For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to repaint my truck with some trunk spatter I bought from Ames. I cleaned the truck multiple times before spraying and when I layed down a coat of gray/white I got huge brown spots all over the trunk. Has anyone else had this happen or is the lucky sign I was born under doing it's thing again? At this rate I'll have about 10 cans in it and a coat 4 inches thick before I manage to cover all the brown!! WTF?!

Brian

Did the first coat go on over bare metal?

No there was already a coat of some crap on there. I probably should have scraped all that off the sprayed on bare metal huh?

Brian

when I did mine I first painted the trunk with black rustoleum...then spatter , then clear coat(spatter paint is water soluble)

I'll second that. When I did it, I had used rustoleum BROWN primer and like to have NEVER got it covered well. You can also imagine MY dissapointment when I found out the hard way just how water soluble it is...Bjorn, where were you in '89 when I needed that information?
BTW, it has been on there ever since then.

The trunk already had a black primer on it when I started this nightmare. Maybe something in the paint was being drawn out when I layed that spatter over it. I've got the clear coat but I'm not going to lay it over that "dalmatian" trunk. I ordered two more cans from Ames so hopefully that takes care of it. This is getting to be a little pricey.

Brian

I had brown bleeding through on the insides of the quarter panels from the sound deadener rubber stuff. I wonder if somebody sprayed undercoat in your trunk some time in the past.

Not to discourage you, but I tried priming over it and it still bled through the primer and the splatter paint.

To do it right you are going to have to scrape all that stuff off. After that, the best thing you could do would be to get a good coat of two part epoxy primer on it in a light color like gray. Apply a light coat of spatter. Then clear coat over top. If you do all that, you will have a nice trunk that should stand the test of time.

It's definitely a bleed through problem. Try spraying very light coats allowing ample drying time in between to see if you can get one of the spots to hide. If that doesn't work, you're going to have to strip it down to metal and recoat with rustoleum or better, an epoxy and urethane like Jim suggests. Mine was sprayed with epoxy primer and black urethane before the spatter and looks great with no problems.

Arrrgh.....I thought so. Thanks for all your input!!

Brian

I had some surface rust in mine. I cleaned it up and used POR-15 then spatter paint and clear from Rick's First Generation. Turned out excellent - a perfect match to the original spatter paint in the trunk.

Tom

I also used brown-red primer. I ended up using about 5 cans of the stuff to cover all the primer to my satisfaction. Now my trunk has a "bed liner" type thickness.