Paint Your Car With Rustoleum

Step 2 Remove Trim

Look at your car. Especially in the door jams. Imagine masking all those little parts off, one by one....sound like fun? No. Remove them (this may be a long process, but most trim comes off pretty easily with the right tools).

What exactly should you remove?

• Hood, trunk, gas tank lid (if removable) - these are a lot easier to paint separately
• Rubber gaskets/trim
• Lights
• Reflectors
• License plates
• Door latching stuff
• Pretty much anything that goes over a painted surface, that you can remove safely

Stash all the parts somewhere they won't get lost, stolen, rained on, etc. A nice empty work table is great, then you can lay them out in an organized way - i.e. NOT like this:

Comments

[wonkette]

 Don't forget to attach any appropriate nuts, bolts, fasteners to the part you removed or put them in a plastic zip-lock bag.  Next, label that bag.

[shparker]

if your going to all that trouble why not usee good quality auto paint, the hot sun will blister that rustolium in no time

[TFS Jake]

I don't think it will, I have seen pics of cars that have had this paint job for 5+ years with no ill effects.

[KAR120C]

As he mentioned in the front page when borrowing his neighbor's spray gun: You'd think that he also borrowed that paint shop garage....

[desotojohn]

I painted a metal shed with Rustoleum. I used a spray gun. It never blistered or peeled in the Calif sun.

[DGerman]

I always keep a hammer handy when doing a paint job!
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Where is crow bar?