Who knew color matching could be such a pain? I've known since the bike was purchased it has been down - scratches on the exhaust covers, a grove in the cowl, and grind marks on the left fairing protector all testified to that. Now it seems the color was changed at the time.

So far the red mixed is too orange even though the color match chips looked identical, and it took four tries at the black to give a match. At least, I hope it's a match. We'll find out tomorrow when I pick it up.

A bottle of touch up paint from Honda using the color code from the bike came out with red that was quite a bit more orange than it's present color. That means the Honda cold isn't going to work. In fact, the color mixed up for me is a close match to the Honda touch up paint. But I really like the present color better.

Oh well, I need to sand the fairing down again anyway. The paint job showed up some imperfections in my repairs that need to be gone over.

Sigh.

 

What colour scheme you have on the bike? You saw this?
https://cbrforum.com/forum/cbr-1000f...-match-144462/

 

Hey man I feel your pain... some colors are almost impossible to match. I once had a '97 Passat I took for rust repairs and the painter guy told me straight up he'll try his best but he's not gonna get it to match 100% since there's only nine shades of pure white on the same color code and since it was 10years old it had darkened a little. Some colors are slightly translucent so the bottom color plays a part in the outcome, I had a '89 Peugeot 405 that was red but painted over with volvo c70 saffron, some douche tried breaking into the trunk and busted the lid, I took a white lid off another junker to the paint shop and told them to first paint it red, they didn't and the outcome was clearly more yellow than the rest of the car. Another one was one of the S80 Volvos that had suffered a driver door bender and was re-painted. It actually looked to be a100% match, until the sun hit it. It had differwnt amount of metal flakes than the original paint so it looked darker in the sun.

I actually have a few photos in my computer at home of my F2 just after I washed it. The sun was shining so I pushed it to the street and thought I got great photos of it, but when I looked at them on screen the entire bike is like a patch quilt, no two red spots are an exact match with each other. In the shade it actually looked pretty good but in direct sunlight there was at least five different shades of red all the way from pink to orange depending on the part being metal or plastic...

 

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Try this - they are known to be the best at giving you the best match to the original paint.
http://www.colorrite.com/wizardresults.cfm

It's never easy with older paint schemes due to ageing of the paint, ultra-violet light fading etc etc.

 

Here's the bike pre-crash.

Today I'm headed to the Honda dealer to get color codes - again. Gave them to the paint guy but he lost them. I'll also get a touch-up bottle from them and see if that matches. If it does I'll give Color Rite a try.

 

If that's the same red than in my f2, RAL 3001 signal red comes pretty darn close.

 

This is R109 - Passion Red. I think it is 339 in the standox palette.

 

Thanks guys. Our Honda dealer came up with Passion Red as the stock color, but didn't have a sample to compare when I got the codes last week. The picture above looks like a match. When the fairing was sanded I ran into a coat of red that looked red-orange, so thought maybe the bike had been painted a different color. That's why we tried to color match. I ordered a touch up pen to verify the color before mixing, but after seeing the picture above am pretty sure Passion Red is what we want.

 

That's what Colorite says
http://www.colorrite.com/wizardresults.cfm

I've never heard of them making a mistake.

 

If it wasn't for the different color found under the clear and top coat when sanded I'd be 100% sure. But I'll wait to compare the touch up color with the bike.