Smooth paint helps the listings glide and fall into place. Rusted ones will grab at the listings and make it harder to fit.
Sand them and paint them.
Also once they are painted , it will keep you from getting rusty stain/mess on your hands that will ultimately end up on your headliner when installing.
I painted mine.No regrets.
You need to do everything you can to keep the job CLEAN.
Also , I hung my headliner in the bows and clipped it to stretch it out.I let it set for a week, each day I would go out and tug it a little here, a little there.
It was stored in the box for 3 years before installing it so it had some creases in it. Maybe yours isnt creased. Even if it is, you can genmlty steam out the creases , or be patient and they will eventually dissapear on their own anyhow, becasue it was stretched neatly before gluing it down.
Not saying you have to do this, but it did help it to lay down pretty well before I glued it.
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