any expierences?

comments?

diy?

gonna be doing it soon and i want feeback

discuss.

 

yea dont go crazy with it

me + friend + fender roller = $300 fix my friend and i went too far, flared it out too much and now its wavy paint is good, but its gonna take some TLC to get back to normal.

 

Some guy came to us for an estimate to have his flaired out and we charged him to do it the right way including refinishing. He said thats insane because he can go home jack the car up, put a bat between the tire and the fende,r and lower it down and thats it. I said ok then.

Dont do it yourself, have it done by professional body mechanics that know what their doing.

 

i used a professional machine, and a heat gun, i did it the right way, i just went too far

 

You can try hammering it back. If you hammer it right you wont scratch the paint or anything.

Dont use a pointy hammer haha.

 

what kind of hammer should i use that wont eff up the paint?

and obviously i should use a heat gun again to soften the paint too right?

 

a rubber hammer duh..

 

If your hammering it I wouldnt soften up the paint. I can go both ways, softening the paint makes it easier to shift the paint and peal it, keeping it hard makes it easy to peal. I never heated it though, Id get a rubber mallet (maybe 2 inch in width) and a metal mallet to put behind the fender so when you knock on the outside, the inside hammer acts as a block for the parts you dont want to push back. Be careful though!

 

what if i used a rubber hammer on the outside and a dolly on the inside?

 

i used a bat and some elbow grease.... works well...

 

Crowbar.

 

Does anybody have pictures of your rolled fenders?

Davedave - A rubber hammer on the outside will always work as long as you have a flat heavy dence piece of something on the inside to move spot to spot where you don't want to push in. Like if you wanna pound in 13 inches up the circle but you know if you pound on the 13th inch, 11 and 12 will also move but you dont want it to. You would place the hard peice of something behind 11 and 12, apply pressure, and resist the force when you hit it on spot 13. I hope I'm not talking confusing lol.

 

you wouldnt be able to tell the difference... mine was so minor i just needed to bend it out a mm or 2

 

So whats the point? lol

 

i bought a dremel and did it quick!
and i did a very very good job!
i cut half the fender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyqAYcISe4U
( oh yeah and i forgot about the safety glasses)

 

http://www.tirerack.com/accessories/tools/fenderlip.jsp

 

thats what we used.


and no your lingo didnt confuse me. i used to take autobody at school before i switched into automotive. ill give it a shot on my own first im no body work tech but i know how to bang

 

 

Dave, you're a trip.

 

to make it so my wheels wouldn't rub... isnt that why people typically roll fenders?