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Mr Mini Fender Roller (a DIY!) « » 5:42 PM 2-7-2006

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Looking through the may 2003 issue of "The Golf", and came accross this article on making your own fender roller using a widowmaker and some spare plate steel.

My gift to you. Enjoy

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one of the guys in our club posted up the pics to this. Very brite idea to the person who came up with it.
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nice, thanks, what timing... i was looking for my magazine for the longest time... it was driving me nuts
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****, i went looking for one of my stock jacks... i used to have like half a dozen and now i have none!

i need to roll my fenders, like yesterday.

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CaptainMo16v Re: (Muffler Bearing) » « » 7:48 PM 2-12-2006

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Those factory VW jacks just never run out of uses do they??
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Those factory VW jacks just never run out of uses do they??

with the addition of the fender roller, they have 4 uses. only one is actually useful.

1: dropping your car while your jacking it up to change a flat

2: dropping your car and putting a huge dent in the rocker panel while you jack it up to change a flat.

3: dropping your car and putting a huge dent in the rocker panel and then getting stuck under the car while you jack it up to change a flat

4: diy fender roller

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BlackFoxer Re: (Muffler Bearing) » « » 8:42 PM 2-12-2006

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haha #3 happen to a friend of mine. Hopefully it wasn't him but his hand between the tire and the fender. Ouch. Hopefully for him again, I was pretty fast at jacking up the car so he can remove his
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i meant that the jack gets stuck under the car in an odd position... i have yet to drop a car on myself and i hope i never do :knock on wood:

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dubstarmk2 » « » 2:58 AM 2-15-2006

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i built one and it works well quite well indeed

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They also work great for removing 1.8T trannys. cus you have to move the engine forward. either that or buy a rediculusly priced VW tool.

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fastmaxxcooper Re: (CaptainMo16v) » « » 4:12 PM 3-6-2006

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ooo i like welding and i like rolled fenders

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i found one of my stock jacks! yes!

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fastmaxxcooper Re: (Muffler Bearing) » « » 10:50 PM 3-6-2006

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well one use for them is we pre jack the car up to fit a safe jack under the car. works every time. well cept it bent over my pinch weld

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Re: (fastmaxxcooper) » « » 11:44 AM 3-7-2006
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So, anyone build and use this contraption yet? I'm still waiting for my steel to come off the laser. Yes, that's right, it's a gov't job.

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good thing to post up!!

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toplessvw Re: (Funkatollah Insaney) » « » 4:58 PM 3-8-2006

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Quote, originally posted by Funkatollah Insaney »

So, anyone build and use this contraption yet? I'm still waiting for my steel to come off the laser. Yes, that's right, it's a gov't job.

im in for buying a set thats all cut.. just ship and ill weld.. you could have a good little extra money maker on your hands..let me know!!

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dubstarmk2 » « » 1:55 AM 3-10-2006

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here is the one i made, from the directions just simplified and slightly tweeked for ease of cutting and building. works really well

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Muffler Bearing Re: (toplessvw) » « » 12:57 PM 3-10-2006

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You should cut a batch of those on the laser I would definatly buy if the price was right

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kutza Re: Fender Roller (Mr Mini) » « » 7:24 PM 3-10-2006

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I read this post about 2hrs ago. I got inspired, and put together the following. Sorry, only had cell phone camera to take pics. I still need to get it on the car and make the roller and adjustment
knobs.
Excellent original plans, I made mine so it pivots at the wheel.
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Modified by kutza at 7:26 PM 3-10-2006

ditchdigger Re: Fender Roller (kutza) » « » 11:25 PM 3-16-2006

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here is mine.

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works dang nice too.

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IntrstlarOvrdrve Re: Fender Roller (Mr Mini) » « » 12:22 PM 3-19-2006

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I am seriously building this

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