So rolling the paint onto the warmed up body yielded some mostly acceptable results.
Until the paint started to flash off. It appears that it started to chemically react with the primer and the bubbles being the result of some weird off-gassing.
So what do you do in this situation? That's right, you stubbornly ignore the facts and continue to paint the roof in cream color and realize it's only bad the first the first time, but if you then roll it another time... it ends up being remotely acceptable. Which was good news because I had to roll the roof on the inside anyway.
Let me just reiterate one more thing: only absolute idiots paint cars in multiple colors and doing it again is definitely not a testament to me being capable of learning from my own mistakes. BUT I had one of those "talks" with my paint dealer, which resulted in both of us having a long phone call with the manufacturer, who demanded some pictures and then informed me about my mistakes regarding how I mixed and applied the primer. But it resulted in me getting the black paint for the floor for free as they said that still it shouldn't have caused problems to this extent.
And whilst I was at it, I also painted the firewall black.
To be fair the results were a lot more in line with what I experienced the last time. Whilst I was fully aware that I wouldn't be able to save the paintjob on the outside this gave me the hope that I could make it "usable". So another coat it is, but this time sprayed on.
It turned out much as one would expect: a bit 3.6 Roentgen - not great, not terrible, but only if you have ignore the futility of the attempt. At least this bit wouldn't rust immediately, because of the millions of pin holes.
Classic case of this really being one of the hardest lessons: To sometimes accept defeat and keep moving on. (As depressed as this may sound it has kind of grown on me - definitely not something anybody else would copy on purpose.)
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