Does anyone know if rolling the fender is necessary when installing TechArt Formula 20" wheels?

Also, anyone knows a good place in LA to do it?

 

It would depend on the car (986, 987?) and the wheel offsets. I believe I read somewhere that GMG does it. I have heard of people doing it themselves by rolling a baseball bat inside the fenders but I'm not that brave.

 

top of the fender lips on cayman are rolled from the factory (don't know about the boster). i guess you could "stretch", or "pull" the fender but that is more involved and likely to distort the fender.

 

When looking for a place to do it, make sure you ask them HOW they will do it. The only place I could find in NorCal that would do it right (using the Eastwood tool adapted for a Porsche) was SharkWerks and they wanted a pretty hefty price. I thought that if the local guys were just going to use a baseball bat, I could probably do it better myself (I'd already done a couple Honduhs in the past). It's a bit more scary doing it to a Porsche though. No problems, the operation on my 986 went pretty smooth with no paint or dent problems. I did use a heat gun to warm up the paint first. There are quite a few how-to's on the Net.

Kirk

 

I think Tire Rack sells a tool to roll the lip on fenders, has anyone used that tool with good results ?

 

That's the Eastwood tool with just a Tire Rack sticker on it. It won't exactly fit the Boxster without an additional adapter plate. But you can also modify the standard tool to make it fit, which is what SharkWerks did.

The tool does work. One of the tuner magazines just rolled the fenders on an S2000 this month with it. I think it was maybe Modified Magazine that did it. But the tool only worked to an extent and then they had to use a baseball bat...