UPOL gravitex

[nova_pipi]

I'm looking at painting the underneath of my car in the near future so I have fully stripped the underneath and wheel arches of all old seam sealant and old stone chip plus completed any necessary welding.
I have zinc primed the bottom and I am planning on seam sealing the shell again and then re stone chipping the base with UPOL gravitex using a compressor and shultz gun.
My question is what is everyone's experience with gravitex? Is it any good so I won't need to do the process again and is it easily over paintable?
Thanks
Phil

[conza123]

I'm using upol raptor on mine
u can tint it car colour to

[slimtater]

Upol Raptor - look at my Sport build on projects!

[nova_pipi]

Cheers, is raptor over paintable? On the tintable version, does it alter the colour at all such as make it look duller etc, you've done a great job on your sport

[slimtater]

Cheers, is raptor over paintable? On the tintable version, does it alter the colour at all such as make it look duller etc, you've done a great job on your sport

You can overpaint it but to be honest if you get it tinted body colour and it's the underside, not sure why. It's a tad duller than the main body finish that's all.

[nova_pipi]

Was just thinking of doing it black then over painting it as its going to be a home jobby just using aerosols for the paint, did it alter the colour in anyway or was it as you say just slightly duller, probably due to not having a lacquer on? Not sure though

[slimtater]

Was just thinking of doing it black then over painting it as its going to be a home jobby just using aerosols for the paint, did it alter the colour in anyway or was it as you say just slightly duller, probably due to not having a lacquer on? Not sure though

No it didn't alter the colour - I ordered it as tinted Polar White and the colour was pretty spot on. I guess if you are doing black and comparing with a black paint with lacquer then you are probably going to think its duller though. I would say the texture, ease and protection underneath far outweigh and dullness though - well they did for me! :-)

Did you see the videos I posted? They are probably difficult to see the finish.

[Benn]

Gravitiex tends to dry and start to spilt. It's cheap and crap.

Spend the money on better and you'll get a much better finish, job, protection.

[nova_pipi]

Ahhh didn't realise gravitex went like that, I've opted for raptor now and going to over paint the black version, thanks for the advise everyone

[Benn]

Yeah it's cheap and crap.

My bodyshop use it on mot welding jobs. Next year on and it's all come apart.