Paint prices

[Dec]

So I bought a Skidmarx belly pan for my 2014 pointy hoping that the White it came in would be unnoticeably similar to my 'glass splash white' bike - WRONG!

So I've set about getting quotes to have it painted and the best I have got is £230 - bare in mind the belly pan cost £100.

Anyone know of anywhere that offers painting at a slightly more reasonable rate, I accept that it's a pearlescent paint and a bit tricky but thought it was a bit steep.

I did try to get a belly pan direct off Suzuki but they said their supplier of body parts for the SV are no longer in business with them

[Trev B]

Look at RS BIKE PAINT,it's about £65 for base coat, top and lacquer in 400ml aerosol I think!!

[Bibio]

£230... thats taking the pizz.

go onto ebay and try http://stores.ebay.co.uk/bikecolours?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 get a small tin of the paint and top coat and then take it to any back street spray painter, they should not charge any more than £60 for their time. i suspect one of the reasons you are getting such high quotes is that they dont want the job.

[andrewsmith]

A belly pan should be about 50 quid to paint

[LiquidFlux]

It cost me 100 quid to paint the replacement nose cone I scooped to get it done in YHJ, understandably an annoying colour to paint.

[LewSpeight]

Star garage in Halifax sprayed my whole bike for cheap. Want their contact details?

[littleoldman2]

We all do:D

Edit is this them?. http://www.stargarage.co/index.html

[Wideboy]

A belly pan should be about 50 quid to paint

where are you getting that price from?

prep, prime, base coat, top coat and clear coat for 50 quid labour? :confused:

[Spank86]

£230... thats taking the pizz.

go onto ebay and try http://stores.ebay.co.uk/bikecolours?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 get a small tin of the paint and top coat and then take it to any back street spray painter, they should not charge any more than £60 for their time. i suspect one of the reasons you are getting such high quotes is that they dont want the job.

Gotta agree with them probably not wanting the job. Trouble with things like painting is most of the time is taken up with sorting everything out, you can paint a big area in not much more time than a small one so painting just a belly pan doesn't work out as cheap as you'd think.

Your best bet is like bibio says, someone small, preferably someone you know or will be getting more work off you in the future.

[andrewsmith]

where are you getting that price from?

prep, prime, base coat, top coat and clear coat for 50 quid labour? :confused:
Sorry was thinking about Labour only.

[Wideboy]

I was on about labour, that's a lot of time and work for 50 quid.

Paint isn't expensive if you buy it unmixed in tins, £100 quid would respray and SV in a metallic. It's a shocking comparison when you compare it to the price of aerosols.

[andrewsmith]

I was on about labour, that's a lot of time and work for 50 quid.

Paint isn't expensive if you buy it unmixed in tins, £100 quid would respray and SV in a metallic. It's a shocking comparison when you compare it to the price of aerosols.
Fair enough
Last things I took in were prepped. I will say it gets expensive trying to match some of the older colours unless you can get old stock

[Geodude]

where are you getting that price from?

prep, prime, base coat, top coat and clear coat for 50 quid labour? :confused:
My ex mrs would have gone bankrupt (runs her own paint shop) long ago if she charged that. She has just spent last few days fixing a 'cheap' £35 a panel paint job (repsol race rep side fairings) that were hideous, so you do get what you paid for remember that. ;)

[Dec]

Thanks for the replies,

Originally he quoted £130 which I thought was at the top end of my budget. Then he went away and priced the paint and came back saying that because it's a pearlescent finish it can take many top coats to get it right and came back with the £230 figure.

Knew I should of bought a black SV!!!!

[DJ123]

Thanks for the replies,

Originally he quoted £130 which I thought was at the top end of my budget. Then he went away and priced the paint and came back saying that because it's a pearlescent finish it can take many top coats to get it right and came back with the £230 figure.

Knew I should of bought a black SV!!!!


why not just get it done in black? Will blend in to the bike just as well, and not show as much dirt as White. Especially as it will always get covered in crap from the road and stones and what not flung at it from the front wheel.

[Mark_h]

Sheet of carbon wrap can't be all that expensive. Can probably get multiple colours too.

[Jason H]

Not overly shocked at this price given it's pearlescent, number of coats to match existing, plus there is a fair bit of labour involved between prime, base, and top coats and then finishing that everybody forgets about.

[dirtydog]

Or maybe get it hydrodipped?