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This paper is motivated by the need to predict deformation behavior of an automotive thermoplastic fender during its residence in e-coat paint bake oven where it is heated by convective currents from blowers. Part - 1 [ 1 ] of this paper, presented a FEA methodology to model the behavior of thermoplastic fender during ecoat bake. Additionally a multiphysics computational procedure to include effect of temperature and stress history was also proposed to enhance the accuracy of the solution. In this paper, we focus on the prediction of temperature history and its influence on fender deformation. Towards this, we present a two-stage thermo-mechanical simulation procedure utilizing CFD and FEA to model the ecoat bake process. While the procedure can model the heating of the fender by convective currents from blowers using CFD, the required flow field data of the ecoat oven is highly confidential.