This has not been my week. On Thursday morning, I was taking my daughter's swim suit to her school (which she forgot), and while trying to overtake a motorbike with a sidecar (selling of all things motorbike helmets (he was, of course, not wearing one)) doing 20 km/hr he turns right to enter a factory parking lot without looking and with no signal of any kind. Luckily, I was able to turn with him and avoid hitting him. Then, yesterday, I was headed to Sukumvit on a soi near Makro, when an old guy in a beat up pickup truck on a cross street pulls out right in front of me. I slowed but could not stop and I hit him in the passenger side door.  He wasn't waiting for the police to come, and it was obvious that he had no driver's licence or insurance. Luckily, I wasn't hurt and only the front of my bike was damaged. Hopefully, it is only broken plastic parts, and the front fork is not bent -- it drives straight and does not pull left or right. Pattaya is becoming/has become an incredibly dangerous place to drive, especially a motorbike. Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced shop that repairs/paints motorbike body panels? Custom paint work would be an added plus. If this continues, I will be a regular customer. Thanks.

This is the place to go to for scooter parts.

Thanks. I think I have been to that shop for a part for my gf's Click several years ago. It is a parts shop, yes? I need a shop that repairs/paints the plastic panels. Does this shop do that? From what I recall, it doesn't look like it does.  

1 hour ago, Thailaw said:

Thanks. I think I have been to that shop for a part for my gf's Click several years ago. It is a parts shop, yes? I need a shop that repairs/paints the plastic panels. Does this shop do that? From what I recall, it doesn't look like it does.  

 

It is mainly a parts shop. They do some work but not paint from what I have seen. I think it is easier and not too expensive to replace plastic scooter parts rather than repair in many cases. A original rear view mirror I bought for a scooter was only a little more than 100 baht. Maybe body panels are expensive but I would check the price for a new before I tried to have the panel repaired.

 

You have another parts store here, they seem to charge a little more, at least for the parts I was looking for.

The big scooter shop ,corner of 3 rd road and South Pattaya road .They have a big show room ,and a service area /repair ,around the back .(they may be called Milton ?) .Scooter panels are cheap and average B800 ,depending on size .They will just replace the broken/damaged Panels . 

I think Mityon has outsourced all repairs to the service center on south road.

Thanks. I expect that you are right, and that replacing the broken/scratched panels (there are 4, one quite large) may be the best option. But only 1 is cracked (the largest one) and the others are just scratched. Light sanding, and painting should be pretty quick, easy and should be cheap. I will check with the Mityon service center this week about replacing the damaged panels. Still hoping to get the name/location of a shop that can fix rather than replace the damaged panels, if for nothing more than comparison of price. Thanks again.

Mai Thai comes to mind. They do all kinds of paint jobs. Known to be more expensive than average. 

 

 

Thanks. I am familiar with Mai Thai. I could probably replace the whole bike for less than I would pay Mai Thai to repair/paint it. You are being very polite when you say "more expensive than average". More expensive than everyone is, I think, more accurate -- not my first (or even my last) choice.

>> Light sanding, and painting should be pretty quick, easy and should be cheap.  <<

 

I could be wrong ,but thats not possible with plastic panels ,as far as i know .What they can do  easily is replace the transfer color parts .

Edited September 19, 20169 yr by anto