There's a new TLS don't you know...

**98tls** · 2nd November 2007, 23:53

Just as an afterthought,i have a left hand side upper fairing in the garage that has done the rounds of some of the supposed best painters around,in the end i gave up and bought a new one from japan......later on when i bought the undertray and found that place in the uk i got a local guy to paint the undertray and its identical to the factory stuff.As you can see in profile pic.

**Reckless** · 3rd November 2007, 07:38

Got a reply from Bike-paint their records don't go back that far. Also tried Kawasaki NZ, couple of mates, oldKawa man, Z power and google searchs. So looks like its an eye match job. I'm told the colour varied quite a bit from the factory anyway on the early Z'ds. Probably just the Z900's though every Z1R I've seen looks the same to me.
Oh Well thanks for your suggestions!

**scumdog** · 3rd November 2007, 07:43

Originally Posted by Reckless

Got a reply from Bike-paint their records don't go back that far. Also tried Kawasaki NZ, couple of mates, oldKawa man, Z power and google searchs. So looks like its an eye match job. I'm told the colour varied quite a bit from the factory anyway on the early Z'ds. Probably just the Z900's though every Z1R I've seen looks the same to me.
Oh Well thanks for your suggestions!

Ask around.
I was getting my Thunderbird touched up, it's metalic blue and not the easiest to get a good match.

Anyway, my mate who owns the paint shop came up with a dude who had a digital camera and laptop, he took photos, hooked the images to the laptop and went off back to town.
The computer told him the formula to get a perfect match and he shipped the paint to my mate who then touched-up the the car.

Touch up was perfect

- (and I'm fussy.)