What does Primer do for your paint job?? Why do you put it i primer first....

 

It makes the paint adhere better and lets you make sure everything is smooth and flat.

 

OK i knew that adhere part i wasnt sure about the checking part...thanks

 

Do u suggest that i do it before i paint my car?? Someone told me its not that big of a deal??

 

do yourself a favor and kick that someone in the face

 

As far as primering a car goes... no you don't HAVE to do it. However, if you don't mind rust poppin through your paint inside of 2 weeks, and lots of bubbles all over the place, then you're fine to not primer it. However, unless you happen to not like that stuff, like the majority of us, then primer all the spots that have been taken down to bare metal (and you don't really want to primer over old crappy paint, just leads to problems).

And yes, I second that one, greatly.

 

 

You say that primer is used to help paint adhere to the metal of the car, right? Well, I just happen to be a witness to some faulty primer then. When I bought my bird, it was covered in primer except for the front clip, front fenders, and the passenger door. I absolutley HAD to get some paint on it becuase it was butt ugly in mostly primer and part red (factory Van Nuys peeling paint). Well, I bought a few cans of Rust-Oleum and sprayed the heck out of it until I got one uniform color (except for my stripe, which remained red). Lo and behold, not even two weeks later, I have a nice huge rain bubble in the front corner of the hood, and I can peel the paint off like it was the original factory Van Nuys paint. Now, I have no way of knowing whether our ice storm in early April did the primer in, or whether it was just too old to adhere properly (I have no idea how long it had been there), but it was like the factory paint, peeling like an orange.

 

um..... did you spray over the peeling paint

Seriously tho, did you at least scuff the paint first, i dont really like primering a car with rattle cans, you can buy primer at the auto paint store, it dont cost to much. And spray it thru a paint gun.

 

I have no idea what the heck the prev owner did! All I know is that I bought the car that way and I hated it. And yes, I spent roughly four hours scuffing the crap out of the remaining clear coat with 80 grit sandpaper (I know you're going to yell at me for doing so, but it's all I had on me at the time) And I didn't primer with rattle cans, I just painted over the existing primer and the scuffed paint. I think that the primer and the paint I used weren't compatible or something, because the hood was already done in primer, and that's the only place I had a problem...

And serously, If I had a paint gun, I wouldn't go through the trouble of buying twelve million (not quite that many, but you get the idea) spray cans to cover up the primer. I don't even have an air compressor, I do it all with brute force... (ouch)

Also, about the only place that ISN'T peeling are the pass door and fenders that still had factory paint...

 

Ahhh i see, so the previous owners weren't cool, so to say. Well the best thing to do is sand the entire car down, strip it. get it to bare metal basicly, yes i know this will take time, then spray self etching primer, then regular primer. that should take care of your peeling issues, but requires alot more work lol

But if and when ya do it. good luck

I feel ya on the no air compressor, my friends compressor was down for awhile cuz of a crapped out bearing, then in turn it ate the crank.

 

You must have read my mind or something: SCARY!

I have all winter free due to lack of schooling or a job (coming soon, I hope) and after I get the darn engine going, that's what I'm going to do... rework the paint and the interior (gray to black/red, the interior, that is).

 

I can also read minds.

But when you get to reworking the paint on it, search on here there are some good articles, about painting.

Ive had since last winter with no job or school, but no money = no mods That the shatty part, im rebuilding me a 355 now too. Slow going till i getta job.

 

alot of how a paint job works out has to do with the prep work.
Crappy prep = crappy paint job