Is there a Decal to cover a scuff on a used bike?

[brian10x]

I'm looking at a 2018 F3, and its nearly perfect except except for a scuff on the nose. Is there a decal you know of that will cover this? I can't find anything subtle enough. I just want to cover it up, not create another Mona Lisa.

[bcer960]

Not having an F3 I do not know if they have something for you or not? But check out Wrap my Spyder. He has a lots of wraps for Spyders, possibly something you can use.

https://wrapmyspyder.com/

[brian10x]

Thanks, but I just need a little decal for the space below the badge with the scuff.

[Peter Aawen]

There was a time you could buy a leather 'bra' that covered ALL the front of these things, mainly to stop the bug splatter on the leading edges of the paintwork, but they certainly worked well to cover minor scuff like that too!

No-one but me (& now you ) knows that my 2013 RT Ltd has a fairly deeply gouged blemish about an inch long, 1/2 an inch wide, & close to 1/4 of an inch deep right on the tip of its nose, cutting deeply thru the Pearl White 'paint' & exposing the black tupperware beneath No-one else knows it's there cos it's been covered by a 'bug bra' since a couple of days after some imbecile at the wheel of a Council truck reversed into the front of my Spyder while he was trying to (illegally ) squeeze into the Handicap Car Park space that my Spyder was (legally) parked in! He thought he'd got away with it too, & drove off after getting out and checking the damage (so he certainly knew he'd done it!) but dashcams do come in handy! I dunno if the Council ever made him cough up the $$, but once they saw the dashcam footage they immediately shut up all the fake protestations of innocence on their driver's behalf and because we were without a South Oz CanAm Dealer at the time, they covered the entire cost of getting the bug bra and freighting it air express from the US!

Might be worth looking for something along those lines...

[brian10x]

It might be all for naught. Dealer won't even give me wholesale on my trade. Bastages!

[Bfromla]

Maybe some paint & body shops have some DIY hints hopefully, look minor in pic. Few threads about touch up paints & such too

[javajaws]

A couple of racing stripes should do the job...

[brian10x]

I may do that. I negotiated a pending deal, so the game is on.

[brian10x]

Sometimes the simple solution is the best solution. I think I'll just buy quality 3M black decal material and make a stylish black "patch" over the scuff.

[Gwolf]

Just get a small piece of left-over yellow vinyl from some other job, and cut yourself a giant bug splat out of it, then stick that over the scuff mark.

[cruisinTX]

How about a shadow of Wylie Coyote?

[Peter Aawen]

How about a shadow of Wylie Coyote?

Or you could use the model decal peeled off of an F150, or maybe even better, a 'borrowed' Porsche or Ferrari bonnet emblem??

Still, if you don't feel that you hafta restrict yourself to the old 'tried & proven to work over many years' methods of diverting attention from the blemish, you could always get a Bandaid decal or just stick one of the real things over the middle of said blemish... If you did, then maybe you could add one of those 'ouch!' stickers/transfers too??

I guess it all depends upon whatever takes your fancy, &/or how kitsch you want it to be??

[Pooch]

Google search turned up all kinds and sizes of decals. There was lots of fun stuff to look at from bullet holes to bug splats to Wylie Coyote.. as mentioned earlier.

[chipveres]

Lamonster is probably too classy to toot his own horn, so I'll toot it for him. Under "Universal Accessories" he has decals in 3", 5" and 7".

Chip
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