Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

If he's going to paint your whole bike for free (probably not) I would let him do it. :razz:

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

White :D

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

Grand candy blue is a pain to properly colour match, Firstly he needs to lay a silver base on which to spray the blue, then lacquer, but he need to also tint the colour to match the ageing of your bike. As you can guess it is an approximation as you never know the end colour until the lacquer has been applied, dried/polish.

Normally on a car, you end up painting adjacent panels when painting just to get by the problem of approximating a match. I guess he knows he cannot get it perfect, hence his suggestion of a total respray.

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

It would not be free but very cheap as I would strip the bike and prepare the panels myself. What would you do people? To respray or not?

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

If it was me and he was doing it cheap, I would go the total respray root. Having owned the Napoleon Blue (also difficult to match), he will struggle to ever get any of these pearlescent paiint jobs perfect. Now is the time to think about what colour you would love etc.

PS - what Bike you got out of interest? If a K4 onwards, if it was me I would go for black all over, would then service the forks, strip them and get them powdercoated black. Then go for clear indicator lenses.......

Blanck on Black on pointy's with Black swingarms are lurrrrrrvely. IMHO.

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

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Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

That is totally the wrong colour, no way is it grand candy blue. is it the jade blue?

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

Nope that looks like the K6 plus Grand Napoleon Candy Blue as I think it is called. Almost a pefect match to my old bike. From that phot at least.

Based on the fact you have a curvy, I think you have the best colour already, but gettinig it to match is clearly not going to happen.

Re: Got my lowers painted not happy
 

+1

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Yeah I think you are right Tim. Perhaps he got the wrong paint code for the curvy blue and mixed up to the wrong spec. There were two blues for curvy.

Drew might be right, but it is even more of a cockup if he mixed up a blue for the wrong model bike!