Rust-OleumAutomotive Truck Bed Coating Spray

I bought this to cover an aluminum floor in a jon boat as i felt spray in bed liner was the way to go. First off it takes several minutes to shake up well and get the ball moving in the can. Once i sprayed it, it sprays almost creme colored for the first few seconds then closer to the actual color. This stuff is thin, well to be very straight forward its just matte spray paint with a very slight texture to it. I’d say it ends up like matte paint with a bad overspray from a bad nozzle. Some others have said its like sandpaper texture and that is not far off. This stuff is nothing like bed liner, bed liner being thick and rubbery and able to protect what is below it. This is spray paint with nothing more than a little overspray roughness and no thicker than spray paint and definitely no flex or rubbery properties. This will not protect the surface it is on from anything but from being ugly. In my case i just wanted and dull tan surface than was nonslip for a fishing hunting boat and this does a good good as dull very matte paint and is better than shiny aluminum plate for walking on. It scratches super easy and the texture wears faster than you would think it should but it is paint and nothing more. I bought 6 cans to start and another 8 to over coat and see if i could thicken it with extra coats and it didn’t. I you want bed liner buy an actual bedliner kit for your compressor, i would have been money ahead if i did. Another thing is real bedliner sound deadens a bit and this doesnt do that either. If you want very dull non reflective paint this is your huckleberry, otherwise its not for you

I bought this to spray on a homemade drop riffle gold sluice to give it a little more "tooth" to see if it would hold the gold better. It worked very well for that and slows the gold down enough so that it falls in the the drop riffles much better. The "tooth" also makes it much harder for it to come out of the riffles as well and so holds onto it. I also used what was left for the bed of a miller table that is used to separate the gold from the sand and other material. It worked well on the miller table but the gold blends right in with the color and makes is very hard to see. I guess I'll have to go with the black on that one.This paint goes on a little thicker than most spray paints and has a surface about like a 200 grit sandpaper and has a very matt finish. It is a very nice tan color and looks very nice. It would take a lot of cans to do a truck bed and you would probably need to give it at least 3 coats in order to give it a little durability. One can of this covered about 3 square feet with 3 coats for me. I would suggest the paint brush version for a truck bed for durability, but for trim it would do nicely.This also would work very well to paint on steps for good traction as it is not slippery when wet and has a sandpaper like finish.

Good stuff but one can doesn’t go far.

Rust-Oleum just a couple of years ago sold a product under the same name that left a very durable, course satin finish that applied easily and evenly, looked good, was easy to keep clean and maintain, and which hid touch ups very well. I have several items that I painted with it over the past several years and they still look good. Recently Rust-Oleum started selling this product, by the same name as the previous truck bed coating, with a slightly different picture on the can but the same description of the product.IT IS NOT THE SAME PRODUCT !I had a properly prepped surface and began applying the coating. It was immediately apparent that it was not the same product I had used before. The product appeared thicker and did not apply evenly. I shook the can some more thinking maybe it hadn't mixed adequately. The application was no better and soon began splattering a dripping. Three out of five cans plugged completely well before they were empty. The finish was like sandpaper rather than satin, was blotchy with variations in color and texture. Honestly, the project looked a lot better in primer. Amazon gave me a refund and I contacted Rust Oleum where I was told that it had to be a fluke and perhaps the product had been mishandled (overheated or frozen). So I reordered, stripped the finish and primed and prepped the surface. Same results. After a week of drying the "sand" rubs off with just firm hand pressure leaving numerous pinholes through to the primer. It is so rough (about like a medium grit sandpaper) that it pulled fibers from a towel I used to dry it after its first washing. In the attached close up, you can see the finish, some pinholes where sand rubbed off, and the yellow fibers from the towel used to dry the surface.I had recommended the old product numerous times in the past, but this new stuff is nowhere near as good as the original and I will be contacting Rust-Oleum to tell them so.

my can arrived without the spray nozzle .. ok no worries found one that fits but still nearly impossible to get a good pattern and steady spray , full can unused unopened but would only spray upside down .. i don't know but it sucked probab;y a defective can , the color is greati also purchased 2 gallons of the same color to paint my jeep with a pro gun ... hard but great results better than the can, even the color is slightly different and the texture is so much better. i used the can as a test for the color and adhesion , i think duplicolor is a better product but they don't have the same color