Have been painting cars myself for over 15 yrs, and have many friends in the auto repair and bodywork businesses. Cant actually picture what you are describing and have seen a lot of messed up paint jobs from all sorts of issues. Normally either it wasnt prepped correctly, filler is too thick, rust underneath is coming through, paint additives chosen incorreclty, etc... but you make it sound like it is all over the car? Is it in the base coat or the clear? Is it all over the car or only where there was significant work? Any way to send a pic? Anybody in the autobody field might have an idea, but a pic is worth a thousand words. How long has it been since it was painted, and was there work done, and what was done to it? just a paint job, or other work from someone else too?, etc., etc... Pics would help a lot. Amost sounds like you have a recent paint job and during curing the solvents are still escaping through the upper coats? Luke 2 friends who won body shops B & T Roddick <1roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : > We store our "classics" under covers and in a car port over Winter. > Yesterday I went out to check on them and when I pulled the cover off one of > them I find a large percentage of the car's paint has what looks like > widely disbursed "goosebumps", not pointed but domed like water beads. I > pressed down on a few with my finger nail, but they do not compress or > break. > > Any paint gurus out there have a clue what this could be? We have had the > car for a little over a year, it was repainted a few years ago. It is an > Ohio car transplanted to Washington State last Fall. > > Bill & Tami Roddick > > >