I will be starting the bodywork on my car soon and would like to know if primer can be died another color. I have seen primer that is an off white and would like to get primer in a blue car. any help from you paint pros will be great.
I had a primer tinted to a blue color about 15 years ago, cant recall what they did but I know it is possible.
Light grey primers tint very easily. Be sure to get the pigment(s) and the amounts for future reference.
many are tintable...sherwin williams spectraprime is flexable...sands nice...tintable...local napa...
I know this is not a HAMB friendly car, but it is an example of how I went the opposite route and had an '85 GM stock color flattened so it appeared to be primer.
DuPont uses the Value Shade System, That is basicly a hide hideing color that is sprayed on over the sealer in one coat, and then you procede with the correct color of the car. The "Value Shade" will be found on the Formula page for each color if needed. It is not needed in water based paints as they have excelent hiding, in as little as one coat of paint. This reminds me of the old Dulux days when I would mix up all my leftover colors to use for a base coat in order to save money!
Many years ago, back in the days of lacquer paints, my old boss told me to mix some lacquer topcoat in the primer to give it a bit of weather-ability, and some color as well. When I got the bodywork done on my '67 Chevelle (partially dechromed and louvered) I thought it needed a solid color. I mixed a little red topcoat into light gray primer and painted the whole car in a manly shade of pink. Coordinated well with the burgandy rally wheels and interior.
Back in the 60s the body men would get white primer and tint it to a pastel flat color. I remember a blue and an orange. I never worked in a body shop but the guys that did had pastel primered cars. I assume it was lacquer primer. This was long before acrylic enamel with the hardeners.
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