Scooter painting

[catadavidv]

Does anyone recommend something that can be used to paint the whole scooter? I used high heat paint for the exhaust, no idea if that can hold on the panels over the current paint and an approximate amount that I need to buy?

[pinkscoot]

Here is a thread from Tsimi 49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/10805/preparation-painting-scooter Some of the people that replied had good luck.

Here is a nice project Lobarrett did 49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/16780/build-project-frame-parts-painting

and here is eclark who paints for sea-doo and has several really good pain threads 49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/18439/toadette-taotao

I'm still a rattle can painter that spends way too much time painting. I am starting to look at naked scoots as the way to go.

[lostforawhile]

The Krylon fusion is pretty good on the plastics, and is designed to stand up to UV light

[pinkscoot]

I've used Krylon Fusion on a couple of scoots and it's pretty good.

[\\-olf]

I repainted my 2012 TaoTao with the corrrect automotive plastic paint and primer but it really didn't hold up, in a few months it started peeling and looking bad.
I think theres a complete plastic body kit I saw for TaoTao at least for about $150 but my experience with this plastic is poor, it gets brittle and real easily cracks very quickly, the sun's UV does a number on this ABS plastic.
I had replacement pieces crack just installing them!
I wish there was a better replacement, maybe a reinforced fiberglass or something is better, but even fiberglass doesnt fair well in UV, neither do those black seats!

[scooter7878]

I painted mine with dupli color metal cast. I had good results it's been on for about 8 months now and the finish still looks good and they got some sweet colors it's like a colored clear coat that looks anodized. There's a base coat silver u spray on anything that's not chrome than the metal cast if done right it looks sick this was first time I used it and it's def harder to use there's some tricks to make it come out good and for my first time it came out good but now that I learned how to spray it next time will be sick. But I even sprayed a exhaust shield with it and 8 months later it still looks good it says it's good to 500 intermittent if u decide to try it message me I'll give u what worked for me

[scooter7878]