So im chaning my body color from silver to black and had a few questions.
Do I sand everythign to bare metal before primer, or can i just rough sand all the silver paint off which leaves a "gray primer" and then clean really well and prime over that?
I want to do this good and not half assed. THanks
Then have a professional who knows what they are doing paint it.
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they are going to paint it, but not for a month or two, so i want to get everything primerd and ready.
More than likely, whatever primer you put on will be wrong. I hate to say it that way, but it's true. I asked a friend of mine if I could ust primer my car myself to save some money at the shop and was told that it all has to be done at once and it might even cost more to paint the car because they'd have to reprimer what I did.
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yes yes yes yes yes i know this
im just talkinga bout protecting from rust and having a decent base for the shop to go off.
thing is it has already been sanded down in places as I shaved the door handles and locks so i need to jus tmake things look "equal" becuase the missus hates having a tri tone car.
Alexis wrote:More than likely, whatever primer you put on will be wrong. I hate to say it that way, but it's true. I asked a friend of mine if I could ust primer my car myself to save some money at the shop and was told that it all has to be done at once and it might even cost more to paint the car because they'd have to reprimer what I did.
Your friend is probably right. Most shops will throw a fit if you primer the car yourself, even if you do as good or better of a job as they would. But I disagree with absolutely having to paint the car right after it's primered. It's best, I'm sure, but sometimes it can't be helped. I'm no paint guru but my old art teacher builds hot rods in his spare time and his Henry J was in primer for who knows how long before he ever got around to painting it, and he drove it around town - in primer - during the entire time he was doing the build. He knew he wouldn't have the car finished for a while so he just put on a coat of sealer over the primer until he got everything else done in order to do the paint. Once he was ready to do the paint he sanded the car down, cleaned everything really well and made sure the surface was dry and ready for color, and viola. Some will say that's the wrong way to go but this car wins awards everywhere he takes it and to me that speaks for itself.
That picture was taken right after he finished the car, some time between '98 when I graduated high school and '00 when I came back home from college. HE did all the work himself including the paint. He goes to the Good Guys Heartland Nationals every year and I can tell you the car looks as good as it did the day he pulled her out of the garage.
ok well lets say you do that ok, and you applied DU PONT, and the shop used let`s say ICI, 2 different materials/ products, and what you applied would have to come back off for the ICI material
bascily iam saying mixing products can be and can get ugly so in your head of saying wow iam gonna save my self money on body and paint, is incorrect
leave the car alone when you have the money let a shop do the work and apply the prodcut of choice
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