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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | I am sooooo bummed. I ordered the new tribal black/silver skins for my brand new Street Premium, we even financed it into my loan. My dealer called me yesterday that the company who was manufacturing them for Vic has gone out of business. This leaves me with $2000
added to my loan plus interest on an item that victory cannot get. In the small print at the end of the email that notified my dealership (very small print), it said "Victory is working on a solution to this problem". Word is, they had so many requests for them, that they were originally on lenghtly backorder. Ok, explain to me huge demand for something you make.... puts you out of business..... guess thats the result of poor planning or bad business management.
Will see, still hoping for the best, but realistically expecting less.
oh yeah, this goes for ALL THE SKINS for 2009 |
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Iron Butt
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Reno County, KS | Guess it's a good thing they didn't make them in SSG or I'd be finding out the same thing. Taking the body panels off is not that difficult. You might get better results by taking them off and sending them out to paint. For $2000 I would think that you could have a real good custom painter come up with something truely unique. |
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Tourer
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Buffalo Grove,Ill | Id get back to the dealer and make them make a few payments for you or fork over your 2k plus the interest it has cost you to date. |
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Visionary
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Pittsburgh, PA | for $2000 could you get that air brushed, and at least it would be REAL paint and not just stickers? |
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Cruiser
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Illinois | Arkainzeye - 2008-10-20 2:37 PM
for $2000 could you get that air brushed, and at least it would be REAL paint and not just stickers?
I agree. You could also have more of a 1 off by going this route. |
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Tourer
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Centennial, CO | Sheez...for 2k, you can probably repaint the entire bike with thicker paint and clear as well as have some good air brushing.
Stickers aren't bad until you scrape them with you book or something (accidently of course).
Oh...and I agree...make the dealer pay you back with interest! That is not cool...but in fairness, they didn't know either. But it is NOT your dime that you should lose. Victory should have had a better handle on it. |
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Iron Butt
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North Orange County CA | Really it should be 2k plus the interest on that 2k over the life of the loan. Not just what you have paid to date - you will continue to pay that interest for the next x number of years.
Your dealer should have no objection if he's a straight up guy, its math. |
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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | Message from the original poster. MYSELF. I currently own a limited skin on my 07 Kingpin Tour. These skins are NOT "stickers".
Not sure where you guys are getting your information. If I can locate my video of the technique I will post it up here for everyone to
watch. Im in the business, I should know. So far, the decision between myself and the dealer is to sit idle for a reasonable time and allow Victory to come up with an alternative, otherwise they have no problem doing the money thing. Will keep ya posted. |
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Tourer
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Centennial, CO | VaParadox - 2008-10-20 5:45 PM
Message from the original poster. MYSELF. I currently own a limited skin on my 07 Kingpin Tour. These skins are NOT "stickers".
Not sure where you guys are getting your information. If I can locate my video of the technique I will post it up here for everyone to
watch. Im in the business, I should know. So far, the decision between myself and the dealer is to sit idle for a reasonable time and allow Victory to come up with an alternative, otherwise they have no problem doing the money thing. Will keep ya posted.
I guess I interpreted your message as a Ness type add-on but a different form of graphics. Clearly, since I am not in the business I would not have known that.
to be honest, I have been around motorcycles for 35 plus years and never have heard of the term "skin" unless it referred to a sticker in which you place on the bike to give it a different look from a "graphic" stand-point. But again, I am NOT in the business...so what do I know??! |
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Cruiser
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Maine | here we go again! I ordered the Cherry/gold skins. to here that the paint jobs have fallen through remines me of the Chrome fork dissapointment. I love the performance of my Vision. I wish Victory would offer the same performance. Come on Victory! Stand by your product and find another painter. |
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Tourer
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San Antonio, TX United States | Thats ok ElroyJ, we all learn new things no matter how old we get. I have heard the term skins used in this context and as a reference to the "Tins" or the more common term for the covering on an airplane. |
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Cruiser
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| dwhite would it still be a "tin" on a plastic bike it lets the mind wonder |
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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | I too think the term "skins" is misleading, but its the term my dealer and apparantly Vic uses.
When you do one of their custom skins, what happens is that you are actually replacing the
entire outter panel on the bike. In the case of the Vision, the main frontside fairing panels are replaced as well as the outter panels on the side bags. This is probably the reason for the $$ cost.
In the past, when an owner purchased a set of "skins" you were given a 500.00 credit back from Victory when your original skins were returned. For 09 that discontinued that, so you end up with
a full set of replacement panels. The paint job is done on the panels at the paint shop, then the panels are sent to you for self tradeout or your dealer to install. Like my Kingpin, the graphics are painted on the panel, then the entire artwork is sealed. You can feel the difference if you compare lets say a pin striping on a vehicle, and a custom paint job on the bike panels.
Lets just hope that the terms dont get any more techincally inaccurate. I would hate to have to refer to the front fairing skins as fore skins.....
enjoy the day, ride with pride.
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Iron Butt
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| Maybe something like this: 
or this  or this  |
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Cruiser
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Monrovia, Ca | Tim, where were the first 2 pictures taken? |
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Iron Butt
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| The 1st 2 were taken at Arlen Ness Victory in Las Vegas, NV. I wonder how well the paint will adhere to the tins over time ???
The 3rd was taken at Cycle Dragon in Cerretos, CA.
Edited by TimS 2008-10-21 11:57 AM
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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | The midnight Cherry photo is awesome. Gives me an idea what my bike will look like once i go pick up all the chrome trim pieces this weekend. the other two..... all i can say is 'Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder" |
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FYI new 2009 skins NOT AVAILABLE
