What is quite literally a lifetime ago I took the bash guard of the KLR650 with the the intention of touching up it's rusty bits and also those of frame tube behind it where the front wheel chucks a load of rocks and muck straight onto them . That was a divorce, a house move, several jobs and quite a few years ago and somehow amongst that it never got finished.
One problem was finding some matching paint. There's no point asking on the internet for a paint code because you get 3 different answers, none of which sound promising and none of which you can actually obtain anywhere. So, I took a rare sunny day off and drove down to Halfords clutching said bash guard in my mitt for comparative purposes and £6.49 later I was the owner of this:
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| Off-the-Shelf Vauxhall Platinum - Eerily Oriental |
This is a very yellow silver metallic colour which to my utter incredulation is a perfect match for the frame paint on the KLR650.
Here's the bash guard with several blended in repairs on it. It's not a great photo but the match really is excellent.
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| Previously much more brown. |
Also I must congratulate Halfords on upping the quality of their aerosol paint as it now appears to actually contain some pigments and solids and applies well. It's no longer reminiscent of trying to apply spiitty poo to a vertical surface, something which we have all no doubt attempted.
One less job on the list, I'm now wondering how good a match I can get for "Kawasaki Engine Bronze".
