Cost to spray fuel tank

[Kosmic Kartman]

£200 in one colour and 2 pack lacquer is about right if it has no dents. £80 for a mud guard is about right too. A lot people that don't spray think it's a lot of money to pay. You can do it cheaper if you use a rattle can but you won't get the same results and after a few months your paint work will look shite. I recently sprayed an R1 mud guard for my Fazer, cut corners because it was mine and a year later it looks a pile of crap that has crazed on the sides. There's a lot of work that goes into spraying a tank and if dents aren't sorted correctly they will show through after painting. It is very time consuming and the work that's involved isn't always cost effective for the sprayer... Think minimum wage and for the love of it. Trust me.

Helmets are another story altogether. Intricate lines and designs take a lot of masking and rubbing down between coats and I'd say than 80% of a job is usually dusty rubbing down, cleaning, masking and cleaning out air brushes with only 20% actually spraying.

So when someone gives you a quote for a job it is at an often a reduced price to get the work. I don't know about other people but when you touch one of my paint jobs or my helmet  :lol it is smooth to the touch and you won't be able to feel the layers of paint under the lacquer.

Here's a few I did earlier.



















And one of my lids