Anyone ever paint their plastics? I see plastic super cheap on ebay but just wondering for ***** and giggles if anyone has tried rattle canning their old plastics.

 

the plastic flexes and makes the paint crack

 

Painting them looks like crap. Just buy some ebay cheapos.

 

Yeah. Replaced my plastics a few times. repainted everytime. Just bought a compressor and a spray gun. the paint cost me about $100 bucks from my local auto paint store. it only takes like a quart to paint a bike, then a quart of clear coat.

 

Painted myself last week...... base coat silver, and 5 coats of clear.

 

or you can just rattle can it, but go black if you do.......

 

whats wrong with rattle can.....

 

dad painted me this couple years back....btw its a pocketbike not a regular bike

 

WOW, HAVOK!!!! i dont think i saw that second pic before. hey, did u ever check out the pics of my painted rims? thanks for all ur help some time back, dude.

 

those are some sweet rims. But one thing wrong it fiddy plastics bend a lot more than big bike plastics. So even if it stays nice on your honda it may not work on the fifty. I say if you do enough prep work and buy the good stuff you can do it.

 

nice man looks bad ***..i have to say that color scheme is one of my fav

 

thanks, man. i love my bike. i did a rattle can job using duplicolor, but i want to get a gun and spray better. it looks good but if u pay super close attention, u can find a few uneven spots. i think a gun would help me do a better job. u paint with a gun?

 

yea i just started...laying down colors is cake...but i have yet to try clear...i plan on it in a couple of weeks...

 

i found some great advice on easypaintyourcar.com, especially a small section for painting and repairing plastics. i even ordered his disk for 10 bucks. a good investment, IMO, especially since it's so cheap.

 

Nothings wrong with rattle can on some stuff, just not 50 plastics. If you dont mind the way it looks when the plastic bends go for it.

 

nothing wrong with rattle can bro, your bike looks sick......

 

thanks

 

I sanded with crazy fine paper and painted my 50 with the rattle can paint for plastics and put clear over it then laid down stickers and its been holding up good

 

I have shot my dirt phifty with base and clear. They seem to be holding up nice. I have had it painted for a little over a year now. The prepping to get the paint to stick was a pain to do. Something about the plastics did not want to stick and kept lifting after one coat. I ended up using laquar thinner to heat up the plastics by wiping it down. Then shot the base and it stuck after that. I was thinking about doing the plastics on my stunt phifty. I might just got solid black and paint the frame and powder coat the rims. I drop the bike I dont want to have to sand and spray again.

 

yea if anything I was going to go flat black...