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pgtips
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 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:14 pm Post subject: Some knowledgeable advice please |
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Hi,
I've been rebuilding a 1302 Ls and at the stage it with the painter.
I like the new mazda soul red metallic, its a pearl.
I also like a kawasaki motorbike red colour, also a pearl.
Would there be any benefit/difference or anything else I should be thinking about. My painter doesn't seem keen to do the bike colour but to me, as someone who knows nothing about spraying, they are both pearls, both a pain to touch up and probably to spray.
One is a motorbike colour, about 6 years old I think, the other is on a new car but does that make any difference. I can't decide if its the pearl colour/spraying that is bothering him or maybe he is trying to steer me to a flat colour.
Does motorcycle colours make any difference, do they get discontinued in some way earlier or something, or something else ?
many thanks
PG
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Q-Dog
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marklee
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motorcycle colours are very labour intensive to apply. They can have as many as 8 base coats of various shades and pearl effects to build up the colour, are nigh impossible to apply evenly over large surfaces and a nightmare to blow in or repair. On bikes with small panels that can be individually painted they are good, but on a car I would agree with your painter..
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buguy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Its very unlikely to be even a tri-stage paint for the bike. Pick the color you like. If for some crazy reason, the bike is somethink weird, see if the paint guy will go to the bike a do a prophit on it. They scan it with a special camera and it averages out the color and will give you a very very close match to it. Then you can have it mixed into whatever you want. base/clear, single stage....whatever. But id be willing to bet my left nut the Kawi color is nothing more than a base/clear. |
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pgtips
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buguy
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| With a prophit, they actually take a picture of the color on a bike and then mix it to that formula the camera comes up with. If you have a paint code, call the paint store and give them the code and see if they can mix it in whatever you want it in. Base/clear is what I would use. Whatever brand you have locally. |
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