Painting plaistic

[Hphunk]

Anyone ever taken a colored hood and paint it a different color ? Will the paint stay on or is there procedure that has to be taken for it to work ? I was thinking maybe using Krylon paint it is made for painting plastic. Any thoughts or comments.

[Fuzzy]

unless you know how to paint plastic properly, dont do it. i tried it and the paint chipped. i said f it, i took to eatrl schieb, 230 and they did a good job, not the best. they didnt clear coat it, which i thnk they should of. i dune ride all the time and the paint has not scrapped off... till i did some trail riding. only time it chipped was when was bombared by rocks, and only got 3 chips, but from the there the pant came off.

[EPL]

I had a body shop for a long time never found anything that works good if it is going to get flexed much.

[johnnycat8]

seems few have had good luck most dont i did a old quad and it held up great then tried another one and gave up paint wouldnt flow good at all.

[582RDB]

I had my plastics painted one time and will never do it again . If you do anything but play in the sand it doesn't hold up to flexing if you rub against anything .

[Furkay]

I tried it once and didn't work out well .

[Jolly John]

I have asked around about getting mine painted and was told by many that it wasn't going to hold up out on the trails.

[Yellow Toy]

I had mine painted and so far it is doing ok . I haven't had it out on the trails yet .

[Ruckzuck]

I have seen many people that had there plastic painted and it looked great but they only went in the sand.

[LBR]

I've seen several guys color and black out their machines by painting the plastics with bedliner. When it gets scraped off, they just touch it up.

[Maverick4me]

Anyone ever taken a colored hood and paint it a different color ? Will the paint stay on or is there procedure that has to be taken for it to work ? I was thinking maybe using Krylon paint it is made for painting plastic. Any thoughts or comments.
The key is preparation. Also having a flex additive in your paint. Here are a couple helpful links:

http://www.urethanesupply.com/atvpainting.php

http://www.wmbarr.com/bulldog/bulldog_proj_2.aspx