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Paint malfunction? by Glasgow_Panoramic, on Flickr

 

This is the boot spoiler of my Corsa which I painted and lacquered with rattle cans 3 years ago. Only today, I noticed this. I would have thought that this sort of thing would happen fairly quickly if I'd made a mistake when preparing and painting, not after 3 years. I'm not overly bothered as I've never been that happy with the job and I have some spare paint to redo it but I thought that this was a bit strange. All suggestions if a Janet and John nature especially welcome.

[fordperv]

Shit lacquer?

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I'm hoping it is as that'll be a lot easier to sort than shit primer!

[Station]

It looks like paint chips? I had a proper painter do a grille of mine and it looked like Robbie of Eastenders within a month.

[overrun]

They look like moisture blisters.

 

KRAZY SHIT AFTA SO LONG

[Split_Pin]

How do they happen? Can I do something to stop them when I paint it again?

[Station]

Paint at 12pm, make sure surface is completely dry (use those surface wipes before hand).

[trigger]

It looks like moisture under the lacquer to me, flat it back with some 800 grit wet and dry and start again.

[Ratdat]

What Trig says. Definitely looks like microblisters from moisture under the lacquer.You need to make sure you are painting in a reasonably warm environment with low humidity. 

[Split_Pin]

If we (ever!) get a dry day I'll sand it back and have another go then. 3 years isn't bad I suppose for what was a home spray job.

 

Thanks chaps.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Good work you appear to have achieved the standard to be a Mercedes factory painter circa 2001, my wife's CLK cab hast he same stylish effect on the plastic windscreen pillar covers,at least I hope they're covers.

[Danblez]

I painted a wing recently and on the final coat of clear the can started spitting out what looked like small blobs of water. I didn't think you got moisture coming out of cans?!