| Author | Message | ||
     Smokey3644 |
Is the orange color on the two tone low seat paint? Is there a way to return it to all black color? I've got one coming and since my bike is blue don't really want an orange seat. It took me a while to find one and figured I better jump on this one even though it isn't black. Any help appreciated. | ||
| Growl |
Not paint, cover with sheepskin? | ||
| Andymnelson |
You could attempt to dye it black. Or take it to an upholstery shop- shouldn't be too much $$ to recover it. Heck, you could go with a matching blue then! | ||
| Hughlysses |
Yea, they make spray dye for vinyl upholstery. You could try that, and if it doesn't look good, then take it to an upholstery shop. I bought a used seat from Ft_bstrd to use for "experiments". The previous owner apparently spray-painted the orange rear of this seat with black paint. That does NOT work. | ||
| Crusty |
take it to an upholstery shop- shouldn't be too much $$ to recover it. Heck, you could go with a matching blue then! That's what I did. A local Upholsterer matched the racing red of my XT. I think it came out well.  | ||
| Andymnelson |
That looks great Crusty! I should take mine in to match my black plastics....oh wait... | ||
| Ronmold |
Andy, you know of any good upholstery shops around the metro area? | ||
| Andymnelson |
I've heard good things about Premier Upholstery, but mostly from the custom car world: premieruph.com I need some leather repair done on my van, and I got GLOWING reviews from Main Motors about the guy that they use in Andover...but I can't remember the name! I spoke with the guy a few months back, and he basically does custom and repair work (he will remove my leather seat, and replace the worn panel with a new one)- I think that some motorcycle seat work will be right up his alley. I need to get my van repaired soon, I'll call my dealer back and ask them who it was and post back here. | ||
| Andymnelson |
Yellow Dog Upholstery is the guy in Anoka. I'll hopefully be having my leather seat in my van repaired by him soon, I'll let you know how that goes. www.yellowdogupholstery.com | ||
| Union_man |
(Message edited by union_man on March 01, 2011) | ||
| Andymnelson |
I just googled TMI, and it linked me to that post ^^^ | ||
| Smokey3644 |
Thanks for the suggestions. I like the idea of matching the bike color, we have a couple of old boys here in town that do all kinds of upholstery, they fixed a doggy mishap in my truck and did a great job. | ||
| Maximum |
Yes you can dye the seat.  Get this stuff from you local auto paint store.  In the end it works great...and only costs about $15.  It is scrubbable and will not peal off...but it may need to be touched up once a year (at least the red does). That said...I would have it reupholstered if I found a local place that did nice work. | ||
| Smokey3644 |
A friend of mine has a body shop and he thinks there is a flexible acrylic paint that was used to paint bumper (cushioned) panels that might work. Might be worth a try, if that fails could go the re-cover route. | ||
| Jasonb |
Not sure if it's too late, but I have an all black low I'll trade you for your orange and black low seat. Let me know if you're interested | ||
| Etennuly |
NAPA stores have Mar-Hide in spray cans that is an actual dye for vinyl and leather. Good product. It's color soaks into the material being colored. | ||
| Etennuly |
Gotta like those properly colored red bikes, but.....ORANGE ones are faster!  | ||
| Smokey3644 |
Jason it is too late would probably have take you up on it. The rear of the seat is now the color of the bike thanks to a local upholstery guy. |
