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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Body, Glass & Paint => Topic started by: deadllama on April 10, 2019, 07:59:33 AM
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My '80 C10 still has the original paint, but the previous owner decided to remove the body trim and the trim clips at some point before I bought it. After doing that, he sprayed everywhere that used to have body side molding with red primer, right on top of the original paint, leaving a nice set of red stripes on top of the brown on both sides of the truck.
My question is this: is there a way to remove the red primer that's been sprayed on top of the factory paint, or do I just have to live with it until I can repaint the whole truck? If I can remove the primer, I'd like to do that and just put new trim back on. "It's only got the original paint once," etc.
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Start with mineral spirits and see if you can take the primer of without harming what is underneath. If the primer is cheap and the paint is a 2K it may come off.
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You can also try wet 2000 grit, keep the water flowing and slowly cut it down.
Then buff out the last layer back down to the paint with rubbing compound.
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Just wanted to follow up on this--I know it's an old post, but I've been trying all kinds of various things over the last year and finally found the solution. Lacquer thinner will take red oxide primer right off the factory paint like it's nothing. I'm not done yet, but I've been able to clean up one whole side of the truck with about an hour of elbow grease.
Now I have a bunch of messed up/sanded spots on my truck to deal with (which is what the guy I bought it from was trying to cover with all that red primer in the first place), but all the red primer is gone! Just wanted to update the thread in case anybody else runs into the same issue.