Bike Respray

[kwacker]

As the bike is in bits again. How much would it cost to have all the plastics resprayed? Nothing fancy just a plain colour. I'm getting tired of Kawasaki green.

Kwacker

[Mad Dave]

I would guess it depends how much of the prep work you're prepared to do yourself. If you remove the stickers (with a heatgun or something) you may save a couple of hours labour, for instance.

[Vitesse39]

Do as much prep work as you can as it's just time consuming and not difficult.
Panels off, very gently remove the stickers, then get yourself some 1200 or 1500 grade wet and dry paper and a soft block. Use it wet and keep it well wet as your doing it.
You need to get a very good smooth surface, no dents, bumps or imperfections, cause if you can see any with the matt finish you'll get from the paper, you'll see it a mile off when it's painted.
This needs to be done gently and will take ages as there's so many nooks and crannies, but it's the bit that costs for someone else to do, so it wil save you a packet.

[stoppie]

You could give this guy a ring.. John (tradespray)tel: [phone] he's in the east midlands and doesn't charge the earth for a full respray, (£150 - £300)and that includes blasting as well if reqd. He does work like respraying older bikes with the latest colours - that kind of thing.