If you look at the bike, red turn into blue on the next fairing. It's driving me nuts. I have try to see if the decals will come off but i think they have a clear coat over the decals. Not sure what way to go with this issue. I would love to have a white and black bike. any suggestions would be great thx
Hmmm. I think it's under the clear coat. Removing it would be a bigger pain then it maybe worth. I suppose you could remove the tank, strip it down and repaint it. Maybe easier to find a different color replacement fairing?
Speaking as someone who ordered a new rear fender/numberplate mount moulding, in order to drill two holes in it straight to mount my numberplate square, rather than have a butchered panel with elongated holes in it hidden by the plate, I know all about obsessiveness. Even I think you're going a bit far.
However, I do understand. I think though, obtaining a satisfactory level of finish will be impossible to do on a budget. You'll simply swap a colour transition you can't bear for fit and finish you can't either.
I'd look at the other factory colours and see whether any of them were better, then I'd buy new factory panels.
Keep in mind that companies do this. I have also a Kawasaki ZRX. Mine is a 2004 red one but before that I owned a 2002 green one.
The difference between the 2001 and 2002 is this...in 2001 all the stripes matched on the fairing, tank and tail. For 2002 they reversed the stripes on the tank only so they didn't line up with the fairing and tail.
Why???...Nobody knows.
A previous poster also mentioned about repainting quality. It is true, you'd never be happy with it.
EDIT...I just looked at your picture again. Not meaning to set off your OCD any more but since you brought it up, the bottom stripe on your tank should be black if you want them to really match.
What you have there is a 2014 model tank and 2013 model fairings. You can either replace the tank with a 2013 model tank or replace the fairings with a 2014 model set. Cost would be cheaper to replace the tank with a 2013 model tank and sell the old one on eBay, but it would look nicer to replace the fairings with 2014 model fairings. The 2014 scheme for rwb is much better looking IMO. My 2¢.
That pic was from when I got the bike, almost same day. Its come along pretty good, im happy with it so far, check out the updated pic let me know what you think
I know how you feel emontalvo1983. I wanted a white and black bike as well. I ended up removing the fairing decals and putting some white vinyl over the tank decals to save some effort and money. Can't post a pic here however...not chatty enough apparently.
Put a pic in my profile if you're interested to see.
ABS sticker on the front fender, not an ABS model. Aside from that, I like the white. I might suggest wrapping the whole tank to eliminate the two tone effect.
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