Underside of a 500

[C500]

I'll be painting the underside of the 500 very soon. She's been sitting in primer a few weeks now and I have the F8 on hand. She'll be finished with underseal.

Would the factory have painted the underside body color before applying underseal? Or did they just underseal over the primer? I never saw it as it was sandblasted before I had a chance to check.

[62 Max]

No body color on the bottom of anything,only primer .

[hemi68charger]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the question more like "Did the body undersealer get applied after the car was painted or before?". I personally have never seen an original paint car in which the undercoating had paint on it too down there. It is my impression the car was painted first, then undercoating applied..........  Of course, the car post-paint would have had the primer bottom with color overspray. Most of this transition would have been covered with cars with undercoating........ No?

[62 Max]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the question more like "Did the body undersealer get applied after the car was painted or before?". I personally have never seen an original paint car in which the undercoating had paint on it too down there. It is my impression the car was painted first, then undercoating applied..........  Of course, the car post-paint would have had the primer bottom with color overspray. Most of this transition would have been covered with cars with undercoating........ No?

That would be correct.

[C500]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the question more like "Did the body undersealer get applied after the car was painted or before?". I personally have never seen an original paint car in which the undercoating had paint on it too down there. It is my impression the car was painted first, then undercoating applied..........  Of course, the car post-paint would have had the primer bottom with color overspray. Most of this transition would have been covered with cars with undercoating........ No?

My question was for cars that got underseal, did they bother painting underneath first or just underseal straight over the primer to finish the underbelly. I wasn't thinking there was then paint put over the undersealer, just whether or not the underseal had color under it. You've answered my question guys, thanks for the replies  It seems the only time a car got body color underneath is when there was no underseal applied (excepting for a little overspray around edges of a car destined for undersealer).

[hemi68charger]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the question more like "Did the body undersealer get applied after the car was painted or before?". I personally have never seen an original paint car in which the undercoating had paint on it too down there. It is my impression the car was painted first, then undercoating applied..........  Of course, the car post-paint would have had the primer bottom with color overspray. Most of this transition would have been covered with cars with undercoating........ No?

My question was for cars that got underseal, did they bother painting underneath first or just underseal straight over the primer to finish the underbelly. I wasn't thinking there was then paint put over the undersealer, just whether or not the underseal had color under it. You've answered my question guys, thanks for the replies  It seems the only time a car got body color underneath is when there was no underseal applied (excepting for a little overspray around edges of a car destined for undersealer).

Cars with and without the underseal would have been painted the same way, they were all painted first............. The only difference between the cars with and without the underseal is the underseal itself..... The only paint on the underside would have been the overspray from the application of the paint at the lower edges.....

[roger440]

And as i understand it, underseal was applied after the car was completed.