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My question is my bike is red, and the side cover I just bought is black. It needs painted either way. There is no way I'm going to be able to paint it myself and match the color to the existing bike. Any ideas? Anyone used a chrome paint before out of a rattle can? Is doing black better than a mismatched red? any ideas would be great.
 
What's the rest of the paint like? Why not do the whole bike?
 
I'd go black with both sides, or go to napa and see if they can match the paint to your bike.
 
No idea of cost, but I saw something on TV recently where some guys worked out a way to chrome plate anything. Maybe if you google chromeplating plastic something will come up? You would need an incredibly perfect surface I would imagine.

I quite like what Honda did here:

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Fenders are chrome, tank is a beautiful deep candy red, and side panels are plastic finished in a matt alloy finish. I have sat on a bike exactly like this and it is very attractive!
 
get something to match the frame colour... then paint them the same. failing which, go to a car body shop, give them the good red sidecover and ask them to match it on the other. simple. all the faffing around buying this, that and the next thing, let alone the time taken, it would have been easier, quicker, more professional looking to hand it over to someone in the first instance... imo
 
JimmyR said:
No idea of cost, but I saw something on TV recently where some guys worked out a way to chrome plate anything. Maybe if you google chromeplating plastic something will come up? You would need an incredibly perfect surface I would imagine.

I quite like what Honda did here:

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Fenders are chrome, tank is a beautiful deep candy red, and side panels are plastic finished in a matt alloy finish. I have sat on a bike exactly like this and it is very attractive!
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That is an option, I really like the alloy look with the red. Thanks for the pic.
 
I should have said this in the beginning. My father in law is having a hood and front quarter panels off a GTO painted in about a year. While his painter is doing these parts, he said he would paint my side covers and tank the same color as the car for just the extra cost of the paint, which would be minimal. I am just looking for a temporary fix for now. I just dont want it to look horrible until then.
 
CEEDUBB said:
I am just looking for a temporary fix for now. I just dont want it to look horrible until then.
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Then I'd find some red rattle-can that is close to the red you want and do both covers. Then when you have the money to do a pro job, do all the plastics at the same time.

Alternatively older 550s have black side panels that don't match their tanks so you could go that route. The black paint would probably be pretty cheap too.
 
Stainless steel (colored)appliance paint would get you a color close to the brushed look
 
I tried a few colors, and they sucked. I did buy a can of chrome spray paint and it turned out looking like brushed aluminum, but when on the bike it looked HORRIBLE! I forgot to take a picture of that. Went to the auto parts store and they had a can of spray that the lid on the can matched my other side cover exactly. Got home sprayed it, and the true color was WAY off the color on the lid. Ended up blending two colors of spray paint to get the color I wanted, and it turned out pretty good for a "quick fix".
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When I got it.

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after sanding
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The color that was supposed to match...
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My blended job of two different spray paints.
 
The final result doesn't look too bad in that picture, as far as color matching. Are you going to hit it with some clear to bring out the shine a bit or is this good enough for now?
 
I wanted to make sure the color was close enough before I added the decal and glossed it. I didnt have an emblem so I added the decal instead.
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