Painting seat panels.

[norrie]

I'm thinking about painting my bike and was wondering if anyone has had any success in painting the seat panels?
I think it would look a lot better with them painted as well.


Norrie.

[shedmonkey]

Iv not painted the seat panels but have painted other plastic bits ,shouldnt be a problem as long as you use a plastic primer.

[AZ]

Get them nice and warm(but dont melt them) with a heat gun or hair dryer and wash with hot soapy water(heat brings any remaining mould release agent to the surface and soapy water washes it away as its a water based release agent) then plastic prime after abrading with fine scotch brite.Re prime with a high build primer,loads needed to fill the moulded texture and flat when dry untill smooth. Now paint in desired colour.

[weirdo]

Doesn't the 650ie have colour coded seat panels?

[Crap Tartan]

on Mels 650ie the seat panels were colour coordinated and the side panels were the plain black plastic textured finish.

[norrie]

Ok thanks. I was thinking about leaving them dimpled but not sure what it would look like. Would it not take ages to fill the dimples with filler primer?
I was wondering about leaving them unpainted as I'm painting the wheels as well but not sure.


Norrie.

[AZ]

You could give em 1 coat of filler primer then a light skim of filler,rub down and re prime and paint but my paint was free so i just put loads on and wet flatted it back untill smooth.Lazy really ,just couldn`t be bothered mixing filler and priming twice.