So you can't get paint for your Harley from the local body shop supply house. Apparently Harley does not share the mixes with them. The only places I've found are Harley and Colorite that can give you a factory mix and each of them get $135 for a quart of pre-mixed paint.... what that means is your actually getting about 1/2 paint and 1/2 reducer in that quart. I find that disturbing at best.

Fortunately my bike is vivid black so I'm going to take the original fender over to the paint shop and they will "prophet" the color (they have a hand held paint reader to give a mix). The prophet has never given me an exact match without some tinting but on black and the fact it's not up against any existing paint, if it's a shade off you'll never notice it.

By the way, here's the mock up of my tail light on the modified Fat Boy fender for my Low Rider.

Just my 2 cents.
Steve

 

I work for keystone/lkq and we do have several codes of harley paint. There's a local ppg distributor that has more than we do even. But doing the "prophet" system or a camera shot like we do for unknown colors works great. Usually hits the nail on the head for matching even with some three stage paints.

btw DH is a code for vivid black if you have any akzo nobel suppliers in the area (sikkens or lesonal). Just mixed some the other day.

 

99.99999% sure it's straight PPG deltron DMD1683 black toner for vivid black and whatever binder ratio is required. In Nason it's 430-01, Cromax it's 805J. Just straigh high strength black in whatever system you're using.

 

Thanks, went to the paint shop this morning and the scan shows it as just black so I'm going with what supplies I already have in Cromax. My paint guy also was able to look up the codes and apparently 1999 through 2012 vivid black is just that..... 805J or what is labeled as 99K black.

I'm digging the fender, this weekend I'll paint it.
Steve