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Manuel Kasko

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Hey guys

Going to be getting my new rims in the next few weeks and I need to get my guards rolled and a wheel balance and alignment done.

Anyone know of a cheap place that you have experienced.

Or if anyone knows how to roll the guards I am more then happy to pay you for helping do it.

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Kasko

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I work at jax fyshwick, we used to roll guards til our guard roller broke from over use. Then us like most shops stopped doing it because no matter how many times you tell people that most the time your paint will crack and or flake even when heated with a heat gun, they still want you to pay for a respray. You can buy a roller off eBay for about $100-$130 and do it yourself?

I am a full time wheel aligner and it'll cost ya $66 for a 4 wheel alignment at our shop.

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We do guard rolling, and there is always a risk of cracking the paint or flaking at the seam of the guard where it tucks under when lipping the guard.

When rolling the guards out it becomes a bigger risk as you are stretching a wide area of the paint just above the lip and thats why most shops including us mention before work comences that there is a risk that it can crack/flake the paint when rolling/lipping even with a heat gun..

The reason shops mention the risk is to cover the shop if there are any cracks in the paint due to rolling the guards and the paint not being flexable.

We charge $50/guard to roll/lip we arent able to do wheel aligning yet.

Trozzle Grand Master

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does that include cars with adjustable upper arms?

I'm with TiTAN here, are you able to do a full setup adjustment for me - ride height (lower), then fix camber and alignment? Theoretically all I need to do is lower it again to wherever it was before, then all the rest should be near on correct lol

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Titan and Troy. The more adjustments you have, the better I can do my job. $66 would cover front and rear camber and toe etc and front caster if you have adjustable tension rods. Lowering a by means of winding down Coilovers would attract an additional fee. Il enquire pricing for this tomorrow of youre interested. If you have fully adjustable everything you can give me preferred specs otherwise I set it to factory/my specs. IF you give me some wack specs you found online with stupidly large cross camber and caster differences and your car pulls like a 12yr old boy, il just say I told you so.

Manuel Kasko Grand Master

Manuel Kasko

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When rolling the guards out it becomes a bigger risk as you are stretching a wide area of the paint just above the lip and thats why most shops including us mention before work comences that there is a risk that it can crack/flake the paint when rolling/lipping even with a heat gun..

I dont need any pumping of the guards etc.

Just a standard roll of the inside is what I think the guys in the wheel section were telling me.

Going to be lowering the car and fitting some 18x9.5 +22's with 235/40/18

The coilovers should give me the camber I need

Trozzle Grand Master

Trozzle

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Titan and Troy. The more adjustments you have, the better I can do my job. $66 would cover front and rear camber and toe etc and front caster if you have adjustable tension rods. Lowering a by means of winding down Coilovers would attract an additional fee. Il enquire pricing for this tomorrow of youre interested. If you have fully adjustable everything you can give me preferred specs otherwise I set it to factory/my specs. IF you give me some wack specs you found online with stupidly large cross camber and caster differences and your car pulls like a 12yr old boy, il just say I told you so.

LOL gold.

Fair enough, I might just pull my finger out and lower it myself then bring it past if it still handles like a heap of shit :)

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RS4-S

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Lowering/raising vehicle with coilovers fitted will cost about an hours labour ($99). Make sure you adjust your Coilovers at the bottom and not the spring perch as you are just changing spring preload and reducing shock travel.

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Trozzle

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Lowering/raising vehicle with coilovers fitted will cost about an hours labour ($99). Make sure you adjust your Coilovers at the bottom and not the spring perch as you are just changing spring preload and reducing shock travel.

Hehe yeah I know :P I raised them myself for the engineer's cert. I can do them myself, I just really couldn't be f**ked hahaha

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I dont need any pumping of the guards etc.

Just a standard roll of the inside is what I think the guys in the wheel section were telling me.

Going to be lowering the car and fitting some 18x9.5 +22's with 235/40/18

The coilovers should give me the camber I need

That standard roll can still crack and cause reasonable paint damage.

Trust me :)

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