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Below is an image of the interior trim bubbling I mentioned. Not the greatest pic as I was against the sun, but you can see what I'm talking about. I wonder if anyone else has this in their Kizashi. Mine started in late 2018.

Oof. That looks weird. I’ve had the same problem now that I see what you mean, but I didn’t know it was the same problem. In my case it’s only around the shifter; I figured that had a silver layer adhered to the plastic, and the other silver trim on the dash was actually silver colored plastic.

Not sure why this happened around the shifter and nowhere else. I saw the damage on the bottom when I first checked out my future car almost four years ago, and I thought it was from the previous owner’s abuse, like the abraded leather on the steering wheel and etc. There's a little spot higher up that I noticed only tonight; I think that’s more recent.

None of my four did that.

WESHOOT2 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:15 pm None of my four did that.

I believe it's related to the heat. While those of us in the Southwest don't have to worry about rust, we have sun damage to worry about like this.

Forgot to add that my bubbling is year-round, not seasonal . In my case it may be from physical effects and not temperature. Although how exactly you physically get the trim to bubble up like this, I’m not sure. Maybe harsh cleaning solutions, cleaning equipment, or techniques can cause it, too.

KlutzNinja wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:32 pm Forgot to add that my bubbling is year-round, not seasonal . In my case it may be from physical effects and not temperature. Although how exactly you physically get the trim to bubble up like this, I’m not sure. Maybe harsh cleaning solutions, cleaning equipment, or techniques can cause it, too.

The bubbling on my dash trim is certainly related to heat. The bubbles go away when the interior of the vehicle is quite hot like parked in the summer time. The problem is that the bubbles reappear once the vehicle interior cools down. I think what happened is that the adhesive has weakened over time due to heat and won't properly adhere the trim coating to the plastic beneath when the coating hardens from cooling.
The manual shifter base is largely a synthetic leather boot so no worries about trim pieces there.

Yet another perk of having a manual transmission Kizashi