Are tanks worth repairing?

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

I'm being told I have 2 quarter size dents in my tank. Am I better off having the tank repaired, or is the price of bodywork offset the price of a new tank? Anybody know where to find a new K9 tank?

 

[Mr. Wright]

Post a picture of how bad they are, I can probably fix them for you,

 

[aspen874]

there's one solution from Shannon, you might call Derick or Donna at Bigdogpartsking and see if they have a new one.

 

[Jwooky]

If your painting it's nothing to fix two dents.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

If your painting it's nothing to fix two dents.

I figure either way I'm going to have to paint. Is painless dent removal an option on a tank?

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

Post a picture of how bad they are, I can probably fix them for you,

I'm still a couple days away from being able to walk out there and really look at her. I'm just kind of going by the pics I already have & what my daughter tells me.

 

[Mr. Wright]

The crash lay you up that bad? Thought you were ok.

 

[Sven]

Live with the patina, love the patina. Paint will never match the [alleged ] fade of the other painted parts.

 

[Jwooky]

I figure either way I'm going to have to paint. Is painless dent removal an option on a tank?

Think you meant paintless.

Doesn't make sense if you are painting.

Don't sweat dents if you are painting anyway. That is 99.999999% of the cost.

Filling a couple small dents is pretty much normal prep.

 

[francoblay1]

Are these dents worse than this ones?

I got the dents repainted for 100 Euros and you can NOT notice any difference

See this Thread:

http://www.bigdogbiker.com/threads/big-dent-on-the-paint-help.41548/#post-514681

 

[francoblay1]

After:

(and we didn't know the paint code... he just made it match)

 

[Mr. Wright]

I don't have a before picture, but just to the rear of the fuel bung, between there and the stripe was a dent 1 1/2'' in dia and almost 3/16'' deep.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

The crash lay you up that bad? Thought you were ok.

I've got bad knees. And unfortunately when the bike went down, it landed on my right fioot (which caused major swelling) and the weight of my body went down on my left knee. So I didn't have a good leg. But it gets better every day. Of course if I'd have gone to the Emergency room I'd probably have gotten meter melds to get rid of the swelling, but, the cost just wasn't justifiable considering that nothing was broken.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

I don't have a before picture, but just to the rear of the fuel bung, between there and the stripe was a dent 1 1/2'' in dia and almost 3/16'' deep.

Nice. We'll have to talk after I can evaluate it. If it's just the tank then I'm thinking of fixing it. If either of the fenders are damaged, then I'm leaning toward a full tear down & color change.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

After:

(and we didn't know the paint code... he just made it match)

Looks really good.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

Think you meant paintless.

Doesn't make sense if you are painting.

Don't sweat dents if you are painting anyway. That is 99.999999% of the cost.

Filling a couple small dents is pretty much normal prep.

Yup, paintless. Damn autocorrect. If I can get around painting, then I can put that money elsewhere. At that point I'd make this bike my rider, and find a deal on another bike to customize. However if I have to do much in th line of paint, then I'll customize this one & buy a rider.

 

[Nཛ͢ཀཇཧ༏ཧי]

Bad news for me. Daughter was trying to keep my spirits up by downplaying the damage.

 

[chubs]

Bad news for me. Daughter was trying to keep my spirits up by downplaying the damage. View attachment 27785

Repair it . It seems weird to click "like" on some of these things. should be a "Aw man that's too bad" button.

 

[Mr. Wright]

No problem. I may even be able to recreate, or save the paint job you have on it. Or we can paint it pink if you want.

 

[francoblay1]

Yup!!!! Shannon is DA MAN!!!!