Should I paint trunk of car with spray cans?

Question

I was on a website that sells all three coats of the cars paint in spray cans. I wanted to paint the trunk of my 97 accord which is fading. Does anybody have any experience with how good this really is

Answer 1

It works we did it on a van in like blood red

Answer 2

The pay may not be your problem, yes you have to use good paint but the most important thing is the prep and where you do it. You could actually paint your car with krylon or rustoleum if it is prepped right. We have used spray cans of metallic or flax on smaller items , like the fenders of trailers and it came out ok. The paint is the same paint that bodyshops use but in cans. saying that if you take your time and use clear coat after it dries and buff it, assuming you have the right color match, you should be ok.

Answer 3

if it,s just fading, you can buy stuff in a bottle that takes the fade away. i think auto zone carries it.but if you want to paint it using spray cans, then yes you can. i painted my roof on my car with spray cans. what you do is start at 1 end and cspray to the other, without stoppoing in the middle and spray over the overspray so you won,t get streaks.

Answer 4

Carpe dium.  Painting your trunk with individual cans of spay paint is possible; however, even if the cans are from the same batch you will not get a consistency in the color.  Your trunk will look blotchy.  Also, does the paint match the paint on the rest of the car?  Try it out on a large piece of cardboard first to see if you can live with the discrepancy of color.    Good Luck.

Answer 5

Painting a bigger area with spray cans don't work. It wont put out a wide enough of a pattern so it checker boards the the item you are painting. Also when you spray paint you need to overlap the paint while it is still wet and you can't do it with spray cans. I wouldn't waste the money .

Answer 6

The most important thing will be to do all of the proper prep work, like cleaning the trunk lid, sanding it, cleaning it again, etc.  If I knew 100% what was involved, I'd help more.  

Try looking through these though:

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&h...

I just Googled "painting a car with spray paint" and a lot of tutorials came up.  Good luck.  It'll be risky, and worthless if you don't take your time to do it right, but it could work out well I guess.  

Answer 7

if you have any rust,you might consider using Hammerite,expensive, but reliable,otherwise use what you can get