Front Upper Fairing

[summerb37]

Hi,


I put a Scorpio alarm into my bike a few days ago & as I was putting my bike back together, and a friend decided to help. Anyway, she scratched up the black part of my upper fairing when trying to insert the inner fairing panel. My bike is less than a month old and is a brand new 2008 FZ6, and needless to say I'm pretty upset about it. My friend said she would buy a new fairing and replace it, and I quickly priced it out, and it will cost her more than $600, which I don't feel good about. I will take some pictures and post them, but does anyone have suggestions about what is a good way of fixing scratches, so they are not seen and so that they don't devalue my bike? The worst scratch is deep enought that I can feel it with my finger nail, but the others are more like scratches that only removed the paint. I was thinking that having the fairing professionally painted would be the only option.

Thanks

 

[abraxas]

Dude, don't let it bug you.

The only way to avoid that is to remove the tank before fitting the fairing. then seating the tank.

Try polish it out, it will fade over time.

peace

 

[DownrangeFuture]

Scratches just show that you use the bike. And short of repainting it, no not really. If the white is showing through, then you can try one of those scratch repair kits, but the colors never match excatly, and they don't always fade at the same rate as the rest of the paint. To top it off, the really good kits are basically just a kit to do a small spot repainting.

So, if it's not in the white, then polish it out. Like he said. Otherwise a body shop or a replacement are about your only options, unless you happen to be a professional auto painter... but you probably wouldn't be asking this question if you were.

 

[Wildcat_drvr]

ColorRite paint sells a paint pen that matches Yamaha colors. You could fill the scratches and then sand/polish the excess paint off and then apply some clear-coat over it. I know they are not cheap, but you could buy a lot of paint for $600.00! :rockon: Good luck fixing your bike up. Rich, PS: A few scratches just add character. (I know how you feel, my bike, while in my pole-barn, fell against a 1954 Sears table-saw , probably made from recycled WWII armor from a battleship, and put a huge dent and scratches in the tank!) http://www.colorrite.com/