Thread: Extending fender to get rid of gap?

If you are willing to cut and weld the body and have those skills, maybe not that hard. But it would look goofy.

Or build some custom sterring knuckles that raise the center of the wheel bearing up, thus lowering the car. But good luck with that one lol.

Lowering the car 1.5in overall does not really affect ride quality at all. I dropped mine of SSC springs and it rode like factory with just a little more bounce or "pogo" to it.

make some fender skirts lol

Just such a wide-open question: "How hard...".

To me, the max tire size is just too small. Visually. Strut design interferes with changing that. I think anything modified would look worse but I'm not sure. The length of the wheel opening has to stay same, but it's height could take a major drop. Hmm. If you're wanting something molded on, I pass. If you want to cut up some fenders and see what can happen, I'm in for coaching if needed. Tempted to photo-edit the idea.

Anything I can think of is gonna put you in the thousands, to have done at a shop.

Originally Posted by suitercrew

Well could you just take a piece of plastic or sheet metal and screw it on to the existing fender and bondoe and paint it?

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Doing the same thing the right way would not be a great deal more costly because either way you need bondo and paint. Modifying fenders isn't that bad for a body shop or a good guy with a welder. Anything with a seam of two unlike materials will crack.

Originally Posted by suitercrew

Well could you just take a piece of plastic or sheet metal and screw it on to the existing fender and bondoe and paint it?

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Worst idea ever!!!

I hope you like big repair bills

If you hate the gap lower it, if not deal with it. Unless your going to pay a shop quite a bit to do bodywork for you, it's not worth it.


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If you want rust and for the bondo to crack when the body flexs, sure go right ahead.

I think you under estimate the stock ride height, what you think is close to bottoming out is really not that close. Or blame your really old factory saggy non dampening suspension that it has.

I could clear speed bumps, parking lots entrance and exits with dips and not scrape. Or even those county roads with those "dip" signs, I could clear them just fine at speed.

Yup and a minor drop of a 1-1.5 isn't going to cause you to bottom out unless your using old worn out struts


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