Paint help! This will make you go hmm.
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How do you check Vin# with Harley Davidson. Title says 1995 Heritage Softail Classic. The bike was a demo the owner of our local dealer had. I was told by his son the tins were bought from Harley. How or why I can't remember. This bike has gone thru 6 of my family members since it was bought by my uncle. Non have painted it, non wrecked it, I would really like to know more about this color, and the intent if other then a tester for the 96 that I was told about. And yes them are 5.2 gallon tanks.
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You can go to the HD site and under "Owners" click on "Owners Manual" it will ask for a VIN ... you can enter it there ... you may need to create an account to do this ... if you have trouble with this PM me your vin and I will check it for you
as for the Blue Pinstripe ... I have a 1996 in Mystique Green and found where the sun hit the tins the pinstripe changed from green to blue over the years ... if I check under the tank or lower on the front fender the stripe is still green ... this may be what has happened to yours ...
as for the Blue Pinstripe ... I have a 1996 in Mystique Green and found where the sun hit the tins the pinstripe changed from green to blue over the years ... if I check under the tank or lower on the front fender the stripe is still green ... this may be what has happened to yours ...
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How do you check Vin# with Harley Davidson. Title says 1995 Heritage Softail Classic. The bike was a demo the owner of our local dealer had. I was told by his son the tins were bought from Harley. How or why I can't remember. This bike has gone thru 6 of my family members since it was bought by my uncle. Non have painted it, non wrecked it, I would really like to know more about this color, and the intent if other then a tester for the 96 that I was told about. And yes them are 5.2 gallon tanks.
Maybe they did in fact order the bigger tanks from Harley, before it was ever sold, so it would have the larger capacity tank "option" and had them sent out to be painted to match the bike... If it doesn't have a paint code sticker under the tank from Harley, it's a very good chance it wasn't painted by Harley, which would explain why the paint peeled. Mine is 16 years old and still has the sticker under the tank, has had lots of gas spilled on it even seeped out once and knock on wood, hasn't peeled at all (mine doesn't have a hard paint line in the filler neck of the tank though, where it looks like yours does, which is the reason the paint peeled BTW). Two things stand out to me that makes me think it was not painted by Harley. One thing I keep looking at is that logo/emblem. It doesn't look 100% genuine Harley to me although I can't pin point why for some reason it just doesn't look right to me, which makes me think it was not painted by Harley. I've seen that emblem style on quite a few bikes before, good friend had a 95 Fatboy not long ago with the same emblem, that bike is long gone now and I can't compare it but something about it just looks "different" from what I can remember. The second thing is that the steel appears to have been blasted before paint. Maybe Harley does that for paint prep??? but I sort of have my doubts about them doing it that way and it doesn't appear to have been sanded before paint, which also makes me think it was painted by an outside source. Any good paint and body shop can match it for you though. Good luck with it regardless. It's a good looking bike!
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Beautiful bike! I'm partial to the green bikes myself. And Harley was kind a funny about their green bikes and blue pin stripes. They used that combination alot. Mine is suede green with blue and grey pin stripes. Most are green with blue and black pin stripes.
Maybe they did in fact order the bigger tanks from Harley, before it was ever sold, so it would have the larger capacity tank "option" and had them sent out to be painted to match the bike... If it doesn't have a paint code sticker under the tank from Harley, it's a very good chance it wasn't painted by Harley, which would explain why the paint peeled. Mine is 16 years old and still has the sticker under the tank, has had lots of gas spilled on it even seeped out once and knock on wood, hasn't peeled at all (mine doesn't have a hard paint line in the filler neck of the tank though, where it looks like yours does, which is the reason the paint peeled BTW). Two things stand out to me that makes me think it was not painted by Harley. One thing I keep looking at is that logo/emblem. It doesn't look 100% genuine Harley to me although I can't pin point why for some reason it just doesn't look right to me, which makes me think it was not painted by Harley. I've seen that emblem style on quite a few bikes before, good friend had a 95 Fatboy not long ago with the same emblem, that bike is long gone now and I can't compare it but something about it just looks "different" from what I can remember. The second thing is that the steel appears to have been blasted before paint. Maybe Harley does that for paint prep??? but I sort of have my doubts about them doing it that way and it doesn't appear to have been sanded before paint, which also makes me think it was painted by an outside source. Any good paint and body shop can match it for you though. Good luck with it regardless. It's a good looking bike!
Maybe they did in fact order the bigger tanks from Harley, before it was ever sold, so it would have the larger capacity tank "option" and had them sent out to be painted to match the bike... If it doesn't have a paint code sticker under the tank from Harley, it's a very good chance it wasn't painted by Harley, which would explain why the paint peeled. Mine is 16 years old and still has the sticker under the tank, has had lots of gas spilled on it even seeped out once and knock on wood, hasn't peeled at all (mine doesn't have a hard paint line in the filler neck of the tank though, where it looks like yours does, which is the reason the paint peeled BTW). Two things stand out to me that makes me think it was not painted by Harley. One thing I keep looking at is that logo/emblem. It doesn't look 100% genuine Harley to me although I can't pin point why for some reason it just doesn't look right to me, which makes me think it was not painted by Harley. I've seen that emblem style on quite a few bikes before, good friend had a 95 Fatboy not long ago with the same emblem, that bike is long gone now and I can't compare it but something about it just looks "different" from what I can remember. The second thing is that the steel appears to have been blasted before paint. Maybe Harley does that for paint prep??? but I sort of have my doubts about them doing it that way and it doesn't appear to have been sanded before paint, which also makes me think it was painted by an outside source. Any good paint and body shop can match it for you though. Good luck with it regardless. It's a good looking bike!
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