spandex munkey wrote:Thanks Durka. Just how unidentical are the Imageworks stickers? Is the quality good? I've had a look at their website & they do look good, but it's hard to tell from a photo.
Well there was a post somewhere on here about my dissapointment but I cant find it now, must have been in the General section and deleted. So I will basically tell you how it worked out for me. This is not a rant just info on the kit I bought. It may well be that all the other kits they sell are spot on, I dont know. Maybe Im just being picky but I expected the design to be right, you decide.
Like you I looked at the website and thought the bikes look great, there was lots of valuable info on fitting the kits, which are a bit bigger than your average decals you see on bikes so asked them about the urban tiger kit in purple/red, no problem they said, so I asked for a several samples of the purples they do as I wanted it to match my tank, this took several weeks and a couple of phone calls but eventually one sample came, luckily it looked about right although they did state it would not be metallic like the original decals, which I accepted. So ordered the kit.
I waited a few weeks eventually the kit arrives and I am overwhelmed the quality is brilliant, the best vinyl I have seen and the decals look the part but then I start to look closer and realised they were not what I would call pattern, ok your not going to get everything spot on I know, but when someone says they can make up a replacement sticker you expect some accuracy and they did say they were scanned from originals, imagine buying just one mid section on their word only finding out that its no where near matching, not good. I tried for a couple of months and many phone calls to get the problems put right but lots of promises (usually next Monday) nothing ever happened, I was slighlty dissapointed with them. Sad thing is if they had took note and corrected my concerns I would be happy and they would have a had a much more accurate product which I could be telling you and others about. After my earlier post on this site I did get an email and an apoligy saying they would send out replacements and if they did not fit, they would try again, sadly they sent only the nose flashes which fit on the vertical but still to short on the horizontal. I told them this but to date never heard anything again.
Ok so what were the problems, the main problem was accuracy, for me first and most annoying was the nose fairing flashes these were to high on the vertical and not long enough on the horizontal, I tried for ages dry fitting but could not find a happy medium.
Then there was the mid section, these were uncut and looked more like the bike on the front of the Haynes manual which is not OEM. I had to recut most of this to get a better look, perversley I actually enjoyed this and spent all night tracing from a photo of a CBR on my laptop then transfering and cutting the proper shapes where I could, although through my wobbly scalpel work sometimes I got it wrong but it is a better look than if I had just laid the supplied graphics down, I think.
There were a few other small niggles, Fireblade stickers at 10cm, I worked them out that they should be around 24cm, so ordered some off ebay. The RR colours on the rear was opposite to what they should have been making the white R look unfinished and finally the small HONDA logo on the nose was white so had to order a red one off ebay also the rear stickers were not as accurate in shape as to what they should have been but I can live with that, I thought.
So basically for the Urban Tiger design from imageworks, Top quality printed Vinyl, not very good accuracy and very bad customer relations. Im sure if your not bothered about accuracy you will love your decals and remember you could be paying Honda maybe more than £700 for the decals.
As a picture is worth a thousand words apparently, here is a piccy, view the raw image and you can zoom in further.
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dave
