Just my experience here, not really anything against VMR:
Please remember before ordering a VMR paint kit that many of the components EXPIRE once you break the seals; pretty much within two weeks. This is because they ship the hardeners in plastic tubes--they do wrap these tubes in sealed plastic so that you have to break the seal. I can't remember what the problem was, but I had to break the seal in order to use the primer hardener, but that also caused the separate clear coat hardener to start expiring (which I wasn't planning on doing the bodywork AND painting within a 2 week period). If they were sealed separately, then maybe it was because I couldn't read which one was which, so I opened them both. I brought in my paint kit in just before the expiration date when I got the bodywork done, and my paint shop (which is a VERY high-end shop) decided to not use it, so I basically wasted money, about $180 down the drain. I did manage to use the entirety of the primer that was provided (but had to get a little bit more) and that was it.
The paint shop had a look at the VMR paint, and decided that it was DuPont stuff. They mentioned that it is not as good as their PPG paint, but still "professional class". They matched what VMR mixed up, and they used a very high-end PPG system to do my bike. The paint work on my bike COULDN'T be better with their PPG system.
I called VMR a few times along the process and asked about what exact model paint model that they used since I ran out of primer, paint codes so the body shop could match what they had (they had to manually do it because VMR didn't have the info), and about the problem with the expiration.
Not a bad experience, but it just didn't work for me. Costed me more money to go this route. If you go with VMR, just remember:
1) Order more than you think.
2) Remember that the stuff starts expiring once you break the seals VMR should make sure that the hardeners are sealed separately. It would be nice if they could also list the paint system up front, because it would be nice if you ran out of one thing then you could go get what they used and continue. If the hardeners ARE already sealed separately, then they should make it very clear and obvious that they will expire once opened.
They were very prompt and easy to get ahold of, and their paint is professional, but it's just the idea of ordering a "kit" made it a hassle for me.
