Helmet paint repair

[journeyman]

On my trip to the UP I purchased a brand new HJC CL-15 full face helmet at Pat's in Greenland. It fit great and worked perfect, except for one thing. When I was driving my sled into my buddies enclosed trailer on the second day, I scuffed it on the top when I bumped my head on the top of his door header as I entered the trailer. My question is, does anyone know of anybody that does custom painting that can repair something like this? the paint is flat base too. I live in the Mpls area.

thanks

 

[nate007]

I can probably do something with it, but you can try a local body shop as well..

 

[terret725]

just get a yamaha sticker and plop it right on the baby. easiet and cheepest solution.

 

[journeyman]

I can probably do something with it, but you can try a local body shop as well..

I tried touching it up myself a couple different ways, but it's kind of hard to match the tint of the flat white.

 

[nate007]

Most good sbody shops have imaging equipment that they can basically "photo" match the color, and it will display the proper mixing ratio for the color code.
One other idea may to send it back to the manufacturer. I broke my modular helmet, adn sent it back to HJC, and they replaced the chin bar, the shield, and inspected it for about 65 bucks.

 

[4jwv]

Learn to put your head down, when entering an enclosed trailer, or you will do it again. Good thing those marks are not on your head! Take it to a body shop. :exc:

 

[rapeape]

It is good luck to scratch a new helmet. I've heard of guys that will drop a brand new helmet for the good Mojo. Leave it as it is...

 

[ApexerER]

It will probably cost as much to have it painted as it will to buy a new helmet. I would just deal with it. It sucks because it is brand new. I did the same thing when I put my sled in my trailer this year. The Apex sits up a lot higher then my old sled. Good thing I was wearing a helmet. I would have knocked myself out.

 

[journeyman]

Learn to put your head down, when entering an enclosed trailer, or you will do it again. Good thing those marks are not on your head! Take it to a body shop. :exc:

I thought of that too. The one thing is, if I didn't have the helmet on I think my periphial vision would have seen the upper door jam and I probably would have ducked..........but then again I might of had a baseball cap on too. Then it would have been

 

[bashley]

Not trying to be a smart a$$, but I'd go for something like Krylon. It'll probly be cheaper to buy a new helmet than have someone do a custom repair job. At least it would up here.
I was looking at having my side vents painted, with me doing all the prep work, and I couldn't get them shot for less than $200. So I got a spray can of that plastic primer then shot silver metallic over that and cleared. I couldn't tell you how many people have asked me where I got aluminum side vents.
It may not be the most professional way, but it looks good, was cheap, and made me happy.

 

[journeyman]

I tried Krylon flat white. It had more of a cream colored tint. This flat white is more like pure white. I also tried a couple craft paints with craft brushes, but that looked terrible, so I sanded it back off. I'll keep looking for something better I guess.

 

[ridesrx]

Man, I'm a painter, and I wouldn't mess with it for those marks. I suspect, and I don't know this for sure, those graphics are cleared in with a matte clear. If you just spot in the white, you will have a tape line around the edge. And that would look like crap, and feel like crap. So anybody that wants to do it the right way will want to take the helmet apart, fuzz in the white, and re-clear the rest of the helmet with a matte clear. Matching the color isn't a big problem, but a spectrophotometer(color reader) won't work because the helmet is too round to get a good reading from it. You will get light leakage into the reading. I don't know what you paid for the helmet, but I bet you could buy another one for what a shop will want to repair this one.

 

[Cody]

Thats why you buy the fox pro tracer non scratch helmet! but to repair that i think you have to send it in.