spray paint

[Blue_SV650S]

Hi my bike is a blue 2001 bike, so after looking it up, the official paint is ‘Candy Grand Blue YC2’. There are places that do colour matched aerosols, but they seem extortionately priced (about £20 a tin :roll: ). Does anyone know of a car paint I can get from say Halfords that is a good match for the above colour? :?

[Phoenix]

My bike is also candy grand blue, the problem you have is candy paint is not just a one off mixed tin you can spray on. First you need to spray on the correct silver then over that the blue.

Even with the correct paint getting a good match on candy colours can be very hard depending on how thick or thin you lay the coats, If you wanna a good job you should really get it done by a good paint shop im afraid.

[northwind]

You won't get a good match with car colours... You might get close, but close will always annoy you. Also, if you're respraying a whole panel you'll need a tin of primer, a tin of your main colour, a tin of clear- around £20 from Halfords so far- plus, if it's a damaged panel you'll need a range of wet and drys and some filler, about another tenner, and you'll want some cutting compound to finish it properly- maybe another fiver. And the laquer will never be better than OK.

Or, you could get it sprayed professionally for, probably, under £100, it'll be done right, the finish will be tougher than you can do, and chances are it'll be better than you can do with aerosols.

Having resprayed my own bike, I'm thoroughly in the camp of "don't underestimate it". Spraying's one of those jobs that can seriously snowball.

[Blue_SV650S]

Hiya, doing your own spray job soon adds up, but I have done it many times before and have lacquer, primer etc knocking around already, I actually have a compressor too, but tend to stick with what I know (aerosols).

I’ll get a quote from the local sprayer, but to be honest, unless they get the special paint in are they likely to get a perfect match themselves? The finish is indeed more resilient mind as they ‘bake’ it on.

Anyway, anyone know what is the closest colour match in car paint??

[JakeRS]

Mines a candy grand blue too, and I want to touch up the scratches on the tank and the fairings from careless previous riders (not me, of course :wink: )

Also I have a red seat cowl which I had on my old bike, if I just spray it blue and laquer it will it come out the same sort of colour as the bike?

[northwind]

Hiya, doing your own spray job soon adds up, but I have done it many times before and have lacquer, primer etc knocking around already, I actually have a compressor too, but tend to stick with what I know (aerosols).

I’ll get a quote from the local sprayer, but to be honest, unless they get the special paint in are they likely to get a perfect match themselves? The finish is indeed more resilient mind as they ‘bake’ it on.


That's all good then... It's also the quality of the sprays, celly or singlepack laquers are less tough no matter what you do with them.

Not sure what colour you'd be best to use... There might be a good match for car colours, or if you can send a bit to a company that mixes paints they could do you a match.

Spraying candies is a ****** by all accounts, since the colour and effect is from how much of the undercoat shows through. That's why I used a solid metallic ;) They'd need to get the right paint in too of course, unless they already have it.

I'd drop Big Al a PM...