Ltank,
I ran into this discussion several years back when I decided to put a 19" wheel on to my FXR2, there is a difference between a FXR2 Front Fender and a FXR3 & FXR4 fender, at the time I was trying to figure out the difference, all I knew was they were different. Upon doing visual research it was determined that the only difference was the location of where they put the bracket to attach it to the forks, it's amazing how when you change that location you change the entire look of the fender, if you study an OEM FXR2 bike from the front you can see the difference of how the fenders set on the forks...it's simply the rotational axis of how the bracket mates with the fender and is welded at that particular spot, makes the fender actually look wider instead of narrower as it does on the FXR2.
Ok so you are thinking what does this have to do with my yellow pearl paint issue....well I am getting to that, once I determined that I wanted to go with the 19" wheel like what's on a FXR3 or FXR4 all be it that both the FXR3 has a thunderstar chrome wheel and the wheel on your FXR4 is a 1" axle wheel even though it was spoke, I decided to go with a 40 spoke OEM HD 19" wheel that was 3/4" axle and would slip right into position.
Once I determined this, I decided the appearance of the FXR3 or FXR4 fender had more appeal to me. SO I found a brand new "primed only" FXR3 fender. Now we are getting to your issue.
Once I found that fender now I needed to paint it....and that's the problem, HD does not offer the paint code for these CVO bikes....they want no one to "easily" go out and reproduce them....that's all fine and good until you as an OWNER of one needs to paint one....doesn't make any difference to them they just don't give you the paint code.
So what's your solution, same solution I used, I went to a painter of choice that I enjoy working with, gave him my 1999 OEM Front FXR2 Fender and said here, I want an exact match on this 1999 FXR3 primed Fender....it took him 15 or 20 tries until he realized that the base color was "GOLD" instead of "SILVER" and that whenever he was mixing the colors and putting on the paint it would come across too "pink", when he moved away from the "Silver" base and went to a "GOLD" base he instantly found the exact match.....Soooooo
What does all of this mean, it means if you take your front fender with your sample and tell your painter you want an exact match, with enough effort and determination they will get to the right color....just like my painter did, thus don't worry about the color they can figure it out, the dilemma for all of us is the attempts at figuring the decals or in your case the tribal graphics on your front fender....or your gas tank, for me it's the matching of the "harley Davidson HARLEY~DAVIDSON print on my gas tank and it being a hologram look to it....that would be the difficult part for sure.....
So if you want to paint your yellow fender, take it to a good or great automative or motorcycle painter....as I said my painter took 15-20 runs at it before he got it right, infact he called me in one time to look at one of his efforts and I said, nope wasn't it, keep trying...and try he did....and he got a perfect match....you can get to the same point....plus my guy was very reasonable $75.00 for painting that fender and it took him several weeks....now if I need something painted for my FXR2 (except for the gas tank) he knows the color code and how to paint it all to match much quicker.....and I am telling you he exactly matched it perfectly.....now if he could ONLY match the hologram Harley~Davidson I would have a very inexpensive back up plan if anything ever happened.....
Regards,
Tim
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