Home spray job removal

ok guys any help appriciated...i am contemplating buying a chepo bike cheapo as it has had a "Home" spray job on the tank n farring,,Baaad job to...they have sprayed straight over the original farring colour and tank, straight over the decals to ..looks terrible...any ideas the best way to remove this mess to start again or is there a way to remove down to the orriginal paint without to much damage to it...the bike itself would be well worth doing runs lovely and has a full mot on

sounds like a good chance to take it all the way bk and do your own paint job on it. as for getting it back to original paint i dont think you'll be able to. i would prep was is there now smooth it all out, primer and go for your own colour.

sure there some expirence on here that could talk you tho it.

hth scott.

there is no way you can undo what they have done in an easy way and bring it back to the original paint.

The way to go is flat down the existing paint job to a layer below the original paint so that the stickers come off as well, prime it, smooth it and paint it properly. Then lacker and buff it down to polish

[Quiff Wichard]

where is northwind!!??

he painted his wole bike heself- he shud know-

not undermining previous advice-

and.

Hi Moses ! hope u well

as already said you will have to rub it down to below the original paint/laquer remove all the stickers and paint it up from there, shouldnt cost alot if you do all the prep work yourself and then get someone to blow some qualty 2pack paint on the panels dont use spraycans the paints crap, 2pack paint is the stuff they use on cars and is a much much harder paint and comes up nice and shiney the paints/materials will peobably come to £40/£50 then say £100/£150 for someones labour.

[yorkie_chris]

Gotta think what it's covering up, Trying to get it back to original is going to be a pain.

2pack paint is really nasty stuff, not really possible to do at home AFAIK

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

where is northwind!!??

he painted his wole bike heself- he shud know-

I've only got experience with creating dodgy home spray jobs, not undoing them

Very unlikely you'll be able to restore the old paint... You can cut the new stuff back but the chances of getting all the new stuff off without damaging the new stuff are basically zero, sorry... Realistically, new paint is what's needed. Hmm, though there's an outside chance here... If they've used a low-quality paint, like halfords cellulose or similiar, it'll be soluble in chemicals that won't attack the original paint. Frinstance, petrol disolves cellulose paint, but not the original. Very long shot, I have no idea if it'd actually work...

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

where is northwind!!??

he painted his wole bike heself- he shud know-

not undermining previous advice-

and.

Hi Moses ! hope u well

hehehe I'm good Quiff thnx

[Viney]

If what Northy says does not work, then im affraid its LOTS of elbow grease, lots of 80 grade Wet and dry and furry fingers! and rub the fairing and tank back . When i rubbed my tank down, i had to go to the metal where the decals where! For some reason the adhesive on the stickers really attacked the paint, and even on the metal you could see traces of the Suzuki sticker!

As for the original paint, its a 3 paint system. Silver undercoat, Blue translucent colour, then clear coat on top. Its not cheap for the paint thats for sure. May be worth spraying the whole bike a different colour?

If you want to get it to a decent finish once you have finished, you are going to have to remove all the offending DIY paint, which unfortunatley will mean damaging the original Suzuki paint underneath (not a bad thing IMO because its pretty crap anyway).

When all paint work is removed back to bare metal (on the tank) and gelcoat (on the fairing) you will need to prime & topcoat (two pack acrylic primer & topcoat), or prime, basecoat & clearcoat (two pack acrylic primer, solvent based basecoat, if you can still get it anywhere or waterbased basecoat & then two pack high solids acrylic clear). This is not a job for an enthusiastic DIYer, as you have already seen on the bike you want to buy.

You really need to seek professional assistance if you want the bike to look any better than it does now.

If you get it professionally done you can cut the costs quite considerably by doing all the preparation yourself & supplying the parts ready for primer.

Good luck, it would be good to see after it is done

Alan