How many cans of primer should I use for my bumper?

[highlandgst]

the title pretty much asks my question any idea ? its a bomex front end

 

[93spoolin]

I assume you mean spray paint?Get high build in the auto section at wally world.1-2 cans. 2 would be good for putting on a couple coats

 

[viperlp01]

Well it doesn't have to do with how many cans but it is coverage and comfortability.. I put two coats of FLEX PRIMER on my front bumper than 3 coats of white.. I ran out of clear coat so i need to strip it down alittle and add more clear.. Make sure you use a flex primer on the bumpers or the paint will crack. They also make an additive for the base so the paint is extra flexible

edit- oo your spray painting.. Umm try what he said.^^^

 

[highlandgst]

thanks guys ill get on that

 

[93spoolin]

personally i would just save youself the headache and buy a quart of primer and spray it from a gun. spray can always looks good at first but 2 or 3 weeks down the road will look like shit imo

 

[highlandgst]

well the main intension is to shaker can primer and use the gun for the real paint coating

 

[93spoolin]

dude you dont want to paint your car after you rattle canned it. Ask any paint and body guys.they will tell you the same,just trying to save ya a headache

 

[jdodds]

to answer the OPs question, zero.

Go buy a paint gun and head over to your local body shop. Buy a quart of primer, base, and clear and all the hardeners and proper reducers. I bought some mid grade stuff from sherwin williams and it only ran 150 bucks. I had enough to cover about half the car. one quart of each should paint a body kit. Just remember that all the prep work is whats gonna make it look good.

 

[jdodds]

Also, the reducers in your base coat are gonna mess up the rattle can primer. Thats another reason not to touch a rattle can.

 

[Grimis]

if you have the time and money the best would be with a compressor and gun, if you do it by rattle and take it somewhere to paint it later, they are just going to undo what you just did.

Last year i did that to my car, and this winter its getting striped down and done by a gun, because after a month or too, you get the multi-gray-ness primor effect , looks killer wet but after it drys, you can tell the different shades of black .

 

[highlandgst]

gotcha ima try n get a gun and paint it otherwise im gonna have to take it somewhere to get it painted

 

[Fabian]

dude you dont want to paint your car after you rattle canned it. Ask any paint and body guys.they will tell you the same,just trying to save ya a headache

actually I do paint and body work at my shop and there's no reason you cant primer with a rattle can and spray with a gravity gun after. I use a good filler primer so it fills and blends any kind of defects that I cant get 100% of, then sand and spray the color. sand again, spray clear. DONE

 

[93spoolin]

if you use the cheap stuff it comes out like shit