348 Front fender rolling

Are your shocks ok? If they are original and untouched the damper along with the spring might not be functioning as well as it could. Same with the lower bushing in the shock mount.

I have driven some very bad F355’s with massive dive and squat under hard braking and acceleration which was resolved with damper rebuild and new lower bushes.

 

Welcome to the club. 348, 10 mm spacers, stock wheels & tyres.

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My pg3s on my 355 will touch the fender if i turn sharp on to a ramp such as a driveway. Schnazzy's also has a post on here where he indicated his wheels can contact the fenders to.
Running lots of negative camber helps. Price we pay for a good stance i guess lol

 

When I got my car the previous owner caught the fender real good on the passenger side and a little on the driver side. I did the same thing. Made my own lug bolts to get the roller to mount up. Using a heat gun can save your paint from popping off if you take your time. My paint unfortunately was already popping so will need to fix that, but a roller can work wonders if done right, and while your in there might as well push the lip up a little more to avoid future issues.

 

So far I have not had any issues. I dont take driveway approaches or large surface changes when the wheels will be turned at much of any speed though either. As far as your paint crack I would just keep an eye on it. You could pull at it and get off what is loose and wants to come off anyway and then spot treating with paint match, but just a crack on the fender edge isn't anything crazy. I did a temporary paint touch up on the area and its hardly noticeable. For me its good enough until I get to the point of addressing all the paint issues on the car.

 

I got the "unfold" (only after installing the 10 mm spacers) when I went very slowly over a normal speed bump in my condo but I had the wheels turned to one side quite a bit at the time. I rolled it to the original angle and thought that, if I am careful to keep the wheels fairly straight when going over humps, it should be fine. However, it happened again (don't know exactly where) so I rolled it one more time and out the front spacers went. I read that, if you want better high speed stability, use 25 mm spacers on the rear wheels and no spacers at the front. If you also have 10 mm spacers at the front, you don't get as good high speed stability improvement but you get better looks. When I removed the front spacers, I thought the car looked just as good.

 

I caught the fender on my F355 with a mechanically stock set-up and Pilot SuperSports (I forget the tire width but same as / close to stock). Although the stance on these cars doesn't look like it, the tolerances of tire to fender clearance are very tight -- so once you put on spacers you're going to get issues.

 

Yes, the spacers do not affect the wheel alignment.