Paint job costs?

I so agree with the black frame, its just I spoke to a lad who I bought some walkie talkies off and he said that the orange makes the bike look cheap, i just cant see it, Im thinking hot hot hot...

Originally Posted by hindle8907

i know tell me about it ...... email him see what you get ... do you have lowers ? or a belly pan .

Rear hugger , lowers....

RavingDavis got his entire bike, except the tank, including lowers, resprayed in it's original Suzuki colour for 250 quid. See the photo's of the NWR6 weekend for pictures of his bike (fully faired yellow pointy). It wasn't an absolutely perfect match, but I think that's only because the tank has faded over the years and he was on a budget so didn't want to spray bits that didn't need spraying. You need the bike to be clean and in the sunshine and look hard before you see it.

Because of the lowers there was as much work and paint as an entire half faired bike. I think the guy probably sold himself short and this was a cheap price, but 400-500 for a full respray is as much as I would be prepared to pay. PM RavingDavis for contact details and the full story, he wasn't too happy with the fact the guy took longer than he said he would, but I think it was a homer and he had to fit it around his employers jobs. He also chipped a panel after spraying it so had to respray a section, but hey, anyone can accidentally drop a panel and chip the paint.

Pop along to your local college, sometimes you will find they need panels for their students to paint (if they offer automotive courses that is) I have a complete set of panels at my local college being painted Lamborghini Rosso Metalic, the cool bit was that all I needed to do was buy cheap panels off ebay (cracked and scuffed does not matter if they are being painted) all its costing me is paint and ABS welding rods! time scales are a bit poor - from start to finish will probably be 2 months or so that is why I bought a complete set of panels so that I could keep the bike on the road whilst they were being painted. Another advantage of having 'new' panels on the way for summer is that I havn't had to wash my bike for weeks! its wearing a layer of volcanic ash with pride!
Cheers
AL

Having a stepdad who is a car body repairer and sprayer I've never paid for a respray in my life! hehe

Originally Posted by toby_smith

Having a stepdad who is a car body repairer and sprayer I've never paid for a respray in my life! hehe

Same My brother does it too PM me if you want a quote or sumit.

Originally Posted by toby_smith

Having a stepdad who is a car body repairer and sprayer I've never paid for a respray in my life! hehe

Lucky bugger, at first it was for my vanity but after taking off a couple of stickers I found out why the stickers were put there massive bloody scuff...Bast*rds

my local sprayer did my cbr 600, needed some body filling and smoothing

he did the nose cone, both side fairing, both rear fairings, tank, hugger, mud guardy thing, and did and awesome paint job on both wheels,

all for £300

which includes removing all the standard stickers

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by zachl

my local sprayer did my cbr 600, needed some body filling and smoothing

he did the nose cone, both side fairing, both rear fairings, tank, hugger, mud guardy thing, and did and awesome paint job on both wheels,

all for £300

which includes removing all the standard stickers

sweet i need to find a decent spray shop .

basically my blokey works for a spraying company during the week but free lances at the weekend, so has access to everything propperly including the ovens, gave them to him friday evening, got them back sunday, cant complain