Looking for advice with top surface pitting...

[Accumulator]

Originally Posted by jfelbab

To me, that looks like a condition called pinholing or solvent boiling. It's an effect in the paint that leave s small pinholes of gas in the paint..

That's what I meant by "solvent pop". The weird thing on the M3 was that it wasn't there until I compounded off a certain amount of clear.

Originally Posted by SuperBee364

Does this look similar to what would happen if you applied an LSP too early to a freshly applied clear coat?

I've never heard of anything like that from premature LSPing The only thing I've ever heard of is the paint not attaining max potential hardness. *AFAIK* (and don't take that *too* far ) this is the sort of thing people *worry* about even though it doesn't actually *happen*.

These are pretty "big bubbles" given the context, not the sort of thing "outgassing" brings to (my) mind by a long shot.

[SuperBee364]

Good to hear, as I'm approaching the three month point on the clear coat on the wife's SUV, and I don't know how much longer I can hold out; I just gotta have my LSP test vehicle back.

BTW, Accumulator, that's very cool that you taught programming. I taught myself C and Pascal on the Macintosh. Wrote a few utilities for the Mac, and did some beta testing for Symantec's old Mac development environment, as well as Norton Utilities for Macintosh. All of the Mac toolbox's documentation was written in Pascal, so I can read it, but have problems actually writing in it. It's been years since I've written any code, though, cause I switched to the PC and haven't bothered learning how to program for it.

[Accumulator]

SuperBee364- Yeah, my programming skill-set is hopelessly obsolete now, and I don't do much with the PCs these days.

IIRC Accumulatorette (who taught in the same dept., that's how we met) taught C and Pascal.