TOKYO (Dec. 2, 2005)-- Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., has developed the world’s first clear paint that repairs scratches on painted car surfaces, including scratches from car-washing machines, off-road driving and fingernails.

“Scratch Guard Coat” contains a newly developed high elastic resin that helps prevent scratches from affecting the inner layers of a car’s painted surface. With “Scratch Guard Coat” a car’s scratched surface will return to its original state anywhere from one day to a week, depending on temperature and the depth of the scratch.

Full article at http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/NEWS...1202-01-e.html


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Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. And for only 450 bucks not a bad investment at all. I'd be surprised if every auto maker moved towards this technology. Nissan FTW!

 

http://www.forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=443681

Semi But still good stuff.

 

thats some photoshop at work right there..

 

Or they changed the angle in which the light was coming in .... AKA "swirl marks"

 

if true, that would certainly be a 180-degree turnaround from the current paint used on the maxima, which chips and scratches if somebody gives it a dirty look or some wind hits it

 

Oops i searched for it but i guess its my fault for not looking further. Either way, I was reading up on it, and what I can gather is that the paint (or the clear) has little microcapsules that are filled with paint, and when a scratch punctures them (which is what a scratch is), they let the paint out, filling the scratch. Not sure if it would work to perfection like that, but definately a cool concept. I wonder if the dealers will let us scratch up their cars to test it...

 

pretty soon if u get into fender benders the mechanic will say it needs some bed rest.. well rather garage rest.. and bam fixed it self in a week.. and then freakin terminator **** is gonna start happening..

 

next they will be making the sides of the maxima out of the plastic they use on saturns

 

dirty look. It is true though.

 

Its like one of those blue inks that you can throw on a shirt and it just doesn't mess up your shirt but turns into water... old kindergarten stuff (not the paint)

 

thank you, I thought I was going loco. I knew I posted in this thread, er in the non-repost one anyway..... Merge!