Re: Trunk Paint???
[Re: mopowers]
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08/05/10 02:16 PM
08/05/10 02:16 PM
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Posts: 21,345 Marysville, O-H-I-O
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NOOOOO!!!!!
avoid the spray bomb!!!
the cheap spray bomb stuff stays soft, doesn't stick very well, and will scratch off if you put things in there. I admit, it looks good when you first do it, for about 10 minutes.
I had the bed of my Dakota sprayed with that stuff, to hide the years of abuse. it looked good till I put some folding lawn chairs in it...and they slid around, and it scraped off and stuck to the chairs. 2 months later, it would still scrape off with a finger nail.
if you use bed liner, get the good stuff that actually hardens.
I have since swapped my bed from another truck to avoid having to do body work to the bed rail where the wind ripped off my bed cover, so that crap is gone, thank god!
**Photobucket sucks**
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Re: Trunk Paint???
[Re: DaytonaTurbo]
#764313
08/06/10 12:35 AM
08/06/10 12:35 AM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,841 A collage of whims
topside
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I see a lot of rattle-can bedliner jobs in truck beds that are peeling & chipping; probably asa much to do with preparation as anything. We shoot the real bedliner stuff at work, and that stuff is HEAVY. If you prep the surface properly (grind it with basically about 50 grit), it will never come off. It doesn't like to be painted over. In an A-body trunk it would easily add 30-40 lbs, and it requires high pressure to spray it properly. My Duster racecar has had the dark spatter paint in it forever, and it has held up well. I went over it 16 years ago and it still looks cherry. I don't throw anything in there, though, only a trickle charger, and its 2 batteries are in marine boxes. If the car has always had a painted trunk area like factory, I'd have left it that way, but it's way easier to touch-up or respray spatter paint from a rattle can than it is to properly refinish as factory.
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