Phayao Paint Shop

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VIP Auto Garage a crash repairs / paint shop

The biggest & best paint shop in Phayao, & the north?
Wanting to get my V-strom 2017 V-strom tarted up , with the black painted yellow.

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I couldn't find a shop in Chiang Rai that said yes, they could paint the plastic.
No we / you can't paint that plastic, it doesn't work?
Duh, I thought. I also had the same response to stickering it too. No you can't sticker that plastic; so I gave up in Chiang Rai & was about to head off to Chiang Mai & get it all done, when Dave DKT suggested I try his local paint shop in Phayao.
Jackpot.

VIP Auto Garage is the shop & it is massive - over 100 staff
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They have 30 staff in the paint section.
But they don't paint motorbikes. Take your bike in & they won't do it. You have to take the pieces you want painted off & deliver them. Then they will paint them.

And that's where Tokico Motorsport comes in handy. Use them to strip your bike down & take the parts off for painting.

The happy guys at VIP Auto slaving away on the old GTR fellah's V-strom plastic.

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Parts prepped, ready for a coat of lemon yellah.
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The colour to be matched
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Getting the right colour - it was a group decision, but involved a spectrometer.

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A double check on the computer
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Some of the good stuff
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Nippon 2K was paint used.

Completed parts
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Standard black colour, before painting.
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And what a difference, a bike you can clearly see & now recognize as the GTR V-strom.

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For the record: 7000 baht for the paint job. Highly recommended.


You need time, but Phayao is a super place to hang out for a week.
500 baht a night for a room 150 metres off the lake @ Ratchawong Place
300 metres from the Saengchan Pub & Restaurant

Use Tokico Motorsports to wash, service & detail your bike, while you wait.

It is a winner all round.
 
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That is an impressive looking paint shop :cool:





Speaking of paint shops, my missus lent our Toyota pick-up to her cousin last year, of course he damaged the lhs of the pickup on a concrete post, not his fault apparently my missus says, the car to big for his soi.....................................you can imagine my response, if its too fooking big you dont go down there, not go until you fooking hit something :mad:..................................................anyway we take it to get repaired in Chiang Rai Toyota through our insurance, pick up the car a week later and im inspecting the work and im not happy with the colour match, my missus looks and says its ok, no not ok, we have a pearl white and they matched using just plain white, very noticeable, of course the missus tells the lady at reception that falang not happy, so they have to get the foreman from the paint shop to come and inspect ;)


Im getting ready for an argument with the foreman, he walks over and I point out the differences in colour matching, his response was this work no good, we do again 100% :eek: .................you could of knocked me over with a feather, he agreed with me ;).....................we had to leave the car for another for another few days and then it was perfect :cool:
 
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That is an impressive looking paint shop :cool:





Speaking of paint shops, my missus lent our Toyota pick-up to her cousin last year, of course he damaged the lhs of the pickup on a concrete post, not his fault apparently my missus says, the car to big for his soi.....................................you can imagine my response, if its too fooking big you dont go down there, not go until you fooking hit something :mad:..................................................anyway we take it to get repaired in Chiang Rai Toyota through our insurance, pick up the car a week later and im inspecting the work and im not happy with the colour match, my missus looks and says its ok, no not ok, we have a pearl white and they matched using just plain white, very noticeable, of course the missus tells the lady at reception that falang not happy, so they have to get the foreman from the paint shop to come and inspect ;)


Im getting ready for an argument with the foreman, he walks over and I point out the differences in colour matching, his response was this work no good, we do again 100% :eek: .................you could of knocked me over with a feather, he agreed with me ;).....................we had to leave the car for another for another few days and then it was perfect :cool:
So many times I see vehicles with Mismatched Paint jobs, different colours totally. Bloody Disgraceful! Just lack of care or pride in their work!