Stopped by the painters yesterday to see the HD hood. Worse or better, depending on how you look at it by finding the issues (good) or having to paint it for the 3rd time (bad and a waste of paint $$). He took a whole bunch of photos, but these 2 are what I have for now. We had issues/reactions on the exterior section visible on the surface of the hood after both times it was painted. The reaction happened pretty much immediately and it looked like someone has sprinkled sand/non-skid over the surface of the hood. It was very shiny, but just looked like crap.
The lead painter decided this time to do every prep step himself to ensure that this 3rd time is actually the charm. He started with 80 grit on the DA and was not making headway. He ended up using 30 grit to finally reach bare metal and get thru all the under layers of crap that were not taken off the previous time.
The prep guys had not done a good enough job during prep and left some contamination/rust in the under layers as they evidently had not taken it all off, thus allowing it to react/breathe once the top coat was laid down and the scorching sun hit it. Pinholes and any body work were visible from the surface, but too hard to take a photo of. It went all the way thru to the metal. grrrr...Always in the prep that makes the real difference.
There is a primer coat on it now and they will be filling,fairing and blocking it the end of this week and shooting another primer coat as he works his way up to the final coats. Hope to have more pictures of the process to post up soon.
