sharky Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Hi Guys, I've heard about wrinkling paint on the motor, but my "V11 sport 2003 Rosso" has flaking paint on the driving Box (cardan). Suddenly after 2300 kms large pieces of paint are gone. Does anybody has the same experience? And what do you suggest to doo? I have no more guarantee I think, because I didn't buy the bike at an official dealer. Mayby I can strip the paint totally, and have it painted in a colour which fits the bike. Sharky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard100t Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Wow! thats really bad. I cant believe we're having so much trouble with that paint. I'm thinking maybe you should just strip the old paint off & repaint it. Once the paint flakes like that theres no stopping it. Like I posted earlier if anyone knows what paint most closely matches the original, please let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Minnaert Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 what you can see is that youre loosing it at the edges, the backside isn't painted, so corrosion goes behind the paint from there. The good news: stripping the paint is easy, strong paintstripper will do. The wrinckle paint is a bad idea back there, all dirt goes into it. So you can leave it blank alu, paint it gray, or flat black again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Heh, mine CAME NEW like that, touched-up from the factory in those places Yeah, we've seen several of the bevel boxes on ~2002 "fuzzy paint" models flake off as well, some worse than yours. So far though, most of the paint failures are on the engine block itself. What's interesting is that the failures of the paint on the engine(heat related, bubbling) and other locations like the bevel(contamination intrusion, flaking) seem to be from different causes, and slightly different results. I can only assume that in general, Guzzi got a bad batch of paint with the "fuzzy" finish al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callison Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Heh, mine CAME NEW like that, touched-up from the factory in those places Yeah, we've seen several of the bevel boxes on ~2002 "fuzzy paint" models flake off as well, some worse than yours. So far though, most of the paint failures are on the engine block itself. What's interesting is that the failures of the paint on the engine(heat related, bubbling) and other locations like the bevel(contamination intrusion, flaking) seem to be from different causes, and slightly different results. I can only assume that in general, Guzzi got a bad batch of paint with the "fuzzy" finish al 52504[/snapback] More likely, MG did a poor job of surface treating in preparation for paint job. Every Guzzi I have has some flaking somewhere. The Sport 1100i's were notorious for the paint on the rim peeling off. Maybe it's just because the bikes are largely hand built and the handprints are still on the pieces on the way into the paint booth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossoandy Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Hi Guys, I've heard about wrinkling paint on the motor, but my "V11 sport 2003 Rosso" has flaking paint on the driving Box (cardan). Suddenly after 2300 kms large pieces of paint are gone. Does anybody has the same experience? And what do you suggest to doo? I have no more guarantee I think, because I didn't buy the bike at an official dealer. Mayby I can strip the paint totally, and have it painted in a colour which fits the bike. Sharky 52426[/snapback] HI,exactly same on my 02 Roso. I stripped beval box off bike . Paintsripped all old off.Sprayed etch primer then used a engine heat resistant satin matt black paint Results fine but of course lost thefactory crinkle... Off to the TT in couple of days and when return will start thinking of tackling engine paint which looks terible now...... But hey,,its a Guzzi an I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txrider Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 More likely, MG did a poor job of surface treating in preparation for paint job. Every Guzzi I have has some flaking somewhere. The Sport 1100i's were notorious for the paint on the rim peeling off. Maybe it's just because the bikes are largely hand built and the handprints are still on the pieces on the way into the paint booth... 52521[/snapback] Sounds likely. Handprints and other soils, compressor oil in the air lines, operators not following process guidelines, there's any number of variables that apparently got out of control in the paint department. There's a term, "intercoat adhesion" which denotes coat adhesion to substrate and between coats which apparently is very weak or non-existent on those engine cases, wheels, rear drives, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Well, at least our frames aren't breaking in half! 2005 Suzuki GSXR 1000 Frame Failure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tikkanen Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Well, at least our frames aren't breaking in half! 2005 Suzuki GSXR 1000 Frame Failure 52563[/snapback] Ouch! Sure glad that the old Gooser has a steel frame. Holy smoke....... Søren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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