The paint on the passenger side of the Viper where the exhaust comes out has been flaking off since I've owned the car. The dealership has tried 3 times to fix it and no luck. Always starts to flake back off within 40-50 miles.
About 2 months ago I sanded the area down and applied 3 coats Duplicolor 1200 flat black to the area. Let it sit over night. It was a pretty cold night overall, probably got down to 40-50 degrees outside, not sure how cold it got in the garage though. It was on the borderline of not doing it at all when I sprayed it because it was only high 50's and it says needs to be 60-90. Anyway, it showed signs of issues just about as quickly as the dealerships paint, but didn't flake off for about 400 miles, and not nearly as bad as the dealerships.
So today I sanded the area down again and applied 3 coats of Duplicolor 500 degree primer and am going to apply three coats of the 1200 on after that.
The directions say to apply more then 3 coats of the paint to wait 7 days to let it cure. Does this mean you can't use the item for 7 days, or just it wants 7 days before you should apply more paint?
Obviously it is retarded hot today. So I'm wondering If I could drive the car tonight. I'm guessing the paint will do much better with 7 hours of 90 degree weather then 10 hours of the weather it was in the first time I did it. Plus I have the primer on there.
Thanks!
Jason