Spraying plastics

[LiamB]

I want to respray the whole of my bike when I take it off the road for work soon, is it possible to spray plastic without it cracking and looking crap yet? Would just like gloss black all over again.

Cheers

[LiamB]

Prof Prolapse said:

I must be missing something here. Why wouldn't you be able to spray a plastic part?

Probably 99% of road vehicles have sprayed plastic parts.

If it's fked that's a different matter.

Normally when you spray plastics on a bike the paint cracks and looks st after a while

Plastics are fine, just a bit scratched.

anonymous said:

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Ah, cheers

I don't think there is any body shops around here that would do them for me, and I would rather just pay for just paint rather than paint + labour..

[LiamB]

Thanks for all the replies.

My bikes plastics are very flexible, I can bend the front mudguard so it points to the floor and it doesn't snap. I do also go off road quite a lot on it so I think it might be better to wrap it gloss black if there is less downsides to that. Or just keep trying to find panels to buy.. I can buy the tiniest stupid little bolts for my bike but not the plastics

[LiamB]

peteO said:

alternatively there are loads of cheap 'sticker bombs' on ebay.

I would rather cut my bks off than sticker bomb anything!

I am also not setting fire to my bike or anything it would just go bad, think of the kittens etc.


Thanks for the suggestions still guys, still deciding what to do but these replies are swaying me towards wrapping it

[LiamB]

MajorProblem said:

What colour are they at the minute? You could have a go at dying them.

They are just black, not sprayed but actual black plastic

[LiamB]

peteO said:

woah woah woah, alright pissy knickers. was just a suggestion!

Was nothing angry about it, was just saying anything sticker bombed instantly looks incredibly st

[LiamB]

peteO said:

LiamB said:

peteO said:

woah woah woah, alright pissy knickers. was just a suggestion!

Was nothing angry about it, was just saying anything sticker bombed instantly looks incredibly st

fair enough....

you decided what you're gonna do then?

Nope.. I want to buy panels but it's impossible, so I think the next best thing is just to wrap it I think. Will either get someone to do it, or attempt it myself depending on how it's done.