rolling fender lips

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question for those with rolled fender lips - how far are yours rolled ... do they have to folded very tight ... or just tucked up on an angle? trying not to destroy the paint.

yes, i am going slow and heating the paint.
 
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thanks Barry - hard to tell if the tops are rolled tight or just folded up ... or somewhere in between. the sides where the folding ties into the vertical leg looks similar to what i did to the first one. you may have gone further front + back than i did ... mine was mostly starting / stopping at 10 + 2
 
10 & 2 is really good enough. You can only go to the point where you feel pressure, I'm pretty low in these pic and only rubbed once on a very sprinted drive. 205/45/16 on 8" wide rims.


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This is a slippery slope. Restored, original, etc., all the cars have their own tale to tell as far as what is applied, stuck, or whatever inside the fender wells and lips in particular. You might be creating a dirt/ moisture trap that the Karmann boys could only dream about. A mild roll brings no worries but once you start folding you have to be careful.
 
i caught a fender lip - twice on the same tire + fender. i can easily replace the tire. i was not going fast when i caught it (either time), one was on a speedbump, the other was turning into my driveway going over the curb. i don't want to grab the fender lip during some spirited driving.

with the roller i was able to smooth out the fender lip ... and tuck it up some. i would like to avoid the complete fold, that was the point of my question. i also don't want to run the risk of deforming the outer part of the fender.
 
Only damage I've ever seen was maybe 30 degrees either side of straight up.
 
Obviously, the best time to do this would be before a re-paint...but lets say you have a 12-15 year-old Polaris with clearcoat....isn't the paint going to really unhappy; i.e., want to crack/fracture, with or without heat? I don't really think of paint as being that flexible...
 
for me, being that i already caught a fender lip, the car is going in for spot paint attention ... and yes i am using a paint artist. i saw a new porsche GT3 that he fixed for PCNA that got a significant rock chip on the roof + front fender during a test drive ... he told me the side of the car to look at and i couldn't find it ... and this was a silver metallic car with clearcoat.

and because the fender lip had already lost paint, it cracked some more with the rolling ... even with heating. i still have to roll the other side, and we will see how that goes ... but i expect that it will crack.
 
Last year VSR rolled my front fenders, added adjustable negative camber plates and repainted my car from the nose to mid doors.
 
After I rolled the fenders on my car I used body seam filler in the cavity and smoothed it off to lessen the chances of crap getting in there and causing problems down the track. Further prevention provided with body under seal plastic paint before painting.

John
 
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