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Cruiser
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| By any chance has anyone figured the paint match to the Ice Blue color? I would like to paint my aluminum parts and the color match to it would be a great help. The other option is to change the color to something totally different...Dwight |
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Visionary
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| You'll never find it.
Your best bet is find a custom painter in your town and let him have at it. I tried an tried and finaly wounder up at a custom painter and he did a great job.
Your going to read 20 post and wind up back here doing what I said.
Better yet do a search here and you'll find out
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Cruiser
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Danbury, Connecticut | Why not just order the paint from the dealer. That's what I did & it matched perfectly. It came as one Qt. paint & 1 Pt. catalyst with mixing instructions-my brother is in the Autobody business so he painted it for me. It's pricey stuff but I really didn't want it looking like Goober went wild with a rattle can. |
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Cruiser
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| Yeah, your best bet is to order it from the dealer. |
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Pittsburgh, PA | Dealer is your only safe/real bet. Anything else is a guess |
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Cruiser
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| Thanks guys...I have a good body shop here and I may hit them up and see what they can do..my other thought is to change to a color to go with the blue that is in the bike...like a dark blue. D |
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Iron Butt
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | Take a small, removable piece of trim to your local auto body jobber store, their computer analysis scan will match the paint exactly. Did that for my 93 VENTURE painted factory bronze and also to match the color of the door panels in my 50 year old Thunderbird (on older stuff, find a trim piece that hasn't been exposed to 50 years of UVA/UVB for an exact match). Cost will be a push with the dealers pricing and you'll walk out with the paint not a receipt and a six week wait for the paint. |
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Visionary
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| SYNSTR - 2012-09-25 11:31 AM Take a small, removable piece of trim to your local auto body jobber store, their computer analysis scan will match the paint exactly. Did that for my 93 VENTURE painted factory bronze and also to match the color of the door panels in my 50 year old Thunderbird (on older stuff, find a trim piece that hasn't been exposed to 50 years of UVA/UVB for an exact match). Cost will be a push with the dealers pricing and you'll walk out with the paint not a receipt and a six week wait for the paint. Auto place that can scan the paint will only come up with car colors. I all ready have been there and they said there was no bike colors in there national system |
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Cruiser
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| A couple of years ago I got a fairing for my Midnight Cherry Kingping and took it to a professional auto body shop for painting.
Bottom line, they couldn't match the Victory Midnight Cherry and had to order the 2-part paint from Victory. |
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Iron Butt
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | johnnyvision - 2012-09-25 2:47 PM
SYNSTR - 2012-09-25 11:31 AM Take a small, removable piece of trim to your local auto body jobber store, their computer analysis scan will match the paint exactly. Did that for my 93 VENTURE painted factory bronze and also to match the color of the door panels in my 50 year old Thunderbird (on older stuff, find a trim piece that hasn't been exposed to 50 years of UVA/UVB for an exact match). Cost will be a push with the dealers pricing and you'll walk out with the paint not a receipt and a six week wait for the paint. Auto place that can scan the paint will only come up with car colors. I all ready have been there and they said there was no bike colors in there national system
That sounds like your jobber needs to step up a bit, as I said, I got a quart of dead on matching paint for my then owned 1993 YAMAHA VENTURE mettalic Bronze paint for a trailer from my local jobber, and that was 10 years ago |
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Cruiser
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| johnnyvision - 2012-09-25 2:47 PM
SYNSTR - 2012-09-25 11:31 AM Take a small, removable piece of trim to your local auto body jobber store, their computer analysis scan will match the paint exactly. Did that for my 93 VENTURE painted factory bronze and also to match the color of the door panels in my 50 year old Thunderbird (on older stuff, find a trim piece that hasn't been exposed to 50 years of UVA/UVB for an exact match). Cost will be a push with the dealers pricing and you'll walk out with the paint not a receipt and a six week wait for the paint. Auto place that can scan the paint will only come up with car colors. I all ready have been there and they said there was no bike colors in there national system
Thats a cop out excuse. Sounds like they are trying to match it to a preexisting paint. Take it to a place that does custom paint matching. Any body shop worth half their weight in salt should be able to come up with a dead nut match.
For touch up I use my wife's nail polish. I shit you not, she found a nail polish than is almost an exact match to the Vision Ice Blue. Her toes were painted that color for our wedding day. |
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Central Wisconsin | Kelvininin - 2012-10-12 9:48 AM For touch up I use my wife's nail polish. I shit you not, she found a nail polish than is almost an exact match to the Vision Ice Blue. Her toes were painted that color for our wedding day. You have my interest in what brand/color of nail polish your wife discovered?
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Visionary
Posts: 4278
| Kelvininin - 2012-10-12 9:48 AM johnnyvision - 2012-09-25 2:47 PM SYNSTR - 2012-09-25 11:31 AM Take a small, removable piece of trim to your local auto body jobber store, their computer analysis scan will match the paint exactly. Did that for my 93 VENTURE painted factory bronze and also to match the color of the door panels in my 50 year old Thunderbird (on older stuff, find a trim piece that hasn't been exposed to 50 years of UVA/UVB for an exact match). Cost will be a push with the dealers pricing and you'll walk out with the paint not a receipt and a six week wait for the paint. Auto place that can scan the paint will only come up with car colors. I all ready have been there and they said there was no bike colors in there national system Thats a cop out excuse. Sounds like they are trying to match it to a preexisting paint. Take it to a place that does custom paint matching. Any body shop worth half their weight in salt should be able to come up with a dead nut match. For touch up I use my wife's nail polish. I shit you not, she found a nail polish than is almost an exact match to the Vision Ice Blue. Her toes were painted that color for our wedding day.
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