Fecking Corrosion

[snoopy]

The paint on my fork brace (1150, 02) has completely come off and the thing is corroding to hell. It looks bloody awful and it's the first thing that'll be noticed if I try selling it.

I bought the bike from Clarks BMW back in September and paid for a BMW warantee. If I put in a claim will they tell me to feck off?

I can not believe how _shite_ the build quality of the 1150 is. Rusted preload and the rear pegs rusted also.

 

[DavidHale]

They all do that sir.


Apparently it looks better if you scrape it all off then give it a coat of hammerite. Allegedly. Once mine looks really REALLY shite I'll do mine.

Can't you just say it's been authenticly rufty-tufty desert adventuring stylee sand-blasted effect?

 

[Fanum]

Now now Mr Hale.....attention to detail puuhlease!!!

Smoothrite sir........not hammerite

 

[DavidHale]

Slight thread hijack... have you ever typed 'smooth' into google and done a UK search?

I found it cos I was looking for a 3D CGI company called 'Smooth' whilst doing a bit of research for my new company... I'll be looking for opinions about it soon, so stay tuned!

 

[snoopy]

So that's a no to it being done under warantee then?

 

[DavidHale]

Don't know, TBH. Best thing is to ring the dealer concerned and ask them directly. I know that some people have had them replaced under the original warranty that comes with a new bike, but I don't know about older bikes.

I still think the rufty-tufty adventure stylee is the best answer...

 

[Steptoe]

So that's a no to it being done under warantee then?

I think the obvious thing to do , would be to ask the dealer concerned

 

[luke scott]

The paint on my fork brace (1150, 02) has completely come off and the thing is corroding to hell. It looks bloody awful and it's the first thing that'll be noticed if I try selling it.

I bought the bike from Clarks BMW back in September and paid for a BMW warantee. If I put in a claim will they tell me to feck off?

I can not believe how _shite_ the build quality of the 1150 is. Rusted preload and the rear pegs rusted also.

Considering you joined the forum a good while ago and you have 370 posts (a reasonable amount of activity) you must have realised that this was going to happen.

 

[darkhorse]

I just rubbed some siver paint in with my finger, and it looked as good as new

 

[Rushy]

Smoothrite

I touched mine up with silver smoothrite and an artist paintbrush at the weekend. Being a lazy bugger I didnt even bother to sand down the corrosion first. It still looks great from anything more than 12 inches away.

I was amazed how good a match the colour was for the BMW silver. Perfick.

I also painted the wheel nuts which looked a bit rusty. They look great !!

 

[stuyvpc]

Similar problems here.

So its smoothrite for the forks then. Anyone have any suggestions for the engine? Mine is well on its way to matching my fork brace. Cheers

 

[snoopy]

Might ring 'em tomorrow. Hope BMW Hertsford are in a good mood.

 

[Shurv]

PJ1 do a mat finish silver engine paint at about £6 a can.Matches the BM paint a treat.

 

[skybluebird]

Mine was replaced under warranty, no problem.

 

[Schwarz Baron]

So that's a no to it being done under warantee then?

I had mine replaced under warranty, no problems.

 

[The_Pilot]

The other choice, although replaced under warranty is the best, is to have it polished, this is offered by Rainbow but I'm sure you could organise it yourself.

 

[Flying banana]

I have had the usual corrosion building up on the brace. The other day, I decided to attack it with some wet and dry to take the corrosion off, as I fuigured it could not look any worse with no paint. The paint is sooooo thin, its no surprise they corrode. It took me precisely three minutes of rubbing down with fine paper to get down to bare alloy. I am gonna take all the paint off, and keep the alloy polished every so often. I am thinking that it will be less of a hassle than having to look at the corrosion, and take the thing completely off and re-paint.

Some years ago, I did the same thing with an old Jap bike on the fork sliders, and looked fine, and was a piece of pee to keep looking fine as well.