Valspar Paint Sucks! Door Moldings Painted

[12guns]

I have a white 2k LC. The door moldings have dings and the normal faded center stripe. I painted dark grey metallic on the fender molding only which looked GREAT until the wife pointed out it now didn't match the bumpers!!
I found a "satin nickel" metallic that Valspar makes that is a VERY close match to the silverish/goldish front and rear bumper. I got the driver's side done today but must say the Valspar paint sucks badly! Horrible trigger and seems to spew out a thick uneven coat of paint.
Rustoleum is much much better. Auto paints are fine too, but for the plastic moldings the cheaper brands work great and stick to darn near anything.
So if anyone is planning to paint moldins, stay away from Valspar!!!
Having said that mine turned out ok, but it wasn't easy to get a few light coats like it is with higher quality rattle can. I'll post pics when I can. Looks better w/o all the door dings they used to have!!

 

[ENGINE er]

Stick with high quality paint and be sure to sand/prep well.

Painted my mouldings with duplicolor perfect match toyota white, followed by duplicolor clear.

sanded-masked-3 coats color-3 coats clear

My mouldings wick water and accept wax like a champ. Honestly withstand trail pin stripe like the factory paint and match the white PERFECT.

dont like gold and ARB/Slee bumpers coming soon.

 

[12guns]

Your looks nice, but I wanted to go with the orginal color, or dark grey. Since the wife didn't like the dark grey, I found this valspar color that matches very well. I did the prep work, and sanded down all the door dings. I put a couple light coats of the Valspar and two -three coats of dupli color clear. The valspar comes out soooo fast and sloppy I had to move fast. Overall it turned out well. I'll snap some pics today.

 

[12guns]

pics

Before:

 

[12guns]

Notice the slightly darker fender molding. That is from the dark grey I tested. I may need another coat in the future to lighten it up a bit, but it's close enough for me!
I'm happy with the results, now I need to get the other side done!

 

[ENGINE er]

yours doesnt look bad, cant notice the difference.

but duplicolor makes their perfect match in that color as well.

 

[12guns]

What is the Duplicolor code that matches well? I didn't do much homework, just found what I though to be a close match by memory at Lowes. I'm happy with it, but might be more happy with Duplicolor.