Modern Vespa

I have seen a few scoots with some awesome work. I am interested in doing some "black-out" work to my '09 250 Super. I want to paint the mirrors, passenger footrests, rear grab bar, and bar ends. Can anyone give some advice on what works and what has failed? I am going to get it done professionally when i get the money up.

Any suggestions, within reason, appreciated.


Jason

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Check out Jettin. jettin.com.

We've had some stuff for customers powder coated black. It looks good and its pretty cheap. Stuff like racks and all metal bits are good for it. On mirrors you'd have to take the glass out and you'd have to break other stuff down to metal components only. Bear in mind that the coating tightens tolerances so you may have to do a little filing to get it together again on something like, say, the mirrors and they aren't axactly the easiest thing to get the mirrors in or out of normally.

I'd like to add, powdercoating anything chrome is a no-no...Try instead to find aftermarket black mirrors. I've done TONS of powdercoating and it's wonderful stuff!
Good Luck

They dip, then roughen them before powdercoating. It should be included in the price.

Andrea

A company called I believe Precission located in Dana Point, Ca said they would powder coat any part I brought them from my GTS for $500.00. This includes the rims and exhaust, cowl protectors, springs etc. Basically every part i could find they would do it for a flat fee.

G

Here's the work I had done on my {sniff, sob} FORMER modern, Lenore.
Lenore~ GT200 modifications : GTS seat, gills, powdercoating


I've done all four options on scoot bits:

Home "metal" paint - Designed for application on metal, yet scratched and dinged anyway, even with surface pre-treatment.

Jettin: Powdercoating - Excellent work!! Well worth the price and my trip to LA twice. They will powdercoat anything you can ship them - no need to worry about being local.

Jettin: Wet paint - As Andrea said, the mirrors will need to be wet painted, because the rubber and mirror itself does not come apart from the stem. So Johnny matched the metallic powdercoat I had done and wet painted them to match. Nice work, too!

Local powdercoating - Also a great experience. I have a local powdercoater who does same day work...so long as it is black. : ) He's done racks for me as cheap as $20 and picked it up the next day.

$500!!!! F'ing CRAZY. Please call Johnny or Nyle at Jettin.

Best part about my deal at Jettin - I dropped off the entire bike, they did all the disassembly and reassembly and all the powdercoating for under what you quoted above.

For mirrors get a set of Piaggio Liberty mirrors, identical to the GTS ones but black

I dont think the piaggio liberty exists in the US... I will have to see if my local dealer can get me those mirrors though. Thanks for the tip!

Does anyone know somewhere in San Francisco for powdercoating that's reasonable?

One thing I've found out about powder coating is ........pay a little extra and find a company that does a good job. No dirt or fish eye like things in it!

I've blacked out everything - no chrome at all. check her out!

I have used that Precission guy in Dana Point/San Juan Capistrano for a rush order on one of my scooter I had to complete for a show. Their finish is not the best. But I guess you get what you pay for.