Shades of Blue

[Captain Fin]

:banghead: Took my 2011 Spyder RTS in for the left front fender replacement, from the Key West Conch train incident. Conch Train hit my parked spyder. My spyder is orbital blue. The new fender looks very close to orbital blue but has a slight purple hue and is a shade lighter in color. I have a great dealer and the service manager says he will check into it and get the problem resolved. I guess BRP produced other shades of blue for other spyder models and years.

 

[Bob Denman]

They did change it for 2012... :dontknow:

 

[Captain Fin]

Thanks

They did change it for 2012... :dontknow:

Most likely BRP picked a 2012 for a 2011. I hope they have not run out of the 2011 paint. I do like the deeper blue color on my 2011 than the lighter purple.

 

[Bob Denman]

I do too! :2thumbs:
When I saw the first pics of the 2012 models; I just knew that they had played with the colors...:gaah:

 

[Captain Fin]

Bob got it right!

I do too! :2thumbs:
When I saw the first pics of the 2012 models; I just knew that they had played with the colors...:gaah:

:joke::bowdown: You were correct Bob. I got a call from my dealer yesterday. BRP sent a 2012 fender for my 2011. By the way. The Florida Keys do not get that hot in the summer compared to mainland Florida. We are islands surrounded by the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Miami is normally 5 degrees hotter than Key Largo in the summer, and in the winter the Keys are 5 degrees warmer. We do have mosquitos as big horse flies in the summer.

 

[Bob Denman]

Big mosquitoes? We have a hunting camp in the Adirondacks that grows some decent-sized critters... The bugs come with landing lights! We measure the mosquitoes by the inches... between the eyes!!! :yikes:
They're not the worst even. There are some tough :cus: that we call deerflies; mostly because they can pick up a deer and carry it back to the swamp for the rest of the swarm! :shocked:
I had one on my shoulder once (NO LIE!) and it chewed throug a chamois shirt to try and get to me... After a six round hatchet fight I sent him back to Hades, but I needed a six-pack of hydraulic sandwiches to replace all of the fluids that he drained from me! :gaah:

 

[bruiser]

Know about deer flys. We have 'em down here too. Hydraulic sandwiches are the only treatment for their bite.