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Old 05-30-2007, 01:53 PM
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My 01 F4i fell over in the garage and scratched the engine case. Does anyone know what color the paint is for a touch up? Does Honda sell this as a touch up paint?
 
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That kinda dirty gold color on the clutch/stator covers, right? I'd like to know too.

Now that I think about it, it looks sort of like a powdercoat based on how mine chipped in spots. At first I thought it was gold anodized magnesium. [&:]
 
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Old 06-01-2007, 06:16 PM
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I can't answer your question about what the color is. But as to wheter or not Honda sells it, the answer is probably no. I tried getting factory paint from the sealership and they said it doesn't exsist. They recommend I go to colorite.com.
 
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I just spray painted mine black. Matches the plastics.
 
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Old 06-02-2007, 12:50 AM
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I just spray painted mine black. Matches the plastics.
How long ago did you spray paint it and how is it holding up? I was considering doing this, but it would be nice to get more perspective on it.
 
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Old 06-02-2007, 12:56 AM
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I did some searching and someone mentioned a "pewter" color name from a brand that escapes me right now.

I had an idea today; get a refillable aerosol paint can from Harbor Freight and mix my own paint from high-temp enamels. Shouldn't be too hard to mix something up that is at least pretty close.
 
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It is a powder coat and can't be bought as a touch up paint. I know because like many I dropped my bike in the garage and went through all of this. I also had to have a tail section painted. Honda does not supply the dealerships or anyone else with paint and colour rite sucks. Anyway I ended up buying a new stator cover through Honda and it cost me 50 bucks which was a lot less than it would have been to have the thing refinished privately.
 
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Old 06-02-2007, 09:23 PM
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Thanks for the ideas.
I'm going to buy a new alternator cover. I looked it up on Yamaha of Troy parts search and it's $63. That will get rid of the scrape and missing paint and I won't always be reminded of when it fell over.
 
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Rabbit, its been about a year and it looks like the day I did it.
Just used some good quality epoxy paint in Gloss Black. The only
hard thing was that you have to remove the fairing and (blue) tape
off the area about a 1" down in a circle. Other wise youve got this
squidish look.BTW, I actually custom mixed up some paint by going to
a craft store and got some 2oz bottles of Gold, Black, and Green
paint. Use the Gold as the base and add the Black and Green to taste.

But then, WTF, IMO, it looks better black anyway.
 
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Old 06-03-2007, 05:26 AM
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Do you happen to remember what brand paint it was? As stated the cover is aluminum, and you can't spray just anything on aluminum and expect it to stay there. I don't have to worry about masking off the area due to the fairings not being on the bike, and the engine not even being in the frame. Thanks for the help.
 


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