Painting plastic...

[FST4RD]

I don't even know where to even begin putting this... but tech seemed the most appropriate.

On my road going motocross bike the guards, light surround, generally all the plastic are faded to all buggery, but all straight and not broken.

I want to repaint them so the bike looks heaps better and I want to have a go myself. Being plastic I assume i'll need to give it a light sand and make sure it's clean, then get some spray type paint thats not going to effect the plastic and apply?

Or should I go about this another way?

[thegreatestben]

We sell a couple brands of paint, and they make primer specifically for painting plastics. It's clear and promotes adhesion according to the can

[FST4RD]

We sell a couple brands of paint, and they make primer specifically for painting plastics. It's clear and promotes adhesion according to the can

Where bout you work?
I was wondering about primer....

[Bling]

Go into spraystore on st asaph street, down towards hagley end. They will have what you need most likely.

Get all my supplies from there as they are pretty reasonable for most stuff. They know their paint too.

You can also get paint @ supercheap (probably repco too) in small spray cans. Including plastic primer and clear coat.

I'd go spray store first though.

[thegreatestben]

I work at Repco. I can't recommend anything from experience, but generally with paint, you get what you pay for.

[FST4RD]

I work at Repco. I can't recommend anything from experience, but generally with paint, you get what you pay for.

Yeah your right, I get discount from repco so might head along there for starters, New plastics ain't that much, but I thought i'd give this a go and then I can pick and choose colours....

At the moment it's kawasaki green (cause it's a kawasaki ) So might just repaint it the factory colour.

[MR2BOY23]

I work at supercheap auto. We sell the septone range. They do a plastic adheison primer works great, and we also sell vinyl/plastic paint. Customer the other day was painting his kids little bike, said it workd great. 15$ a can roughly

[MR2BOY23]

acrylic topcoat aswell to give it a nice finish

[frost]

oh septone is sh!t. the nozzles give a crap spay and prone to spluttering. also gas runs out before the can is empty.

VHT from repco is the best can stuff by far, very good nozzles and paint is of good quality. i have done plenty of plastic and fiberglass bumpers with just there oxide primers and paint with great results. its all in the prep, clean and wipe done with GOOD prepsol and your away. dont use turps or anything like that they still have residue

[MR2BOY23]

sounds like you got a bad batch of septone .. Ive actually found it to be superior to vht

[FST4RD]

sounds like you got a bad batch of septone .. Ive actually found it to be superior to vht

Hahaha sounds like I got a bit of mixed feedback here

Going to remove some of the corroded/rusted bolts and get some stainless ones from blacks as well....

It's a '94 and only done 9000k's but asthetically corroded bolts and faded plastic... so just want to get it looking 100% again

[soven]

Best I tried was Duplicolor Vinyl Dye from Repco. Septone and Vht didnt come out right. I used it to spray the horrible silver console panels in the old celica to black and no one noticed that it is not factory.