Seat Paint

Anyone tried this to paint their seat? From the Youtube videos i saw and the reviews on this stuff it seems like it would work. Your thoughts?

I'll try it if you can tell me where I can buy it.

Home Depot? Lowes? Tru Value?

I have the stock 2008 blue/black seat collecting dust.

If I can dye/paint the blue part into a black I'd be happy.

I saw it at Advanced Auto Parts and Pepboys. I would imagine any auto parts store that carries paint would have it.

Cool. Will look for it this coming weekend.

Did mine last summer still looks great did three coats

aeh80 wrote:

Did mine last summer still looks great did three coats

With that paint above? Did you notice any stiffness after or is it pretty flexible? Any close up pics after you painted and pics after a few months of use?

I bought some today. Pep Boys. $6.99





Cleaned seat. Painting will commence tomorrow.

Pictures and thoughts will follow.

motokid wrote:

I bought some today. Pep Boys. $6.99

Cleaned seat. Painting will commence tomorrow.

Pictures and thoughts will follow.

That's great Motokid. I didn't know that paint was available in hot pink.

The textured part of the stock Yamaha seat is a wonderfully easy thing to paint. You'd have to be very ham-fingered to end up with drips while spray painting the seat,

The flat hot pink paint I bought covers completely the first coat. Dries very quickly. Completely matches the hot pink Yamaha used on the center panel.

I've done three coats of hot pink in a little over an hour and now I'll let it sit for 24 hours before any "testing" of the product takes place.


So far I'd say it's one of the easiest things one could customize with spray paint on our bikes.

I highly recommend the flat hot pink, but I can't imagine the other colors offered would not be just as good.

I can see selling my spiral step seat in the near future.

Did you mask off the center hot pink then paint the sides pink to match? Or did you spray the whole seat hot pink?

That looks great. Post up after you thrash it. Curious to see how it holds up before I buy my own can of hot pink.

Daamud wrote:

Did you mask off the center hot pink then paint the sides pink to match? Or did you spray the whole seat hot pink?

I did not spray the center portion of the seat. I did not spray the entire seat.

I'll leave it to you to guess if I masked off anything or not.

Just Bob wrote:

That looks great. Post up after you thrash it. Curious to see how it holds up before I buy my own can of hot pink.

There will be plenty of pictures to follow.

Especially if anything starts to crack or flake or bleed.

Good thing is, there's more than enough paint left in can to paint a dozen more times at least.

So the only issue I might hate is if the paint bleeds off seat onto my clothing, or onto my white body panels.

First week with painted seat.

100 degrees one day. Upper 90's a few more. Sat in parking lot all day for three really hot days in the sun while at work. Got rained on once, and today I washed the shit out of and off my bike and the seat looks spectacular.

motokid wrote:

First week with painted seat.

100 degrees one day. Upper 90's a few more. Sat in parking lot all day for three really hot days in the sun while at work. Got rained on once, and today I washed the shit out of and off my bike and the seat looks spectacular.

That looks factory!

motokid wrote:

I bought some today. Pep Boys. $6.99





Cleaned seat. Painting will commence tomorrow.

Pictures and thoughts will follow.

Let me guess.....
White?
What's left to make that bike of yours all white? Tires?
Maybe one day they will make whit tires for ya HaHa.

Tomahawk Superbike tires was making colored street tires a few years ago. They didn't sell well so i think they dropped them.

just so happens I have a can of this sitting in my garage.. this will be tomorrows job :P