I am looking for some advice here:

I have a 2015 Street Glide Special - Charcoal Pearl that is currently stock other than slip ons and pouches behind the windshield.

Tonight I picked up used engine covers (outer primary,, cam cover, side transmission cover, and top transmission cover) and plan to have them powder coated. My question is should I powder coat them wrinkle black, gloss black or matte black?

The second part of this equation is that I also plan to powder coat the forks, turn signals, passenger back rest, crash bars etc.

My gut feeling is to powdercoat the engine parts wrinkle black and everything else gloss black.

What do you guys think?

 

I would do gloss black. I am sure the wrinkle will be hard to keep clean. The gloss makes a nice contrast against the flat black.

 

Hit the wrinkle with Pigspit, same as the motor. Mix it up. Highlight the parts you want highlighted with gloss, matte and wrinkle the rest. Make it yours, go crazy, add a little orange and green.

 

I think it is a personal choice.

I am doing matte on mine, for personal reasons.

 

Any issues with water spotting on the matte when you get caught with a hot bike in the rain?

 

I went with wrinkle, you can see it in my gallery. I am doing a mixture of all 3. Certain parts will be wrinkle, others gloss, and eventually the heat shields and cans matte.

And wrinkle is super easy to keep clean, no extra steps after washing.

 

Pigspit is the miracle cleaner for wrinkle black. I had a 2013 Dyna Street Bob with the Wrinkle Black motor and used Pigspit all the time!

Thanks for the advice!

So I am guessing you are for Wrinkle on the engine covers and gloss or matte on the other parts?

 

Thank you! After seeing the picture of your engine it reminded me why I love the wrinkle black. I am definately going wrinkle black on the engine.

Now I have to figure out which parts to leave chrome and which parts to go gloss or matte on.

 

I'm for mixing it up. Use the contracting textures like chrome. I want to hear from people that have gone matte. I seem to end up doing a lot of riding in the rain and I'm curious how it holds up to water spots. Without being able to buff it, you run out of options pretty quickly.

 

It's not flat, it's matte... kind of eggshell.

But no, I haven't done anything "hot"... my mufflers and heatshields are PC'd black, but that's how I ordered them from RUSH, no issues.