Looks Good!

 

how flexible are the panels?
I painted my dirtbike with duplicolor premixed base and clear from napa for 25 bucks a quart 1 qt of black 1 qt of clear with some blue pearl powder thrown in.
the plastics are flexable as hell and the paint is holding up just fine on it

 

I painted mine and a few others. Even done some graphics and I did not use flex agent. Unless you really twist one by hitting something...you won't need it. And if you hit something that hard the painted is fucked anyway.

 

i paint 1 or 2 a week and dont use flex agent. but body prep is the key.

 

I painted mine about 10 years ago with no agent in it and it looks great yet. Just put down some good primer and it should be fine. The panels don't really flex enough to stress it so I'd say it's not needed!

 

I never use flex agent on anything. Like said, if you fuck something up bad enough to flex the paint off, it needs redone anyway.

 

Here's the myth of flex agent exposed. And this is from every paint rep from numerous paint manufactures I've used.

All flex agent does is slow down the cure time on the paint that you added it to. That enables the vehicle to be reassembled, man handled if you will, with out the paint cracking. Once fully cured, the paint isn't anymore flexible than if you hadn't used it in the first place.

Also, todays urethane paints are already flexible enough compared to yesterday's lacquers and enamels,...so it doesn't need any flex additive. I paint every day, and haven't used a drop of it in decades.

 

This, I didn't read any further. Same thing I was told.

 

Thanks guys for the information. As usual YB comes through !
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Looks good! Gary said no flex agent needed. And he's a professional.

 

I've sprayed four of them in various House of Kolor products, pearls, metals, ect. None of them with a flex agent and all still look great.

 

We used regular automotive base/clear coat...no flex agent...never any problems...

 

You might want to strip all that old paint off. Could lift on you

 

This is SO true...prep is so important!!!

 

What's the best way to strip a golf cart? I have one with a crappy rattle can paint job I'd like to put a decent paint job on. I'm afraid to use stripper for fear of it softening the body and I'm afraid to use a DA for fear of gouging the body. Should I have it soda blasted?

 

I used SEM bumper stripper on mine, Like aircraft stripper but not as strong, Comes in a puff can.

2k urethane primer on mine and single stage urethane paint, About 5 years old, Still holding up and looking good.