Painting tips and recommendations please

[Throttled]

I would like to change the silver parts on my bike to matt black, so the bash plate, pillion peg support, exhaust shield, back brake pedal on this side and the gear on the other and just out of view on the other side, the side stand.

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Using a magnet I know the bash plate, side stand and pillion peg support are aluminium and the other parts steel.

Please recommend some paints to do the various jobs. I think the exhaust shield would need something different from the bash plate.

[polecat]

I can not recommend any brands but for the alli use a self etch primer on aluminium sanded with 1500 grit

it is quiet thin looking paint (sometimes green)

when its dry the undercoat will adhere to the primer which in turn grips the base metal

then just paint as normal.

Steel use a zinc primer then undercoat

Stainless use do not use zinc primer as it can attack the stainless,make abrasions in the stainless by hand sanding then coat in a two pack epoxy or polyurethane primer suitable for stainless steel then Undercoat

Plasitics you can use a Plastic base coat on fresh plastic or lightly sand and streight to undercoat.

Once all the surfaces are undercoated you can go streight to your top coat of Matt black (or satin ) and when dry overlay in a matt or semi matt clear coat for protection