Went to the local SW today to get a couple of gallons of paint. Put the paint in the trunk and made a couple of stops on the way home. Get home around 3, go to get the paint out and half of the one gallon is laying in the trunk. Call SW up and tell them……..main thing is that I need the paint first thing it the morning……. painter coming at 7 and I have to work. Make it back (19 miles) before they close at 4 and manager not there, clerk tells me to take it to a car wash and hose it out.
I do, however can not get it all out…….. has this happened to anyone else and what did the supplier do for you……. car is 4 years old……honda accord with a blue book of 13k……..
Dan
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Wash it out with alcohol or ammonia, or of course "Goof Off", sorry about your luck, but it should clean out OK.
Did the cans tip over? I hate to even let gallon cans in the back of a truck if they can't be kept upright or they will often open up and make a mess.
To me it seems no different from a galon of clorox bought from a grocery store--it's somewhat predictable that a leak and resulting damage will happen if it's not kept upright.
Sorry to hear about it.
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
one can was upright the other was on the side.......... can was open a good deal ......so i just think they didnt close it right
Nope, they closed it right. They can be sealed perfectly and if they tip over with a little force they hydraulic the top right open. Both car paint, oil base and latex. Can you tell I have done it a few times? Happy cleaning. DanT
Man I read your post and said to myself, here's a guy thats done it before!
Doug
Hasnt everyone ?
Once it happens its always on the mind of the unexpected.
Anyway , heres the way I do it . Hope it helps someone .
I use milk crates for a lot of different things and keep several on hand . The kind thats against the law to keep around. They will hold four gallons just like milk . They will haul a barbecue bottle with out it turning over . Paint too. Its its just a couple gallons then find somthing to stuff in the container where it can turn over . Works well with bleach too and gas. It hauls all kinds of things and can be used as a step ladder and a quick fix work bench of sorts. Great stool for taking breaks and the list goes on. Keep on in the van and the truck all the time .
Tim
The lid popped off my coffee and stained my carpet. Has anyone else had this happen with Jaun Valdez columbian coffee?
If it was McDonald's coffee, you could sue them. LOL
Juan has not graced my interior but Lipton has been spilled more then once and I have the stains to prove it. One of these days I'm going to build something to hold my Bubba keg!
Doug
The kind thats against the law to keep around.
Has anybody ever done time for this crime? I have some 15 or 20 of those things around and I dont want to be the first guy up at the big house telling the other inmates why I'm there!
Doug
I was getting some paint at SW and the subject of spilled paint came up.Said this one woman get can and they want to put it in the trunk, but she said no and put in on the front seat. New high end car.I don't have to tell you what happened the first time she stopped..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
I understand it is enforced by the same department that handles the tags on mattresses and pillows.Be very careful, they use black helicopters too... ;o
TFB (Bill)
A follow-up, talked to manager at SW this morning, they agreed to cover the money I spent at the car wash and the detailer's invoice.
Dan
Yup! Metallic red flamed and lowered pick up. Puke yellow paint for a trailer project. Set it in the back and drove to the shop. Made it a block. Went back and got another gallon of paint and an extra gallon of cheap reducer. Spent the next hour or so cleaning the bed. DanT
I'd never put paint in the car without being sure it's braced somehow so it can't turn over.
dry ice and a very stiff brush...
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Dan... hate to break the news to you but the paint cans were in your care and controll. Unless when you went back to SW all the cans of paint were exploding on the shelf....You screwed up... bite the bullet.
Edited 6/22/2008 9:21 pm ET by sledgehammer
Sounds like you used your car as a work truck and now it looks like a work truck.
My work truck had a can of spray paint explode in the back. Actually it got punctured when I tossed some kind of tool back there. The other day a tube of subfloor adhesive leaked out about 1/2 way into the bed liner. Etc, etc, etc.
Join the club. Either that, or hire a turn key painter next time? Did you save some money by going to get the paint?
yep it sucks... car still works... (meant to say it happened to me... multiple times back bumper has paint caked all over). When I open the trunk people laugh...
Edited 6/22/2008 10:03 pm ET by bc
Never spilled paint in the trunk. But ... my little brother, when he was about 12-12, dropped a gallon of paint in Walmart and it exploded pretty badly. Hydrsaulic pressure popped the lid and splorked the paint all over the floor and shelves. He tried to walk out with an innocent look.
And someone I know, but who will remain nameless, set a new gallon of paint on the concrete driveway and forgot about it until about 2 hours later when he tried to drive off, and ran over the paint wiht the Silverado. Still finding spots on the top of the cab, nevere mind the wheel wells. Fortunatley it isn't too much different than the color of the truck.
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Ya live and ya learn. I just got my first paint spill in my shiny clean work van a few months ago. White paint on a black, textured, rubber floor liner. I haven't cleaned it up yet, waiting till I do a clean and detail on it some weekend. It's a work van so I'm not too concerned. But I learned. Never again will I just set a paint (or anything else) can on the floor without blocking or strapping it in.
Good luck getting it cleaned up.
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goof off works good as i found out last winter when a can of paint was kicked over on a job site by a x husband of a client onto the new laminate & stone floor also hitting the velour love seat
only problem was a few weeks later we discovered her weed plants were dying froom the goof off fumes we figured out ( ps it was a legal grow operation) also husband got to spend most of the night in jail