Painting my ATV plastics??

[Spooge]

Next year, I am thinking of spray-painting (hig quality spray paint like duplicolor) my honda recon white or spraying it with duplicolor truck bedliner (I love that stuff)

Has anyone done this? does it chip off easy? crack? is it strong? I think my best bet would be duplicolor bedliner plus that would look badass.

What do you guys/gals think??

[outlander560]

their are a lot of ppl who have line-x their atvs it looks very nice... it wouldn't chip as long as u set ur plastics up correctly for the paint.. the only problem with the line-x or any bedliner is that it is kinda tough to clean wen u get mud on it...but its a good idea to give ur atv a new look

[Spooge]

how much would Line-X or rhinnoliner cost?

[outlander560]

would u do it urself or have someone professionally do it?

[Spooge]

I would do a dupli-color (truck bedliner spray) myself, Ive used it on the racks/brushguard and really like it.

But I would consider having a rhinno-lining or ine-X done professionally if the difference was worth it...

[outlander560]

go with the duplicolor if u really like it and it holds up well i would recommend it..plus it would be a lot cheaper then doin the line-x... ur gunna paint it white right?

[Spooge]

go with the duplicolor if u really like it and it holds up well i would recommend it..plus it would be a lot cheaper then doin the line-x... ur gunna paint it white right?

I was gonna paint it with duplicolor truck bedliner (black) but I kinda like the idea of getting Line-X in white (you can get it in colors )

last choice is regular white paint

[outlander560]

def go line-s u will regret using regular paint.. u can do the linex by urself as long as u prep the plastic correctly

[Spooge]

any idea of cost if i did it myself? is line-x te one that comes in colors?

[Spooge]

Actually, now that Ive looked into it more I would want to do one of two things...

either go all out and do a paint job with the flex additive and clearcoat (Ive found a site online with detailed instructions) or just buy some dupli-color spray-on bedliner.

Im leaning towards the duplicolor since my ATV isnt really nice enough for a nice paint job (al the other flaws would stand out LOL)

The duplicolor would be inexpensive and come out great so long as I properly prepare the plastic....

heres how it looks on bike plastics...

[outlander560]

Line Xed Blue AC scroll down on this link and they have a arctic cat painted blue with line-x it look really nice.. and i like the duplicolor kinda looks like a rhino-lined or line-xed color from the picture

[Spooge]

WOW that a/c looks amazing!! I think I may end up going that route!

White Line-X on the body, black (or just black duplicolor) on the brushguard, racks and some other things like the A-arms, foot pegs and bottom of the frame...

[outlander560]

yea that would look awesome with the white and some black rims maybe u can paint ur rims black with duplicolor good contras... the only thing that may be a problem is that its white on an atv ur REALLY going to see every spec of dirt on it but again it would look really nice

im going back and forth if i should paint my atv with black line-x its a good idea and the stuff is strong

[zeke450]

be carefull painting your plasics, most paint wont stick for long, if it does the first bent will make it come off, I have used a plastic adhesion promoter from an automotive paint supply store before painting.

[Spooge]

If I had a niced quad I'd powdercoat the frame and springs lime green and make the body white.... that would be SAWEEET!

[outlander560]

it looks fine to me...would u powdercoat a nice quad anyway make ur quad look 10times nicer by do all of that work u wont regret it

[Spooge]

Im worried about stripping down my ATV... thats too big of a project!

[outlander560]

u just gotta take off the racks if ur worried about the rivets u can just go to ur dealer for new ones their cheap

[Spooge]

oh, I know how to take the body pannels off. I was talking about stripping down to the frame to powder coat it worying me

[outlander560]

o i didnt know u wanted to do that... wat color?

[Spooge]

I was saying I would love to paint the plastics white Line-X and the frame green

[outlander560]

yea i could see that it would look nice

[Spooge]

like a show quad LOL

[outlander560]

yea the only problem with doing all of this is will u want to ride it and get it dirty? lol i sure wouldnt with the plans u got

[Catharpin]

I like the look. I wonder how the line-x will look with mud on it?

Any idea what the cost is?

[Spooge]

Honestly I think Im just going to do the body with black duplicolor truck bedliner

[outlander560]

a black body with a lime green frame= awesome

[Spooge]

yeah.... do you think lime green racks/brushguard would be too much?

[outlander560]

with or without a frame and no i dont think it would be that bad but prob just keep the body and frame black and paint the racks green that would look good and balanced

[Spooge]

I am 90% sure Im just going to paint the body and racks black (bedliner) and paint the springs lime green and do a bunh of small accents (and maybe even lights) in lime green, also have some lime green RECON decals printed...

but my mind seems to change every other day LOL