Has anyone on here done this?
My 225's on the front sit directly inline, if not slightly past the front gaurds.
I want to lower my car but if i do ( by 50mm lowering springs ) then my gaurds will literatly be sitting on top of my tyres.
A local shop has a lip rolling tool ( not a baseball bat for those who are wondering ) that is used to roller the inner lip up inside the gaurd to provide a few extra mm of space. I want to use it to flare my whole gaurds out.
What have you guys done?
I under stand that my gaurds will need a new paint job after this but thats ok. its probably cheeper than buying the NZ$500 gaurds with the 20mm wider top lip ( its only wider at the top of the wheel arch )

 

usually you can rent a fender roller then use a heat gun to keep the fenders paint hot so it dosent crack or chip, if done right it sould not need repainted.
that body shop wants to make some money, at least thats what i think

 

thats the same as what they told me. except they dont rent it out ( the fender roller ) and want charge NZ$50 per gaurd US$35

 

A BMW buddy of mine told me you can use a Louisville slugger bat as well. Simply jack the car up, insert the bat into the wheel well, lower the car, and have someone man the bat as you slowly move the car forwards and backwards. Hell, here is a Link:

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=321090

No way in hell I would try this!

 

+

and your golden

 

^^^ HAHA! I was waiting for this. Baseball bats and fenders simply do not mix

 

what are ya talkin about ... i ran 275 on my jetta with the good ole baseball method no prob

 

thats such a ****** bogan way of doing it. no way id do that to my 7

 

+1 for the bat method

 

FENDER ROLL/FLARE/STRETCH- WRITE UP

 

man that doesnt look too good:-( maybe one where a used a heat gun wouldnt scare me soo much

 

Slammedblk7 rolled his with a baseball bat, and it looks simply amazing. That has to be the sexiest car I've seen, in large part due to the fender rolls.
Anyway, I think the price they are charging is quite reasonable. I would go ahead and let the bodyshop do it since they are experienced at it.
Also, are you running aftermarket wheels or something? I have the stock 16x7 turbo wheels and run 225's all around with no problems.

 

A fender rolling device is for schmucks who can't do good ol' fashioned metal working.

Sure, it works great, but trust me when I say that a baseball bat, a hammer and dolly, or anything for striking, are as good a method - so long as they are in the hands of a skilled person.

Heating the paint with a heat gun won't really help to stop cracking at all, in fact, it could make it worse it you got it too hot.

 

i dont think im looking to pull the lip out to the outside like that. In fact i dont even want to flare my gaurds i just want to make them wider and to do so i think im gona have to try and push the gaurd out like shown but just without rolling the inner lip out first

 

+1 . No thanks

 

I actually though he was gona then cut the inner lip off but it never came and he left it ugly as!!!!

 

maybe thats not a finished pic

 

baseball bat FTW! (sorry for the bad picture)



actually I hate the way my fenders look... but they're smooth... the baseball bat did its job well... lol.

 

if you are interested about this (i am, i will do this one day) you should look at some vw sites. the mk1 and mk2 golf gti guys love this mod. i see alot of this sorta stuff on vwvortex.com

 

$35/corner is a pretty good deal considering how much time and labor it takes.

I've rolled fenders for several cars using a golden apple fender rolling tool and it's alot of work. If you use the heat gun properly you can get by with little to no paint cracking depending on how much you are rolling/flaring it.

 

Let's see some more pics from the baseball bat guys!

 

^^^That doesn't sound quite right... You know what I mean.

 

I'm a drifter fanatic and looks matters(less) almost as much as the functionality(more)

Went on YouTube.com, typed in diy fender rolling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDTK9IjKIYU

(*he did his fender rolling kind of fast and didn't care too much about the paint, be patient and take your time)

Heat gun, Dead-blow hammer, soft/hard double headed mallet, towels, metal coping, and a trust worthy friend

~2 1/4 ft steel tubing, 2 in diameter wrapped with a towel~materials used with my stock suspension, stock rims.
(This will differ depending on the ride height and desired flare)

I did a 40 degree angle on my fc and it turned out beautifully.

Yeah it may sound like ****, but when your running off a low budget, work my *** off type of situation, renting/buying/paying someone to do your flares isn't logical unless you have either the money, or the paint job is too valuable to DIY. My 88 rx7 is my "project car" not my show car and with that in mind its actually more of a drifter than anything else. I prefer to do everything myself cause I learn more from physical work than anything being read and my mistakes, my problem.

 

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