Primer prior to color

H

Highway

Hi all,

Planning on painting my car, blue metallic. Painted the door once, came out OK, but painting the entiry car in the (small) garage - not a good idea.

I want to prep the entire car, than have it repainted in a booth. The prep I will do during the weekends, thus the car will be unprotected for some time before paint.

I want to:
1 strip the paint where needed
2 spray on epoxy primer
3 fix the dents etc.
4 spray epoxy primer

This I will do for every panel seperately, due to time and location (space) restrictions.
When finished, I'll take the entiry car to the painter for finishing.

I read that you cannot spray color/base over epoxy primer if you let it harden fully. Won't stick. That will be a problem, as I want to use the epoxy primer to seal the metal (will have to use the car, the epoxy will prevent moisture from getting to the primer layer).

Thus - epoxy to keep out moisture, but then I cannot have the car painted. No epoxy, moisture can get in resulting in a ruined paintjob. Lose-lose situation.

Is there a way to get around this problem, and still use epoxy primer?
 
How about having the painter shoot a seal coat of epoxy before shooting the color?
 
Yeah, this is really not an issue at all. Do all your work and seal it up with epoxy. All the painter will have to do is scuff everything and spray a sealer coat of epoxy before base.
 
Thanks for the answers, I will discuss this with the painter, or maybe finish the car, arrange a day for painting and than, the day before, epoxy it again myself.
 
Keep in mind that if you need to use the car while working on it to pay extra attention to cleaning prior to applying more coats.
You never know what can get on the car from the road and result in fish eye or other suface contamination issues.
 
metalman;19129 said:
Keep in mind that if you need to use the car while working on it to pay extra attention to cleaning prior to applying more coats.
You never know what can get on the car from the road and result in fish eye or other suface contamination issues.
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Thanks for the warning. Yes, I need to use the car, I will be do one panel from start to finish before using the car. When all is ready, I will have to sand the entire car, spray epoxy, lightly sand it to get it flat, and when at the painter, sand it down lightly again. Does anyone see a problem with this?
 
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