Harley Davidson 883 Sportsline

[Optimus Prime]

So after lots of practice, on my own bike, I got asked to do first officially paid detail on a Harley Davidson 883 Sportline based on the success I have had on my own bike, so thought I would give it ago although had no ideal how bad the bikes condition was actually going to be, until it arrived!!!

1st Problem, checkers packet stuck and melted onto chrome exhaust, left for three or four weeks to reheat and cool multiple times

2nd the bike was very dirty, the chrome dull, the aluminium faded and lacking luster, and the bike was full of swirls, spider webs, scratches and some stuff I don't think theirs even detailing terms for lol

Anyway cracked on, here are a few of the before shots I took, and of course the end result, please note this was a complete hand polish, wax and swirl removal process as I don't have a DA yet, but hoping to have one soon...

Pipe Before:

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...BECC34.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...BECC34.jpg

Pipe After


http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...7AE57C.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...D2454B.jpg

Bike before:

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...156A60.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...A9B8C9.jpg

Bike After

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...6A8B8A.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...41F505.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...D59B39.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...B55761.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...30250F.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a569...229D2B.jpg

[Optimus Prime]

Not one comment in like two weeks, is their any life on here???

[springbok]

Just spotted this now.
Impressive for a hand polish. Lovely deep wet shine.
Well done!! What products did you use?

[kripstoe]

How did you get the plastic off?

Nice reflection!

[Optimus Prime]

Thanks guys, I used mainly meguirs products

Harley's don't come with plastics Kripstoe just a lot of chrome, real back killer

Again thanks for the feedback

[Optimus Prime]

@kripstoe reference plastic off exhaust

I used Black & Decker heat gun used for removing paint, I heated small areas at a time until the plastic started to bubble, the took a damp Microfibre cloth and wiped the heated plastic in a single direction and repeated until it was all off, took me a couple of hours but no damage to the chrome at all, once the pipe was cool I used nevr-dull and buffed the pipes up.

Hope that helps?

I also read up that oven cleaner would do the job, but was a tad scared to try Harley Screaming Egale performance pipes are not cheap and was not worth the risk, took the slowly slowly approach, customer said he would have paid me R650 just for sorting the pipe out lol not and for first paid detail thou, he was very chuffed with the complete end result that was the most rewarding part of it all

[kripstoe]

Cool, answers my question. When's the next bike detail writeup?

[Optimus Prime]

@Kripstoe

I need to get my name out their with the biking faternity, i had thought about chatting to a few of the bike shops but not sure the best approach, I guess I have to some marketing

[devzo]

Impressive Results for a hand polish!Well done bud!