05-12-2014, 12:18 AM
(05-11-2014, 07:38 AM)Ridem32_imp Wrote: Hey Grover I'm like you very very picky with my bikes! But even to me it don't look to bad. If honda offered to pull my motor and replace the jugs or to paint the jugs I would say no! I would just take a Q tip and dabb the paint on it and not worry about it. All of our bikes will have tiny chips on our motors in due time! But that's just me. If it was the gas tank I would demand a new one. I think with time you will forget about that tiny chip mark. But like I said it can be touched up very easy. Hope that helps some.
Michael
That's pretty much were I was going with my comment about the "cure" being worse than the "disease." Having a dealer tear down an otherwise perfectly good bike/engine to fix a paint issue doesn't make sense to me.
Eventually the engine and other hard-parts are going to develop a patina of some type. Might be paint chips, might be clearcoat fails, could even be surface corrosion on polished parts. You can slow it down, but you'll never stop it. Rust never sleeps.