I had $730 in the whole deal. Nobody came out on this deal. The body shop had countless hours of messing around trying to get the color to match. Plus I had $200 in paint I don't know what to do with now.
If someone had the color on hand and it matched the first time it wouldn't be that expensive. I tried to use a body shop that does a lot of custom color paint jobs and they also use PPG but they didn't have one of the colors to mix the paint. It was $900 for 4 ounces. Needless to say they didn't want to pay that just for one job.
I can see $200 for painting the lowers if the paint was inexpensive and it was a scuff and shoot. Then there still wouldn't be much profit for the painter including his time. We took my lowers all the way down because I didn't want any of the old clear coat under the new paint. Very time consuming. Now I'm glad I didn't ship them away for paint because there is supposedly several variations to the "Inferno Orange" PPG paint so unless the person had one of the guns that reads the paint off the part and matches it perfectly I would have been shipping them back. We painted a small piece 3 times to get it to match the rest of the bike out in the sun. This paint changes color a little bit depending on the light and the lowers have a lot of curves to them which reflects light even worse. The test card would match the rest of the bike and when we shot the lowers it didn't match when we put the pieces next to the bike. Had to start all over again. Finally we just played with air pressure on the gun to get it right. Major pain in the A$$
I am very happy with the results and I have enough product on the lowers now so they should take a beating for many miles to come.
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Topic: Repainting my lowers after 11,000 miles (Read 6275 times)