Anyone do a hybrid - Part Epoxy part Racedeck tiles?

I have a 2.5 car garage. Its uninsulated, the floor is in terrible condition, 40 years of oil stains and its also all pitted.

I was considering a moderate cleaning and chemical etch then the cheapest epoxy I could find. I would then put down racedeck or some other tiel on top.

My reasonging is:
1. If I move I could take the tiles with me, but the floor would still look nicer for potential buyers
2. I may never have an empty garage again, so figured now would be a good time to clean and epoxy; but I never want to re-do it.
3. I could only put the racedeck down where the cars would go. No need to spend the money on the other areas, but the other areas could still look good as they would have epoxy (and should last a long time since there would be no traffic on them). This would make the install easier too because no cutting of tiles and cheaper because I would need less tiles.

Shoud I just decide and go for a pro epoxy or a full floor racedeck or is there some merit to a hybrid approach? Anyone have pics of how it could look?

live in the Chicagoland area so weather gets nasty in the winter if that matters.

I think either way your $$$ costs will be about the same. I would pick one (all RD) or the other (all epoxy) personally.

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I did epoxy for the whole garage but I'm doing race deck for one bay. I will be having my motorcycle lifts and the snowblower sit on the deck. I'm sure over time the lifts would have torn up the epoxy.

Worth considering for sure. I would wonder though if the RD sharp contact points on the floor would tear up the newly applied so so epoxy under them as they shift or scoot under the cars' weight? If so you might have more of a mess of epoxy when picking up the tiles to move.

May consider just thoroughly cleaning where the RD would go and do the epoxy in the non car spots for your hybrid idea.

I did cheap box store rustoleum epoxy about 5 years back and then put racedeck down over it as it is starting to look bad. We have a 4 foot wide step that runs the entire width of the garage which is left with just the epoxy. This area is used for storage, hoses, lawn mower, snow blower, winter tires etc... Still looks great after 5 years of use as it has no vehicle traffic on the epoxy. Just get a racedeck pattern and epoxy color that looks okay together and it will work great.

I think having epoxy under the RD also lets the water run away and not soak into the concrete.
I had a garage floor like yours with cracks and pits from Ohio winters and the use of salt. I rented a floor grinder that smoothed out the pits and prepped the surface for epoxy. It didn't make the pits flat but made them bowl shaped. I tried a concrete leveler but it would just lift off. Anyways I epoxied it and actually came out great.