I'm asking in the type-r forum because I figure you guys try to squeeze some crazy widths/offests under your fenders.

I'm abou to repaint my car & was going to roll the fenders prior to the re-paint, and then thought, why couldn't I just grind the lip down to ~1/4" or so since it's getting repainted anyways.

Has anybody done this before, or is there a downside to this I don't know about?

Thanks.

 

i personally used a baseball bat. if that didn't work i used a heat gun and a hammer on the back side w/ my hand on the outside on my EG. and again ghetto. there are fender rolling tools such as


but i dont have $300.00 to spend. so i did all mine in about 30 minutes w/ the "ghetto" method.

 

Thanks for the reply, but I'm asking whether or not it's a good idea to grind the inner edge of the fender down for clearance rather than roll it. My car is going to be repainted, so I thought maybe this would provide more clearance than rolling.

Has anyone done this? Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea?

Thanks

 

If you plan on running really wide rims and tires and the edge is not perfectly smooth you might cut the sidewall of your tire on the metal.

 

right...

i'd say roll the fenders. if you are afraid you still wont have the clearance, roll them to the point where the fenders flare out tons...

if still not enough, get a extension for your wheel well (wide body) and cut off the extra metal (not the little tab, but cut up your wheel well.

 

The fender flare will pull the wheel well out a bit but not much, I bought one and did on the the rear, it mostly just bend the lip of the well. I will cut the fender/well and repair to widen soon. I have not tried the roller on the front, fenders are very flimsy, I am working to have made or make a set of wide fenders.

I shold mention I run 225/50/15s so rubbing is an issue if I lower the car too much, right now it needs to be pretty high. You can't see it since the tires fill in well, but if you look at the rear or front bumper it is not very close to the ground. It works very well but I would like to go a little lower with wider fenders and 225/45/15s

 

By the way the roller is $250 at eastwood.

 

Please let us know what you end up doing as far as a solution.....

I'd like to run 245/50/15's..... at a very low ride height

 

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and this is the reason i suggested rolling as apposed to cutting. plus you'd have to paint the exposed metal ot prevent rust

 

I am getting my car re-painted very soon, that is why I am asking. Otherwise I wouldn't even consider grinding them.

I guess my question is, what's the best way to prepare my front and rear fenders prior to having them painted so I can run maximum width/offset wheels/tires in the future. Basically, I don't want to find out down the road I want to run a wheel/tire combination and have to grind on newly painted fenders or risk cracking paint with rolling.

Should I just roll them & call it a day? Roll and grind? Also, rolling makes me nervous because I don't want to crease my fenders up. I thought because I'm getting a repaint soon, grinding would be the safest way to gain clearance.

The only other issue (other than the risk of edges catching tires) I thought of is this: Does the inner edge provide stiffness to the fender area? If I grind it away, could the fender crease or possibly crack around the fender radius? No one else out there has tried grinding the inner edge off?

 

roll them

i know someone who cut them and went a little to far the the metal in the rear actually seperated the 1/4 panel from the wheel well.if you look close theres spot welds on them.

 

That's the sort of thing I was wondering about, thanks for the warning!

 

i think i have the answer

and its just to roll them.......

rolling ur fenders is the best way to run wide wheels.

u go from rolling ur fenders which is tucking the inner lip in, to, flaring out ur fenders by rolling which is clearly bending the whole exterior of the wheel well to have a flared lip facing towards the exterior , to, cutting up the wheel well and flaring it even more for a custom wide body

i hope u undeerstand what im typing cos im half aslp and very tired so im blurting whats on my mind.

anyways

whats best is to tell us what size tires and offset u are plannign to run..
i myself have the J's fender flares for the front and will flare out my rears to run wide rims. i plan to roll em combined with a bit of bodywork since my paint will crack..

if u rent planning to go widebody or aftermarket fender flares, on a type R, just the basic baseball bat method or very minor fender rolling tucking the inner lip in is enough for u.

hope my messy post helps~