Big Risk in getting Paint Job from away from Home shops ... - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

DannyT · 02-22-2007, 03:42 PM

I'm building a custom bike on a Rolling Thunder Frame. I live in Maryland. Having seen many paint jobs from Airea5150 Inc. I decided to send my sheetmetal there to get a single flames paint job similar to one on their website. I also sent them a picture of how I wanted the flames painted ... the inner part of the flames a golden yellow fading outwards to a darker shades of orange. What the owner Scott did was a fade from front to back instead of from inside to outside. When he sent me pictures, I pointed out that that was not what I had asked for. He proceeded to blame me for his screw up and would not repaint the set unless I paid him also for the new paint job. That would have been $2,400 dollars times two.

I have sent my set to get repainted to what I wanted to begin with to a shop that painted a previous set on another bike that I had. In hindsight, I should have sent it to Larry McCollough to begin with and not to Airea5150. I was forced to pay for a paint job I did not ask for in order to get my sheet metal back.

Beware of doing business with a paint shop far away from home. I will never do it again.

If interested, I can email anyone pictures of what I asked for and what I got. The guy Scott is a jerk.

BTW, he would not let me post my comments on his website.