Saturday, November 11, 2017

Rolling the fenders

What do you do after you mess up the wheelwell of your car? After the major repairs, I was in no position to give money to a body shop to fix this. I ordered a cheapo fender roller on Amazon and I set about rolling the wheel well lip. Only one side was damaged but I rolled both side so this would not happen again. I start off carefully, trying to preserve the paint but it was really hard to prevent the paint from cracking, even with heat from a heat gun. I had to repaint part of the fenders anyway so I just made it happen. It was painful to see so much flaked off paint but I got over it. The results were pretty good and I go the lip completely rolled under for maximum tire clearance. Next up is primer and paint to fix the mess I created.