Chances of paint cracking when rolling guards?

At the moment with my 16 x 6.5 40+ offset the sit prety much inline with the guards and if i put 1 person in the back or corner hard it scrubs. or if i have me passanger and two people in teh back the guards is practicly on the tyres. half a finger gap.


Is there a good c hance of my paint crackign when rolling guards or would it be much easyer to sell of the wheels and find somthing else?

as im going to look into some coilover in a few months time. so i want to be bale to lower it without the drama of scrubage

one of myne cracked abit, when i did it at Tempe Tyres, there is a Risk. so yeh, you and your luck.

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Originally Posted by fadz

one of myne cracked abit, when i did it at Tempe Tyres, there is a Risk. so yeh, you and your luck.

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haha the way my luck has been going lately:thumbdwn: .

I'm confused......I thought you were selling your car?!?

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Originally Posted by Alpine

I'm confused......I thought you were selling your car?!?

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I wasnt 100% selling it was just putting it up to see if there were any offers. if i got hte price i wanted i would of sold it.


But now I figured I am going to finish the car ( get exhaust and look into lowering it a tad more) drive it around untill im 20 then get somthing new.



BAck to the question. so there is a good chance that it may crack. and its odd that im geting scrubage wit ha 40+ and 6.5 :(

its the risk ur gona take associated wif rolliing ur guards

theres no gurantee

if it is done properly, you have to "cut" along the bottom of the guard where it would have cracked and pait over it. This would be only at the very bottom, and cutting along the guard will prevent the cracks from spreading. then go over that part with some paint :)

the paint cracking is pretty much guarenteed, just depends on how long till it does.

^^ thats why you have to cut along the bottom; before the cracks spread

u can change the wheels to 14" steelies yo

much lighter n faster FTW!!

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Originally Posted by blubber

^^ thats why you have to cut along the bottom; before the cracks spread

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that "could" lead to the paint cracking off.. but who cares!(besides you :p) just roll your guards!

my mate got his rolled at tempe he had to sign a waver saying they are not responsible for any damage incured
then they got out the hammer and block of wood and started smashing them
they chiped the paint off but cant be seen unless looked underneath

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Originally Posted by SKREMN

my mate got his rolled at tempe he had to sign a waver saying they are not responsible for any damage incured
then they got out the hammer and block of wood and started smashing them
they chiped the paint off but cant be seen unless looked underneath

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yep you said it, i think thats ther policy lol, i wasnt told that...as i know them pretti well

my mate recently had his guards rolled and he was told bcause hes had his car resprayed a custom colour, that the paint will most probably start to crack right after which it did..

its an ugly feeling if it starts to crack the outside to..in most cases na...as it tends to crack under the gaurd where its been rolled, as it happend with my own one...
i guess thats the bad sides of things when you want to lower the car.

if you know someone who does it well it shouldnt crack.
I know a guy who works for Drift garage who does a very good job, good price and his a mobile mechanic too. Pm me if you want his details

a friend of mine uses a heat gun when doing it to prevent the paint from chipping. no problems so far on any cars that hes done! haha

Also it got mentioned i could try a 195 tyre instead of the 205 think that would change anything?


I spoke to a place today he said he has rolled about 10 commodores and about 5 of htem cracked

but he has rolled about 5 honda's and 6 subarus and none of htem cracked.

u could always try lower profile
if that works
i scrubbed with 195/55/15
so i changed to 195/50/15 and no more scrub

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Originally Posted by [[d a n n y]]

u could always try lower profile
if that works
i scrubbed with 195/55/15
so i changed to 195/50/15 and no more scrub

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yeah i am kinda lookign into that.

I curruently run a 205/45 and guy a bob jane said maybe i could go a 195/45 and get a bit of -camber on the rear and it might stop it.


but i want to go lower so i want to be 100% it will work


this is a rough mesaure but

the lip on my guard is about 12-15mm wide the wear on the outside of my tyre is about 10mm wide and the wear on the lip on the guard is about 5mm wide.


hmmm and a 195 205 is what 10mm smaller?

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Originally Posted by nugget666

yeah i am kinda lookign into that.

I curruently run a 205/45 and guy a bob jane said maybe i could go a 195/45 and get a bit of -camber on the rear and it might stop it.


but i want to go lower so i want to be 100% it will work


this is a rough mesaure but

the lip on my guard is about 12-15mm wide the wear on the outside of my tyre is about 10mm wide and the wear on the lip on the guard is about 5mm wide.


hmmm and a 195 205 is what 10mm smaller?

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I am not surprise hearing from bob jane, i bought their rim few months ago telling them i gonna lower my car later on, so i got 17s and they gave me freaken 215/40 tyre, as i didnt know about honda then cos i just bought my civic 2000, after reading many thread i will never able to lower it now if people get scrub with 205 tyre what chances i will get on 215/40 tyre, so now i still deciding whether to lower or not.

I've heard of jobs, if done properly, by heating the guard, will result in no cracking.

195/50/15 should not scrub however it really depends on the offset of your wheels too. Also it may only scrub the splash guard, not the guard itself.

I'm decked on about 3.5" with 195/50/15, no scrubbing. I had 17s with 215, they scrubbed, changed to 205, scrubbing is reduced.

Splash guard was scrubbed the most but also the actual guard, I had +35 offset wheels which seated the wheel quite out.. hahahaha.

Doing it properly means gheating the panel so that the paint stretches and won't crack :)