would not be an easy-in, easy-out arrangement, but it would be removable when you no longer have the need, and probably not leave visible signs. Taking the headliner out to do the work is a major operation though. (Removing the addition later, you could probably leave the headliner in place and just pull the thread out.)

    There might be a way to do the same thing all from below, using a careful hand with the needle. Curved needle maybe?
     
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    Go all the way around, across the entire rear ceiling out the doors, then up and around the roof. The ends can attach to each other outside, up top.
     
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    Yeah maybe avoid velcro on the head liner. There was a report here, the material is very shred prone. Do get something on it.
     
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    I wish that would work but with how much we go in and out of the car it’d be hard to keep putting up
     
    #7 Jared Leibowitz, Nov 2, 2021
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    A 3D printer might make short work of designing a custom made solution.
    Although, it would probably be terribly expensive, unless you could do a CAD mockup yourself
    than send it out to a printing company. Even than it might be expensive to have a rear seat plastic headliner protection sheet printed up.
    I can't think of any good way to get a piece of 1/8" ply up there safely secured either without a rollbar type support under it.
    Have you tried with relaxing or any other kind of music?
     
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    Maybe some kind of stiff thin plastic, held up with braces like this at the B and C pillars:

    [​IMG]
     
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    Nice garage.
    First glance, what's the car doing in the house?
     
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