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Smokey3644
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 11:12 am: |
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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
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 12:20 pm: |
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Not paint, cover with sheepskin? |
Andymnelson
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 12:36 pm: |
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You could attempt to dye it black. Or take it to an upholstery shop- shouldn't be too much $$ to recover it. Heck, you could go with a matching blue then! |
Hughlysses
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 01:29 pm: |
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Yea, they make spray dye for vinyl upholstery. You could try that, and if it doesn't look good, then take it to an upholstery shop. I bought a used seat from Ft_bstrd to use for "experiments". The previous owner apparently spray-painted the orange rear of this seat with black paint. That does NOT work. |
Crusty
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 01:44 pm: |
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take it to an upholstery shop- shouldn't be too much $$ 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.
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Andymnelson
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 02:02 pm: |
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That looks great Crusty! I should take mine in to match my black plastics....oh wait... |
Ronmold
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 04:13 pm: |
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Andy, you know of any good upholstery shops around the metro area? |
Andymnelson
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 07:43 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 10:48 am: |
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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
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 11:57 am: |
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(Message edited by union_man on March 01, 2011) |
Andymnelson
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 01:09 pm: |
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I just googled TMI, and it linked me to that post ^^^ |
Smokey3644
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 01:51 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 02:14 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 03:16 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 08:42 am: |
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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
| Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 02:25 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 02:35 pm: |
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Gotta like those properly colored red bikes, but.....ORANGE ones are faster!
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Smokey3644
| Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 02:53 pm: |
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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. |