Re: Portland OR area Paint Shops
Posted by BigKev On 2011/2/15 20:45:50
Jim,
Check with your local paint shops. With some of the newer paint systems there are indeed certain incompatibilities in regards to spraying one type of paint over another. The chemicals in a modern urethane can cause the old paint underneath to lift and wrinkle depending on what the old type is. I have seen this happen. Since your car was already repainted at one time, you need to have them check type of current paint it has on it. Better safe then sorry. Sometimes the correct primer can help to shield one type of paint from another.
The more prep-work you can do for the paint shop, the less labor it takes, and as such the cheaper the work is. The actual time and labor to spray the paint is the cheap part. The paint, materials, and prep labor are the expensive.
Also remove the trim, no sense in dropping a couple of grand on a paint job to take the "Earl Scheib" way out of not removing the trim. Nothing looks worse or more cheesy than having an old paint jobs visible about the edges.
Masking is more work that the actual spraying of the paint. So the more trim you remove, the less masking the shop has to do. So you are actually saving money, and will get a better looking paint job in the process.
Just my
Check with your local paint shops. With some of the newer paint systems there are indeed certain incompatibilities in regards to spraying one type of paint over another. The chemicals in a modern urethane can cause the old paint underneath to lift and wrinkle depending on what the old type is. I have seen this happen. Since your car was already repainted at one time, you need to have them check type of current paint it has on it. Better safe then sorry. Sometimes the correct primer can help to shield one type of paint from another.
The more prep-work you can do for the paint shop, the less labor it takes, and as such the cheaper the work is. The actual time and labor to spray the paint is the cheap part. The paint, materials, and prep labor are the expensive.
Also remove the trim, no sense in dropping a couple of grand on a paint job to take the "Earl Scheib" way out of not removing the trim. Nothing looks worse or more cheesy than having an old paint jobs visible about the edges.
Masking is more work that the actual spraying of the paint. So the more trim you remove, the less masking the shop has to do. So you are actually saving money, and will get a better looking paint job in the process.
Just my
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