Kawasaki ER-5 Frame colour match

carlnicholson... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Karma :

I just bought a 52 reg ER-5, not by choice may I add, more through circumstance, but thats a story for another day!

It is a bit tatty TBH, and I feel the need to give the old girl a bit of TLC. The frame is a graphite grey colour, but a section that was scuffed in a slide has been painted black, is there anywhere I could get a match for the grey from to make it look a bit prettier?

Any advice greatfully received as ever. Thumbs Up

Also I'm thinking of whipping the engine bars off, but a couple of the attachments look impossible to get at, anyone got any experience?

Karma

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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Ring or Email kawasaki UK and you'll get the frame colour off them, then get an autopaint company to match it off the code.

davidimurray · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Karma :

Grey ?? I thought all ER5s had black frames as standard?

carlnicholson... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Karma :

I thought it was black aswell, but it's a rarther nice graphite colour. The patch the last owner painted black just looks awful.

I thought of autopaint, but expected they needed to take a sample of the paint to match, I'm damded if I'm taking a section of the frame out to take in to the shop!!!

I searched the web for kawasaki colour codes to no avail, but thought it a waste of time anyway, as the frame is almost certainly powder coated, and therefore a paint code may not even exist??

Probably easier to give kwak uk a ring at some point and see what they say then.

Anyone any experience of the engine bars? Free to anyone who can help with removing them!!!
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davidimurray · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Karma :

Try these guys -

https://www.motorbikepaint.co.uk/

they can match any paint by code for you. If you find out the colour for the frame let us know as mine could do with a touch up as well!

djneu-trix · Spanner Monkey Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Karma :

same colour as the 1 the garage is lending me because they broke my gsxr!
Evil or Very Mad

normally it says in the manual what the colour code is! sometimes theres stickers on the frame with the code on it! only other way is to go to a kawak dealer or ring them just to get the code!

cheers
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Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

I'm not sure if the bikes colour code will give you the frame colour, I think that generally refers to the bodywork. Like I said Kawasaki will know.

I'm pretty certain the frame isn't powdercoated, but even if it was it still conforms to the same paint codes as spraypaint. I wanted to paint my VFR in Foggy Petronas green so I emailed FP1 UK and they gave me the Pantone code, I then got Autopaint St Helens to make me up cans using that paint code, was an exact match as you'd expect.

carlnicholson... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Karma :

Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

close enough for me to consider on my bike.

I took the bar that unbolts out the frame in to halfords and went through the colour charts they had.

If the bike is road legal, take it down and do similar yourself matching it up
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ZRX61 · Victor Meldrew Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Karma :

The patch thats shiny is probably from a rattlecan so it will wipe right off with a rag & some laquer thinner. It won't hurt whatever the hell kawasaki use on their frames.

Any decent auto paint shop will have a spectrometer thingie to computer match the colour & generate the paint formula to match.

If ya near Southampton my step bro could do that & put it in rattlecans for ya...