Paint Bubbling Wet vs Dry storage

Do you store your Emira inside or outside where rain can get on and in the car?

  • I store my car Outside with no cover

    Votes: 9 23.7%
  • I store my car Inside (cover on or off doesn't matter)

    Votes: 26 68.4%
  • My bubbling is on the door

    Votes: 10 26.3%
  • My bubbling is oon the trunk lid

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • My bubbling is on both, the door and trunk?

    Votes: 2 5.3%
  • My bubbling on my the Hood or bonnet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't have any bubbling

    Votes: 21 55.3%
  • I bought my car new

    Votes: 18 47.4%
  • i bought my car used

    Votes: 4 10.5%
  • I replaced my doors

    Votes: 5 13.2%
  • I replaced my trunk lid

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Since replacing my doors No more bubbling

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Since replacing my trunk lid No more bubbling

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Since replacing my doors I have bubbling again

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Since replacing my trunk lid I have bubbling again

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    38
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Hypothesis: Is car stored inside or outside where water can affect the paint.
My theory is that you will have more bubbling if rain Doesn't drain out and moisture penetrates. And if you car is always dry then there shouldn't be any bubbling.
Understand that the car came from England, where it rains alot. If some cars were left outside then the process of rain in the car would have started the unnoticeable bubbling process before it's arrival to you. So don't expect that you should have not gotten any bubbling if your car was always stored inside, but lets what the final poll shows us.
If your car has bubbling anywhere other than what is listed on the poll, let us know
 
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Car manufacturer can’t make a car that’s suitable for rain?

It’s one thing having a bad batch of items from a supplier but entirely another if you can’t sort the issue out after a number of years and when it’s costing the business 100’s of thousands of pounds.
 
I changed voting so those of who voted can now select some of the other choices. Please change your vote to revote for more than one choice.
 
Your poll only works if data collected from owners who had their car from new as people who bought used have no idea how the previous owner stored it. Then, used dealers will pretty much always leave the cars outside while on sale so I'd guess that all trade car sales will have sat outside for a period of time. I wont answer the poll because while I personally store the car inside, it was on a forecourt for weeks/months and also has blistering doors so it would give you bad data. Perhaps you could create options for bought new vs bought used to split the results, although I suspect the sample size is going to be too small to achieve any statistical significance.

You my also want a "Doors replaced" option too.
 
Your poll only works if data collected from owners who had their car from new as people who bought used have no idea how the previous owner stored it. Then, used dealers will pretty much always leave the cars outside while on sale so I'd guess that all trade car sales will have sat outside for a period of time. I wont answer the poll because while I personally store the car inside, it was on a forecourt for weeks/months and also has blistering doors so it would give you bad data. Perhaps you could create options for bought new vs bought used to split the results, although I suspect the sample size is going to be too small to achieve any statistical significance.

You my also want a "Doors replaced" option too.
More options added
 
Hypothesis: Is car stored inside or outside where water can affect the paint.
My theory is that you will have more bubbling if rain Doesn't drain out and moisture penetrates. And if you car is always dry then there shouldn't be any bubbling.
Understand that the car came from England, where it rains alot. If some cars were left outside then the process of rain in the car would have started the unnoticeable bubbling process before it's arrival to you. So don't expect that you should have not gotten any bubbling if your car was always stored inside, but lets what the final poll shows us.
If your car has bubbling anywhere other than what is listed on the poll, let us know
Just to throw a bit of a spanner in the works, front panels are also composite but from a different manufacturer and to date no problems reported. This points to the process at fault and not in or out of rain.
 
Just to throw a bit of a spanner in the works, front panels are also composite but from a different manufacturer and to date no problems reported. This points to the process at fault and not in or out of rain.
I agree, but exposure to moisture could be what triggers the bubbling, even though it's not the root cause.
 

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