Respray

Harry Fox

Lads I’m looking to have my ZZR1100 resprayed
Any recommendations as to where to have it done

D3V!L

Where are you based ?

Harry Fox

Based in Nass
I was putting petrol in it and the tank paint blistered

D3V!L

Ken in the Motorcycle Paint shop , he's in Tallaght

Harry Fox

Is he good,expensive.thanks ?

D3V!L

Harry Fox wrote: »

Is he good,expensive.thanks ?

Give him a call, you get what you pay for with any paint job.

newmember2

There's some guy down that way too isn't there...near Mondello or somewhere? Anyone?

Japcati2020

Ken will give you 1 price via whats app after you send him photos,as per his request,then he will give you a totally different price when you meet him in person. Usually much more expensive with the extra added excuses thrown in for good measure.

That is my experience of him from the past.

Goose81

Yeah he is supposed to be ****e aswell. Tbh why not just bring it to a car place, that's what I have done in the past

Max Headroom

I've seen Ken's work...it's "ok"...but you don't get what you pay for....;)

davidglanza

Ger conlon in cork..
Outstanding work...

H_Lime

davidglanza wrote: »

Ger conlon in cork..
Outstanding work...

Gers work is spot on and he's good to deal with.

Goose81

Harry Fox wrote: »

Lads I’m looking to have my ZZR1100 resprayed
Any recommendations as to where to have it done

Sorry I never went into more detail as to who I used before. Carcraft crash repairs in Ainsley place Dublin. I took off all the fairing and brought it to them, they did a perfect colour match and the job was pretty good and the price was very good. About half of what the guy mentioned below was quoting me. Think it was 250 for the majority of fairings probably be 300 for a whole bike.

Little bit of orange peel but tbf every car on the road these days has orange peel, you could go balls out and get somewhere to do an unbelievable job but you won't get any change out of a grand I would say and for the bike we are talking about I doubt it's worth doing that. Paint job on most bikes is crap anyway from factory

cantdecide

davidglanza wrote: »

Ger conlon in cork..
Outstanding work...

He did some work on an Aprilia of mine a few years ago. He replicated the stunningly expensive factory graphics in paint. Absolutely spot on work and reasonably priced.

The QuietMan

+1 for Ger Conlon. Have had some work done by him, excellent workmanship and great prices. Work done by a biker for bikers.

Once all of this covid stuff finishes I’ll be getting many parts of my bikes done by him.

H_Lime

cantdecide wrote: »

He did some work on an Aprilia of mine a few years ago. He replicated the stunningly expensive factory graphics in paint. Absolutely spot on work and reasonably priced.

As one of at least two aprilia nuts on here I have to ask, any pics?:)

Jimmy Bottlehead

Goose81 wrote: »

Sorry I never went into more detail as to who I used before. Carcraft crash repairs in Ainsley place Dublin. I took off all the fairing and brought it to them, they did a perfect colour match and the job was pretty good and the price was very good. About half of what the guy mentioned below was quoting me. Think it was 250 for the majority of fairings probably be 300 for a whole bike.

Little bit of orange peel but tbf every car on the road these days has orange peel, you could go balls out and get somewhere to do an unbelievable job but you won't get any change out of a grand I would say and for the bike we are talking about I doubt it's worth doing that. Paint job on most bikes is crap anyway from factory

€300 for a while bike respray? I thought it'd be way more.

I've always wanted to get the Super Four resprayed but figured it'd be economic lunacy.

Goose81

Sure if you take the fairing off and bring it to them it's a piss easy job for them, just make sure to remove all the clips etc

Jimmy Bottlehead

Goose81 wrote: »

Sure if you take the fairing off and bring it to them it's a piss easy job for them, just make sure to remove all the clips etc

Ah sorry, I should have specified... what I have in mind is a tank respray, also get the plastics resprayed and ideally the frame too. Doubt I'd get that for €300 :P:D

cantdecide

H_Lime wrote: »

As one of at least two aprilia nuts on here I have to ask, any pics?:)

Love the Italian stuff...

Not sure if this'll work with the site gremlins at the moment

H_Lime

cantdecide wrote: »

Love the Italian stuff...

Not sure if this'll work with the site gremlins at the moment

01 mille? Very nice!
Own one and they get under the skin;)

cantdecide

I loved mine and I'll get another, I'm sure! There's a lovely Caponard on Adverts at the moment giving me naughty thoughts!!

H_Lime

cantdecide wrote: »

I loved mine and I'll get another, I'm sure! There's a lovely Caponard on Adverts at the moment giving me naughty thoughts!!

Oh I must have a gawk at it. I've my capo over 10 yrs, love the thing.
Red falco on for 1500 too, love mine when I had it.
Hope to see a rotax ape on your bench soon;)

D3V!L

Why all the hatred for the motorcycle paint shop ? Is it that bad ?

Ger Conlon did some work on one of my bikes and it came back looking factory. Couldn't fault it.

D3V!L

D3V!L wrote: »

Why all the hatred for the motorcycle paint shop ? Is it that bad ?

Ger Conlon did some work on one of my bikes and it came back looking factory. Couldn't fault it.

I had a small job done by him as well a few years ago and couldn't fault him. He does excellent work.

D3V!L

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I had a small job done by him as well a few years ago and couldn't fault him. He does excellent work.

Me too, he's a sound lad as well.

Japcati2020

D3V!L wrote: »

Why all the hatred for the motorcycle paint shop ? Is it that bad ?

Ger Conlon did some work on one of my bikes and it came back looking factory. Couldn't fault it.

It's not hatred.
It's called personal experience of dealing with him.
Personally I wouldnt use him again after the excuses he gave me in the past.
I found a fantastic painter who did top class work for me and didn't jump the price up or give me any bull**** excuses either about the job and the pricing of it.

Goose81

D3V!L wrote: »

Why all the hatred for the motorcycle paint shop ? Is it that bad ?

Ger Conlon did some work on one of my bikes and it came back looking factory. Couldn't fault it.

I was gona get my bike done by him but did a search on biker.ie and there was multiple lads saying they had to get him to respray their stuff again after they weren't happy with it.

The way I see it is there are alot more cars being repaired than bikes and that's why I went with a car place, cheaper and probably a better job.

Although your man steff SD designs is supposed to be class he charges accordingly.

jim salter

OP, did you get this done in the end? If so where did you go and was the job any good?

Thinking of geting a full respray (White to Black)