roll fenders

[nelson]

i need to roll my fenders ASAP, it shouldnt be a hard project but i need to barrow the tools from someone, and id love to have help of someone whose done it before. lmk if you wanna help

[Jeff]

if you don't want to pain the car after you do it ...don't do this. It can be done without messing up the paint, but it is very hard and you seem picky with your car. I've done it on an e30 BMW, Pete D. has the tool, I think he rents it for like $50. Its beat up though, makes it harder to do it without boning the paint.

[nelson]

you dont think that i can avoid it even doing it slowly with high heat?

[PDenbigh]

Pete D. has the tool, I think he rents it for like $50. Its beat up though, makes it harder to do it without boning the paint.

It is?

you dont think that i can avoid it even doing it slowly with high heat?

How much are you wanting to roll them? If you want to tuck the lip under and that's it, you have an 80% success rate with even heat and patience. It also depends on how old the vehicle is. An 80's E30 is going to have much less tolerant paint than a 2006 Mustang.

[Dave]

a heat gun and pete's tool is all you need. I didn't really care about the paint, but we rolled the fenders on my 240sx a lot, without heating it, and it still didn't crack up like we expected.
That tool rocks my world; Jeff was having trouble b/c he was probably using it on a TD, which means it had bigger problems at hand... :-)

[Jeff]

Nope. No TDs involved in this. I did it on a 90 325is. The paint did not matter...but I still did pretty well considering, only a crack or two. We used lots of heat, Pete's tool, and a hammer and dolly in a few places. It turned out nice, but you MUST take your time. Like Pete says, rolling just the lip in is easy no problem at all. If you are doing more (Nick and I were rolling his out like 1.5-2 inches if I remember correctly) it is much harder to get uniform results that won't make you go, "damn, wish I would have left that be."

What I meant about the tool being beat up, we kept having it fall apart. I looked up the instructions so I'm 99% sure I was doing it as it was intended and not stressing the tool excessively. It had a bolt that kept coming out, I don't remember which one, the threads were messed up. And the roller had a large cut it in, which would not matter, unless you were worried about the edge of it against the paint on the wheel well. This is all from my memory and from a year ago. Maybe its all fixed and better now? Maybe my memory fails me?

[nelson]

yeah i just wanna roll it up so that it doesnt rub when i have people/kegs in the car or when i go over those damn speed bumps in the parking garage by showker..

so then i guess it shouldnt be too hard to keep it from cracking?

anyone wanna volunteer to help me out with this sometime soon?

[nelson]

a case of beer to whoever helps me do this, im tired of hearing the f**king squeak in the morning when i have people in the car and hit a speed bump @ 5 mph.

[D_Eclipse9916]

if its a beautiful day ill help ya, let me know. If its a REALLY beautiful day I gto some shit on my car to take care of first, ive been working on too many other people's cars and not getting shit done on mine. I WANT MORE BOOST! lol

Maybe we can find a day between now and thanksgiving to throw down for a wrench day? someone check the weather to see if it will ever be warm enough.

[nelson]

psh if its above 60 thats warm enough for me
i just wanna get this doooneee