Poll for Those with Paint Blistering / Bubbling Defect

[kchildre]

Apparently the pictures don’t do it justice… it’s definitely paint separating from the bumper cover (I suspect moisture underneath the paint). I first thought it was the PPF coming off and used a wet squegee in an attempt to smooth it out. The bubbles do respond (move around) to the squeegee, but it’s definitely the paint (and not PPF). The missing paint flaked out from behind the PPF when I was attempting to smooth it out… Definitely not something that hit the bumper.

 

[gcmak]

Apparently the pictures don’t do it justice… it’s definitely paint separating from the bumper cover (I suspect moisture underneath the paint). I first thought it was the PPF coming off and used a wet squegee in an attempt to smooth it out. The bubbles do respond (move around) to the squeegee, but it’s definitely the paint (and not PPF). The missing paint flaked out from behind the PPF when I was attempting to smooth it out… Definitely not something that hit the bumper.

Honestly what I think I see in your pics is something I've seen on a few Emiras who have had PPF applied to their rear bumpers but the installers cut the ppf directly on the car - which is fine if they know how to only score the film - but unfortunately they sliced through to the paint and then the paint flakes off on the edge not covered by the PPF.

Perhaps that's not your case but I think I see a fairly squiggly PPF line - which is what took me down the hand cutting path.

Either way that's a bummer, but if the installer did damage, at least you can have them cover a new resprayed bumper for you!