Guard rolling ..

[guile]

google newspaper pull, doesn't come out perfect but you will be surprised what you can do.

[Water Boy]

Hahhaha love it!

[moostin]

Love those rims!

[anthony--t]

Have seen people using phone books and cook books. Wasn't sure about it. Does it roll the lip or is it more for pulling the arches? Definitely an option if it works!

[Mk3 AAA]

Did one car with a mallet, not great, one paid $120 odd for a bloke to come and do the rears, did a decent job. Have seen Ki11z with a mallet do a really mint job but must have a steady hand I'd say itd be easy to mess.

[dylan8]

I know this thread is old but I'm looking at doing this. I know you can buy guard rollers on eBay but am keen to know results from a mallet or the price they paid to get it done. Pretty much just trying to figure out the best way to do it. Thanks

think the roller I used came from ebay. (wasnt mine)
was happy considering the arches were already raped and it was a cold day when we did it.

[anthony--t]

Saw the rollers on eBay can get one for under $100 so that's probably the way I'll go unless I can find someone who can do it cheap. After looking up other peoples attempts with mallets and baseball bats I'm not taking the risk of needing new guards.

[russ83]

Good thread

[Ben J]

I've recently done all the gaurds on my new white mk3 with a proper fender roller I borrowed from alex. It may be because my struts are just too short (compared to the stock suspenion and even coilovers they're very small) and I had to use the thing on the smallest setting and couldn't angle the roller part as I would have like too, but I think I did a better job on my old mk3's front fenders with just a hammer then I could with the roller. Where the holes for the fender liners are in the lips on the front it left dents and I cant figure out a way to stop that.

Backs turned out perfect though. First you have to get rid of all the sealer stuff that is in the corner or the lip thing (and there is a LOT of it) or else it will barely roll at all. I took it back to bare metal and then gave it a quick coat of unerbody coating paint stuff to stop it from rusting. Found the best way to get rid of it all was to heat it up until it was really hot with a heat gun (smoke will poor out, probably best to wear a mask or something, I doubt it did my body any good) to soften it up, and then hit it with a die grinder, followed by a wire wheel and then scraped whatever was left out with a knife. Takes a bit of effort (and I sliced my thumb through the nail and all) but is worth doing to get them as flat as possible. After I did them with the gaurd roller I pulled them a little further with the phone book method (which is really, really easy when you have bags dont need to worry about jacks and stuff, just hit those switches ) and I think they're pretty damn good if I may say so myself.

[Hakan]

I tried doing the phone book way i was to scared to drop the car so i ended up buying a proper roller haha any tips when rolling guards so i dont bend the fenders doesnt really matter if i crack the paint since im getting a respray !