OMFG!!!! Almost pissed myself laughing reading that comment. Not only does he not have an opinion on the paint he can't read. So just him "I was talking about WWII dil hole!"

Just for S&G's yesterday I sent an email to HD about the clear coat claim.

Beerfart, S.C. Must be another jarhead.

 

Where the f**k did THAT come from?

 

"Are you sure you won WW2?"

 

Seems to be hit and miss. Original fender was thin enough it would shake quite a bit when started. The paint started to peels away from the metal, like it wasn't prepped correctly. So, i ordered a new one, the fender was quite a bit thicker and so was the paint. And it didn't shake quit as much either due to the thicker metal.

 

Generally all motorcycle builders take the time to apply a finish acceptable to their customers. Keeping down manufacturing repair costs is what motivates Moco to produce a good finish to begin with. Any minuscule differences between bike-makers in paint/clear-coat film thicknesses are due largely to the recommendations of the paint supplier and are incidental to long-term value. Probably most Harley's are stored indoors or covered, at least. To heck w/ bragging rights over the inefficiencies of their finishing process.

Put in its' proper perspective, I'd be much more impressed to see Moco's time focused on abolishing time-bombs like inner primary bearings, pressed-together crankshafts, chain followers..., the all-too-common catastrophic failures waiting to happen.

 

IF only we could get them to make there chrome that thick !

 

Well, I'm pretty impressed with the paint quality on mine. Buffed out several scratches that I was pretty leery about.

 

A couple months ago I stripped my 99 883 XL down. Had to do it with the wire wheel. No brand of paint stripper would cut the clear and base.

Painted it, all looked good, then this morning noticed my brand new paint was peeling off due to gas leaking out the gas cap. Didn't think I overfilled it, but now the paintjob on the gas tank is toasted.......All the way to the metal, again. And it was so damned pretty, too............sniff, sniff.

Just remember, 6mm is 1/4", only 24 mm to an inch...........So 5mm is much to thick, lmao. If there is such a thing, anyway.

RD

 

I've got orange peel on my front fender too. 2010 RKC. AND, the clearcoat may be thick, but its soft. Once, yes, one time, I used paper towel to wipe gas splash from around the spout and I have marks that need buffing out. Disappointed and the dealer will be getting a visit to see it.

 

Nobody keeps those pee shooters, Harley riders prefer 308's 7.62 mm).

If the cc is 5mm thick they must dip the parts in the stuff numerous times. I am pretty sure the AV nerd screwed up the text.