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Not the easy job on any bike, whichever one you ride.
Riders send us tanks and fenders, not panels, and a tank is not the easy job on any bike. Harley tanks are thicker metal that resists moving. Sport bike tanks are thinner and move more readily, which punishes any overshoot. Thicker is not harder and thinner is not easier. They are different repairs asking for a different approach, and most are with us 1 to 3 days.
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Riders send us tanks and fenders, not panels, and a tank is not the easy job on any bike. Harley tanks are thicker metal that resists moving. Sport bike tanks are thinner and move more readily, which punishes any overshoot. Thicker is not harder and thinner is not easier. They are different repairs asking for a different approach, and most are with us 1 to 3 days.
One panel, two moments, a short time apart. No filler went on it, nothing was sanded back and no paint was sprayed. What you slide across is the finish the car was built with. This one was corrected at our Bellevue shop, the same paintless dent repair we bring to Seattle and across the Eastside.
Sport bike, cruiser and Harley tanks, each one worked from the inside with the paint left alone.
Green sport bike tank
Blue and white tank, dent at the stripe
Harley-Davidson tank, off the bike
A Harley tank resists the move and takes more force to shift. A sport bike tank shifts readily and leaves almost no margin, so an overshoot shows immediately. Two different approaches, and neither one is the shorter job.
A Harley tank almost always comes off first because there is no reaching underneath it. A sport bike tank can usually be worked with the tank still on the bike. That changes the setup and the clock, not which repair is easier.
It curves in two directions at once and reflects everything around it, so the light has to be moved constantly to find the low point. That is also why tanks are the hardest thing on this site to photograph usefully.
Chrome, candy, heavy flake and hand-painted work behave differently from factory paint and some of it will not take being worked. We tell you which yours is before anything is touched, not after.
Not a testimonial slider we wrote ourselves. That is the live score on the Google Business Profile, and the link below goes straight to it so you can read all 263.
Absolutely great experience. The people are friendly and so helpful. They also did an amazing job. This dent showed up after someone hit my parked car and it had been bugging me for months but now you would not even be able to tell it was ever there. They were fast, accommodating and diligent.
The team provided a fast and reasonable quote for the work I wanted to get done. On the day of the appointment, they greeted me kindly and gave me a timeframe for the job. The final result turned out great and the small dent is now gone.
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Often yes. Paintless repair reshapes the metal from behind, so a factory finish stays on the tank. What decides it is the finish and the access, not the badge on the bike.
Neither is harder, they are different. A Harley tank is thicker metal that resists the move and needs more force. A sport bike tank is thinner and shifts readily, which leaves almost no margin for an overshoot. Different approach, different hands.
A Harley tank almost always does, because there is no reaching behind it in place. A sport bike tank can usually be worked on the bike. That is about access rather than difficulty, and it changes the setup time rather than the outcome.
Usually 1 to 3 days. It is slower than a car panel because a tank is curved in two directions, reflects everything, and often has to come off and go back on.
Usually, and access is the question again. A front fender is often open enough to reach behind. A rear fender with bodywork or a fixed liner behind it can mean glue pulling from the outside instead.
One straight on, one at an angle, one close, plus the year, make and model. A real answer within the hour during business hours, including when the answer is that paintless repair is the wrong method.