I had my car painted (The shop owner is a friend) and they used Chromabase. After the car was painted it looked very good except for a few issues (dirt and small runs in the clear). On the inside of 2 of the doors, an area about 2"x 2" where the painter had put some green tape to hold the door closed, the black paint came off right down to the primer.
When I stopped by to see the car, I was surprised to see that they had scuffed the entire car for re-clear??? The painter told me that they just wanted to get a good, smooth coat of clear on the car. I'm not going to complain about another coat of clear. last week I get a call that the entire car needed to be stripped back down because ALL of the paint was pealing off!
I stopped by the shop today and the painter says the the Dupont rep asked if he used activator. He said no, he hadn't used it for years. Rep says that is probably the problem.
SO--here is my issue; I made all the body mods, and a seasoned body man, with 50 years experience, did the body work and shot the body with 5 STAR XTREME 5425 High Build 2K DTM Primer/filler. The car sat in my shop, while I worked on it, for about a year before going to paint.
Both the painter, and owner, said, almost in passing, that there might have been an issue with the primer my guy put down. Maybe he didn't activate it etc. I'm sure that he did, but I don't want them using that for an excuse not to pick up the expense of repaint.
Any thoughts from you guys is appreciated.
When I stopped by to see the car, I was surprised to see that they had scuffed the entire car for re-clear??? The painter told me that they just wanted to get a good, smooth coat of clear on the car. I'm not going to complain about another coat of clear. last week I get a call that the entire car needed to be stripped back down because ALL of the paint was pealing off!
I stopped by the shop today and the painter says the the Dupont rep asked if he used activator. He said no, he hadn't used it for years. Rep says that is probably the problem.
SO--here is my issue; I made all the body mods, and a seasoned body man, with 50 years experience, did the body work and shot the body with 5 STAR XTREME 5425 High Build 2K DTM Primer/filler. The car sat in my shop, while I worked on it, for about a year before going to paint.
Both the painter, and owner, said, almost in passing, that there might have been an issue with the primer my guy put down. Maybe he didn't activate it etc. I'm sure that he did, but I don't want them using that for an excuse not to pick up the expense of repaint.
Any thoughts from you guys is appreciated.