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Diddums

Diddums

Diddums

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I need to paint up some areas on my fixer upper Kawasaki.

The colour I need is Candy Cardinal Red which is a three stage paint process.

I'm seeing prices all over the place, with some places charging upwards of £20 for a 400ml rattle can, which means £60 for a few coats.

Before I pay this, any ideas on how to do this better or cheaper?

Cheers!
 
Honestly, get a body shop to do it. I tried doing some trim parts with a multi stage pearl rattle cans and initially it came out ok, but after a few months it started to peel/flake, tbh that was likely my poor application, but the cost of doing that vs the body shop that re did it wasn't all that much once you factor in your own time etc.
Though if you do go down the rattle can route get some better nozzles.
 
I've rattle canned parts of a motorcycle before it was fine.

If you are doing it red put a few layers of white first.

Do plenty of coats of clear coat/lacquer.
 
Prep is key. Make sure you get a really good base-coat of primer that's properly adhered. Rough the surface up with some 2000 grit paper before applying the primer. Then wet-sand up to 4000 grit the primer between each coat before applying any of the colour coats. I did the lip spoiler on my S2000 and it held up OK using that method.
Personally, for a tricky colour like that I'd pay someone to do it.
 
Cheers. I'm still very much on the fence on what to do. I'd like the bike to be as original as possible, which is why I'd rather opt for a touch up than a full respray. Plus that colour really pops when it's polished properly.

I'm gonna chuck some of the panels in the car and take it to a pro, see what they say. Having just refreshed my BBQ this afternoon, I can safely say that I can't spray paint for toffee.
 
Diddums said:
I need to paint up some areas on my fixer upper Kawasaki.

The colour I need is Candy Cardinal Red which is a three stage paint process.

I'm seeing prices all over the place, with some places charging upwards of £20 for a 400ml rattle can, which means £60 for a few coats.

Before I pay this, any ideas on how to do this better or cheaper?

Cheers!
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I don't think you can.. The design of triple coat paints (base + tint + lacquer) isn't easy to shortcut.. you can combine base + tint on areas that aren't likely to get direct reflected sunlight so you are effectively only having to match the normal colour, but anything you will have direct sunlight reflecting that allows you to see the underlying heavy metallic is going to be impossible without the full monty..
 
If you're trying to do a 3 stage pearl as a touch up, then you're going to have a bad time.

You have no idea what thickness each stage is on the original paint and even if you did, you're not going to be able to replicate it by hand = it won't colour match.


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