More Poppings

From just the boot and roof, now it spreads to the bonnet. More poppings on the clearcoat layer on the Accord now. By talking to a few automotive paint industrial professionals, it's confirmed that it's considered as solvent popping problem. How did this happen? Most likely due to hardener or reducer problem. As mentioned before, local mass production cars do not really adhere to strict quality control. Layers of paint being sprayed over each other without waiting for a proper flash off time. These tiny pimples are the result of solvent being pushed to the clearcoat surface. Don't be surprised, I saw the same problem on CKD Mercedes too. Quite a number of S-Class, E-Class and C-Class in Daimler Chrysler have this problem. CKD Mercedes has PPG coatings. How about Honda? Yes, if I'm not wrong, could be using PPG as well. The 5 year old Iswara at home also has PPG coatings, and there are countless of poppings on the surface too. If you're as particular as I am, and face the same problem, I would suggest you to either:

1) Live with it, continue to perform regular paintwork maintenance and accept a certain level of surface imperfections.

2) Repaint the car with good quality paint by skilled painters.

3) Sell the car and get a car with BASF (Glasurit) paintwork. (e.g. CKD Ford, CBU Mercedes, CBU BMW, etc...)