28-05-12, 08:43 PM
it's not so unusual for a body shop to struggle with bike paint codes. paint systems are all geared towards car paint codes and by comparison bikes are not very well catered for.
colour matching is another issue. a real bike specialist will have records that, for example, a 2001 fazer in dpbml will require a silver base followed by two passes of colour and one pass of lacquer and a lava red gen 2 might need one ink coat followed by two passes of lacquer etc etc. this knowledge is hard won and not known by a general paint shop used to dealing with cars most of the time...
then there's exceptions that prove the rule - like my fazer's bodywork metallic black that was listed under 'yamaha metallic black' (i.e. not fazer specific) in my local paint guys system and is a perfect match!
it always puzzles me that people have time and effort put into vehicles 'to ready for sale' - an admission that the work needed doing but there's no time to appreciate and enjoy that work before the vehicle goes. each to their own.
is it clean enough?