2000 Suzuki-Motorcycle Touch Up Paint (3 OEM Colors)

The 2000 Suzuki-Motorcycle Vibe

The year 2000 was a "High-Tech" fever dream. We were all terrified the computers were going to crash at midnight, but Suzuki was busy dropping the legendary Hayabusa and making sure every GSX-R looked like it just rolled out of a secret aerospace lab. The millennium aesthetic was all about the "Industrial-Cool" look-lots of hard edges and enough metallic flake to blind a guy. We've focused our attention on the survivors of that era, the colors that actually defined the millennium: Oort Grey Metallic, Shadow Black, and Sonic Silver. If you weren't riding something that looked like it was forged from a solid block of liquid metal, you weren't really there.

Paint Health Check

Welcome to The Peeling Era. By 2000, Suzuki was leaning hard into multi-stage clear coat systems to get that deep, "wet-look" shine. It looks incredible when it's fresh, but here's the rub: those early-2000s clear coats can be as temperamental as a carb-tuned Gixxer on a cold morning. The bond between the base color and the clear layer is prone to "delamination." You'll see it first on the edges of the fairings or near the fuel cap-it starts as a tiny white cloud or a flaky edge, and once the clear coat decides it's tired of hanging onto the bike, it'll peel away like a bad sunburn.

Restoration Tip

If you've still got your original factory clear, your number one job is to seal every chip immediately. In this era of paint, a stone chip isn't just a cosmetic blemish; it's an entry point for moisture to get under the clear coat and start lifting it. Once that "delamination" starts, you can't buff it out-no amount of polishing will fix a layer that's physically detached. Keep a touch-up pen handy and bridge those gaps as soon as they happen. If you're respraying a panel, don't be shy with the clear-building a slightly thicker bridge over those high-wear fairing edges will give you the protection the factory robot skipped.