I have a choice of painters to shoot a truck I am working on. One is a standard body shop that uses Sikkens, and the other is a guy that has a shop behind his house that uses Sherwin-Williams AVX waterborne. He swears it's the shiznit as far as paint goes. Sherwin-Williams has never had a great reputation with their solvent paints, but not sure on this new stuff.

I've been in the collision trade forever, but have not been around any waterborne paints before. The guy that has the AVX system works at the local Navy base as a painter, and that is what they use. The biggest advantage to using the guy with the waterborne is it can get done quickly if I do all the prepping, plus he is much closer.

The body shop is a typical body shop where the bread and butter collision stuff gets put ahead of big resto jobs, I know I work there.

Are conventional primers compatible with waterborne paints?