Don't laugh until you try it. trunk splatter
#1
Don't laugh until you try it. trunk splatter
I went out to get some trunk splatter paint. We epoxy primed the trunk and the auto parts store was out of splatter. I went to a local store called fleet farm and the have a spray paint called Valspar stone. It is for painting lawn items. The stuff looks just like splatter paint but dries fast and rock hard. It is a little rough but looks great. The typical splatter paint I've used over the years dries slow and is watery and easliy damaged. I'll let let you know how it holds up.
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Just an Olds Guy
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB. And "I am Can 'eh' jun - eh"
Posts: 24,525
I went out to get some trunk splatter paint. We epoxy primed the trunk and the auto parts store was out of splatter. I went to a local store called fleet farm and the have a spray paint called Valspar stone. It is for painting lawn items. The stuff looks just like splatter paint but dries fast and rock hard. It is a little rough but looks great. The typical splatter paint I've used over the years dries slow and is watery and easliy damaged. I'll let let you know how it holds up.
BTW, I haven't "tried" to damage the splatter in my trunk, but it seems to hold up pretty good. Seeing as how it's not a daily driver hauling a lot of stuff around, I tend to want to stick to how it was built. But if the new stuff is better..........I'll try it.
Duplicolor has this stuff for 6.99 Have you tried it?
#5
I've used the watery trunk splatter before and wasn't too impressed. I would have liked the greeninsh black color better. It was about $6 a can. The stuff seems rock hard. The reason I had to redo the trunk is that some water leaked into the trunk thanks to a poor seal and got a mat wet in my trunk. I didn't know until it began to stink and by the time I got it out it was starting to rust. We cleaned the trunk with a wire brush and encapsulated the pan. We then sprayed a couple coats of gray epoxy primer and let it dry in the hot sun. We then sprayed the trunk paint splatter. It was rock hard in an hour. The typical trunk splatter is chalky and doesn't hold up to the water at all and reacts to some types of undercoating. It may have boiled down to an inferior paint below the splatter that rusted. We throw drag tires in the trunk of the Olds and drive the daylights out of it. Maybe a black epoxy base would ave made it look better? It just an FYI post.
Last edited by MN71W30; May 24th, 2010 at 03:22 PM.
#6
I was hoping a trunk splatter thread would start..I need to redo mine also but it's been splattered once before some time ago and a bad job was done...can this stuff be removed somehow so you can start with bare metal again? I don't want to just spray over it and have it start flaking right away. Anybody been down this road? thanks.
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Just an Olds Guy
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB. And "I am Can 'eh' jun - eh"
Posts: 24,525
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I was hoping a trunk splatter thread would start..I need to redo mine also but it's been splattered once before some time ago and a bad job was done...can this stuff be removed somehow so you can start with bare metal again? I don't want to just spray over it and have it start flaking right away. Anybody been down this road? thanks.
#8
i used the gm resto trunk paint last year por 15ed it primed, it paint and put a trunk pad in it It stuck to the trunk pad from the heat and like mn 71 said didnt hold up well and It has had a easy life. but it was from a can not a gun .
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