Looking for Kawi Paint codes
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have to match paint on a 1999 Vulcan 800 classic
Metallic Dark Bronze
Candy Cardinal RedBeen searching through my color max chips and having a hard time finding something thats right. the red looks really close to brandywine candy over solar gold(hok chips)
If anyone has any paint codes for these colors from any paint brand let me know
Thanksyou’ll find that many of the motorcycle colors are actual true dye based candies like hok. they are usually over a similar or lighter version of the candy color though so they can get away with less coats. colors like this you wont find anything close in your colormax chips. you would find something closer in a carizzma book. the candy red has a paint code of 665C. the bronze has no code and finding motorcycle colors in smarttrack is like finding a needle in a haystack. most have no code, no year and just a generic name. they are just a formula sitting there basically useless to everyone. the bronze, assuming its just a metallic, you are going to have to find the closest colormax formula and tweak it from there. the colors are available from color-rite but if you have never used it their matches suck and so does the paint. your better off doing it by eye.
thanks jim. I had gotten the code of off color rite for the red. I have access to ppg color online so i put searched there with no avail. I found a chip for the red thats close but being a candy the chip isnt dark enough when the lights not on it and its not bright enough when the light does shine.
the bronze is really a black with some gold and red pearls. that shouldnt be too hard to make.
since there isnt anything that directly butts up against the tank I can probably get away with the chips I found but will likely tweek them to match a little betterding, you can tweak that red a little. by making the base color darker you will make the candy look darker when the lights are off of it. by putting less coats of candy you will make it lighter or brighter when the lights are on it. i can almost guarantee that kawi didn’t put a gold down under the candy. it was probably more like a metallic magenta or something like that. with the base color in the same family as the candy they can get away with only one or two coats of candy over it and still get the red they want. candies from the bike companies usually look good but dont have the depth of one you or i would do because of it. if you have a carizzma book look up a color called light crimson, its code 309. you can plug that code into smarttrack. you’ll probably have to mess with the matallics in it but its probably a good place to start anyway. alot of time if you look at the bace of one of the factory pieces you can sometimes see what the base color is. there might be a spot where the candy didn’t cover….or you can sand and feather some of the oem paint out and look at the layers that way.
looks like the base was a silver with a little red tint in it to make it pink. scary thing is the base color is right on top of the bare metal :blink:
yup a metallic pink/magenta. the crimson code i gave you should be in the ballpark. you can lighten or darken from there. i have seen from the factory color put right on top of metal before. its really no big deal. i’ve never seen it flaking or peeling so it must just be some type of one step stuff to cut cost. let me know how it goes!!
“or you can sand and feather some of the oem paint out and look at the layers that way.”
great tip jim … do it all the time but no one’s brought it up here before 😉
matching bike paint sucks :angry:
[b]Stone wrote:[/b]
[quotematching bike paint sucks :angry:[/quote]
man your tellin me.
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