Paint damage - WTF??!?!?!?

[ChopperJeff]

Yesterday after I rolled the bike out of the garage, I noticed this paint damage on the rear fender:

WTF?!?!? :angry:

At first I thought perhaps it's from a pellet gun, but then in looking closer, I noticed several rings of damage the same size as the "holes", as if someone took a hole punch to the fender and didn't make a complete "hole".

Any ideas?

Looks like a trip to the paint shop is in order.

FUCK!!!! :bang:

 

[Bandit]

Battery acid drips?

 

[Oscar Maldonado]

That definately looks like something dripped on you fender. Do you have anything in that area that would've caused that?

 

[chacha]

Yep, something corrosive dripped on the fender. Looks like no cracks in the clear or the paint, so something ate through it. The spot that covers both shades of paint it pretty telling.

Gonna need a complete redo....sorry Dude.

 

[MadMarx]

Looks like BB gun to me.

 

[FatDog]

May want to check with a good painter, I wonder if that is some bad prep work prior to painting finally surfacing. If you look close you can see other spots where the paint is actually starting to let go. I've heard horror stories about our Bigdog bikes being painted at the factory.

I had something similar on my tank last year and I can absolutely say NOTHING dripped on it. Started with small rings like that but I had it repainted at the factory before it got real bad. It took two times but the factory finally got it matched perfect, you cannot tell it was repainted. They did not warranty it but they did work with me on the price.

 

[L.T.]

Yep, something corrosive dripped on the fender. Looks like no cracks in the clear or the paint, so something ate through it. The spot that covers both shades of paint it pretty telling.

Gonna need a complete redo....sorry Dude.

Got to agree,looks like battery acid,brake fluid maybe,hard to tell but some thing corrosive for sure.That sucks

 

[Five Five]

Man thats puzzling....i'll be checking back to see what others have commented....

 

[stryfox]

I am a painter and I would say from the pictures and not actually having it in front of me.
Looks like chemical damage to me.

 

[Little-Boo]

That sucks, I would take the rear fender off and send it to Ed. He re-did mine when the Garage door spring let go and landed on my rear fender. He can make it look new again. :2thumbs:


Carlos

 

[ChoppaNoob]

Has anyone ever had an airbrusher touch up their paint? In particular the lower rock chips at the bottom of the frame.

 

[airbrush-ed]

Yep, we could fix that.

 

[coach]

By the look of the edges of the chips, seems like the result of something hitting the fender.....stones or like someone said a BB gun.

I do have a question to the painters.....I have stone chips on the front of my car and I can't find a local airbrush guy that wants to do touch-up or if it is even possible. The body shops of course want to do the whole front end and charge $600.

Is airbrush even an option in these cases?

 

[Dawgboy]

By the look of the edges of the chips, seems like the result of something hitting the fender.....

That's my take too Coach. Irregular shape of some of the spots doesn't look like a chemical erosion to me. Also, I would expect that if that were the case there would be evidence of an elongated shape on a curved surface. Just sayin.

Have a p-pad? If so, look at the bottom side. See anything that might explain it?

 

[ChopperJeff]

I've never put a pillion pad on the fender. Well, actually, one time I did, but it was only to get my bag home from the dealer about 10 miles away the week after I bought the bike.

In thinking on that note though (IE: some object causing the damage), it have on recent occasions ridden home from work with a light jacket wrapped around my waist. I suppose it's possible a part of it was flailing into the side of the fendor. However, I can't imagine that would cause such uniform size divots.

What's weird is that anything that would cause the divots, such as a BB/pellet/rock, does not exlain the small rings of damage where there are no divots. See that image below for what I mean:

Perhaps minature aliens creating crop cicrles on my bike? :lol:

 

[Pittpup]

You wouldn't get the "rings" if it was a corrosive drip. It's a long stretch, but what about a jacket snap whacking it in the wind? You'd think it'd be scratched up a bit more though.

 

[Gas Man]

My bet is on chemical. Shape is too irregular to be from a hit of something like a bb.

 

[airbrush-ed]

Try this... on the rings where it hasn't completely come off yet, take a piece of masking tape over the ring, and push it down real good. Then rip it off quickly. This sounds horrible and counter-productive, but if it has delaminated (paint has let go) under the ring, it will have to come out anyway. So it would be better to fix all the spots at the same time.
Coach - pay the body shop. Or A shop. $600 seems a little high for just a hood repaint. Unless it's a difficult color maybe... airbrushing (more than likely) will not be able to blend out the color. And I would advise against spot repairs. You can't spot in clear. You have to clear the whole panel.

 

[BDK9]

Hard to tell from the pics, but it seems like some of the chips are towards the side of the fender? That would seem to rule out any chemical damage. Seems like any liquid would run down and cause further but lessening damage to the clear coat etc as it ran down. I'm wondering about your jacket theory. Does it have any round metal snaps on it? Generally a male and female component to the snaps I'm thinking of and this would be the male portion. Lighter impacts could cause the rings while the heavier impacts may have caused the chips. That's my crime scene analysis anyway.... Hope it doesn't cost you too much to get fixed.

 

[cavcom278]

Automatic center punch from the looks of it. just my guess tho...