What if it's 85 to 90 degrees outside and your black G has been sitting in the sun all day? Do you still need the blow dryer?

If it was in the garage, how long should you keep the heat on the fender, or the part of the fender you're about to try to bend?

Thanks.

 

that should work for the outside of the fender.. but the lip of the fender needs to be heated since it's on the underside where the sun's not hitting

 

Great DYI although I did this and bent both fenders out a little towards the rear. I heated them up so I wouldnt crack the paint but maybe I got them a little to hot. :/
But hey no more rubbing

 

Heres are some pics

 

Looks okay to me, man. I'm sort of encouraged by the fact that you got yours "too hot." I was thinking that there's no way that I'd be able to get the paint hot enough without holding the dryer on it for at least twenty minutes. I know I've been told only to do it as long as is needed to make it warm to the touch, but I really don't want my paint cracking. I can foresee bad things if that happened.

 

good luck, even with alot of heating it might still crack. i heated both my sides the exact same. passenger side was fine, driver side cracked some. ohh well.

what bad things do you forsee? you might have to go to the dealer and buy a small tube of touch up paint? OMG!!!!

 

I can see myself getting a crack here or there and touch it up and the touchup paint coming off and me trying to fix it over and over and then it starts to puckle and before I know it the paint is bubbled and cracked and peeling all outside the fender and I have to pay big bux to get it fixed by a shop.

 

I used a hair dryer for about 5 minutes on each side. Passenger side has a little chip but the drivers side is perfect. Hope no bad things will happen..

 

Just get it rolled right with an accual fender roller, that's JMO though!

 

Is there. Place that let's u rent a fender roller??

 

www.rollyourfender.com

 

or contact me i know a guy that rents one out of Mass.

 

Awesome. I'll try that this weekend. You've saved us some $$!!!

Thanks!
T

 

think i may give this a try tomorrow since i can't find a shop that is open on the weekend

 

Accordfreak, good DIY.

I intend to compliment the OP and help the DIY'ers with my experience.
I rolled my 2003 sedan fenders without defects (hot and slow) as follows:

If you are handy.. it is doable with home/garage tools.

Rolling the fender lip is sort of small bends with the proper tool or alternate shade tree tools methods. The fender lip is folded a little bit at a time until turned vertical to get the tire clearance that is wanted.

If you have a heat gun (not hair dryer) and a standard steel floor jack. That type of jack has a 1 3/8" dia steel handle x 39" long. The full length handle get the roll metal started. The handle is made with a joint at the half point, so it becomes (2) 18" long rollers. One is these shorter segments is needed for some finish rolling.

HEAT
1) The technique to prevent cracked paint is frequent and spread out heating on the inner fender flange and also on the the outer lip up the fender to about 3" away from the corner.

The fender and lip area temperature will be about 140 degF. (or too hot to touch for more than a second). Keep it hot.

Pinch/bend
2) The technique for folding the heated flange is to use the round steel jack handle to bend the flange upward (just a little at a time) about 1/4" long sweeps using the top of the tire as the fulcrum. The handle gets pushed down towards the center cap of the wheel to keep control of the shape of the bends as you move along the arc.

The car body needs to be jacked up sandwiching the round handle and frequently re-setting the jack height to create pressure to a tight rolling pinch fit between the fender lip and the top of the tire. The tire is braked by contact with the floor.
Roll the jack handle while bending the lip up just a small amount.

Tips:
It helps if you have have worked metal before so that you know the feel of the heated lip stiffness strength yielding to your jack handle bending it for that first bite.
This bite without cracking the paint is the key to success and not to hard to learn. Just go slow taking small bends. Keep repeating that "feel" left and right following an arc like pattern.

Start at 12 o'clock over the tire and worked the lip left then right 1/4" for each bend until you get to 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock (for some cars further out may be needed).
Then keep going back to12 o'clock to bend the lip more vertical repeating the technique until the lip is vertical.

The time it will take for 1 fender bend will be about 30 minutes once set up on the jack. Something like 15 minutes heating/ re-heating and 15 minutes sandwiching the jack handle by jack height, bending the lip / rolling the pipe shaped handle on the lip.

Remember keep the metal hot, bending a little metal at a time and repeat through the fender arc until the inner lip is vertical.

It is the same result for a DIY'er as with the proper roller tool.
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