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Cost me $35 per can in New Zealand…it s acrylic and was made up at an Auto parts shop called Supercheap (very popular in NZ and Australia) gives a nice finish if you prep well don’t rush…NDS or New Dust…Silver is listed in their database under Yamaha colours…

Your paint job looks great in the pictures. You should write a how to on doing a budget, rattle can paint job for the forum letting us know what type of products you use and steps taken

 

[davfuzzell]

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[Shuriken]

I'm not familiar with a 2002 "Silver Dust Edition". I thought 1999-2002 were the carbon fiber dark grey color with aluminum wheels and chrome exhaust. The 1997 was silver with black wheels and black exhaust.

Yes, sorry, I'm new to the 2002 and the color scheme. You are correct. I was wondering how they got the carbon fiber dark gray look.

I was looking for seat fabric online and realized that there are some pretty inexpensive ways to do decals and wraps to get that kind of look. I don't know how vinyl or other decals hold up under an urethane clear coating, though.

 

[MaxMidnight]

Yes, sorry, I'm new to the 2002 and the color scheme. You are correct. I was wondering how they got the carbon fiber dark gray look.

Post #4 explains the process.

I was looking for seat fabric online and realized that there are some pretty inexpensive ways to do decals and wraps to get that kind of look. I don't know how vinyl or other decals hold up under an urethane clear coating, though.

I had a belly pan decal wrapped and whilst it looked OK in MO it wasn't a patch on what I subsequently has hydro dipped. It lacked the gloss and depth that the lacquer coat gives.

Also attached full list of paint codes and colours.

 

[Shuriken]

That effect is applied by hydo dipping which then transfers whatever is on the decal onto the part. The effect can be altered by changing the colour of the base coat. a clear coat is then applied. Not that this process is different from a vinyl wrap.
This is how I got the carbon effect on my bike.
If the damage is confined to the clear coat then you may be able to flat that back and then re-finish. The risk is that you go through and also take off the carbon effect. If that happens you are no worse off.
An alternative would be to seek out replacement carbon effect parts.

Learned a ton from this video link. Outstanding, thank you. I would love to do this at some point. I think for now, it will have to be a primer/base/clear type paint process with what I have on hand.