Painting Fairings And Tank

Not sure if this is a 'joke' thread or not...but if you think you would be able to get your tank/fairings painted to a professional standard for £200 you are seriously kidding yourself, add a grand to that figure and maybe a bit more for a place like Dream Machine to do it.

 

You may get a mobile car painter to do this but £200 sounds more like mate rate than a genuine price.

I paid £250 for a very professional paint job on a tank, cheapest was £180 but couldn’t commit to when it would be completed ‘could be a day could be 6 weeks’ wasn’t what I was looking for…..

You may do better painting the panel yourself if you’re fairly competent.

 

Proper respray is £1200 ish

 

I paid £200 for a partial respray of one fairing panel after it was scratched.

 

Depends on the job.

For a one colour spray job on good condition fairings & undented tanks at a car repair shop in the NW is £400ish. You get your own decals. They will then lacquer them over. You have to ask around and hunt out someone for this cost and may have to pay cash.

For a whizz bang job by a bike painter, with a multicolour design the same job is £900 including decals.

Are yours so bad T.cut won't restore them?

As for doing it yourself, unless you really know what your 're doing, there's a good chance you will be disappointed by the final outcome. You need a suitable place to work, its really messy (clean up), you need all the gear (cost) and its a lot of work (time).

I've just made a set of fairings presentable as a stopgap for my project bike. They will have some large decals added too which will help hide the blemishes! Fillers, sandpaper etc £20, two cans of paint -colour matched to existing- £35, two cans of clear £20. Thats a quick £75 and its really just for 25% of the bikes bodywork.

But maybe you're a natural, with loads of time, money, space and bored wanting something to do?

 

You get what you pay for in life as a rule, but i don't necessary agree with the higher the price you payout the better the paintworks, the attention to detail is down to the individual sprayer and not the company.

 

Primer, paint & lacquer for fairings alone would be in the region of £80-£90 for rattle cans (one colour, solid).
It then becomes a labour of love. The more time spent in prep the better the result.

 

Painters hate pre painted fairings and anything that needs repair os a pain in the backside, they don't work to day rates, they work to job process, also they hate using supplied paint as if the finish is rubbish and its crap paint, they get blames, not the paint that was supplied.

My Adidas Pani paintjob including the tank cover was if i remember rightly about a grand, seemed fair, the gloss / matt black Pani paintjob before that was about £800 but was simpler and the base color black is cheaper paint.

He currently has every panel for my 996 and that will be c£900 .. no tank.

If someone quoted me £200 I'd walk out !!!

 

get @Expat Jack to do it, hes handy with a rattle can

 

The repair is a simple job. Happy to help.
Paint is laborious and expensive.
Have you considered a wrap? Check out @tcrofty7 new post for just how stunning it can look. That’s from Sublime. Or there is evoboy.
If you get a wrap and drop it it’s simple to get the panel re-wrapped to match - bonus!

 

That was my thought

Track bike - only needs to pass the 10-paces test

 

Depends who you know. I used to get my race fairings done for £200-£250. And still could.

however, that’s from a friend.

Generally people are paying £500+ for race fairings now which is bananas. I’d expect to pay over a grand for a decent road job retail.

honestly don’t bother getting decent spray jobs on track or race bikes. Total waste of time

 

I did my track panels with a gravity paint gun off my air compressor, surprised how well it turned out, passed the 10 paces test without lacquer

 

Rattle can outside on a sunny day, passes get as close as you like test, wet and dry paper and cutting paste makes a shit job look less shit.