Nissan Develops Self-Repairing Paint

[Variance]

NISSAN DEVELOPS WORLD'S FIRST CLEAR PAINT
THAT REPAIRS SCRATCHES ON CAR SURFACES


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.

The water-repellant paint also has a higher resistance to scratches compared with conventional clear paints. A vehicle painted with “Scratch Guard Coat” will have only one-fifth the abrasions caused by a car-washing machine compared with a car covered with conventional clear paint. Scratches from car-washing machines account for the majority of scratches to painted car surfaces.

“Scratch Guard Coat” is effective for about three years.

“Scratch Guard Coat” will be applied for the first time on an SUV model that is scheduled for a partial makeover in the near future. The paint will be applied to the car’s chassis, bumpers, door mirrors, among other parts.


Car painted with “Scratch Guard Coat”:

New scratches



One week later



Link: http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/NEWS/2005/...51202-01-e.html

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This could really eliminate fears of dark paint maintainance.

[Croc]

GM needs to ape this...

[pow]

Very nice... as nice as black cars look when they're clean, they're a PITA to maintain. This should help with the swirl marks and spiderwebbing.

[Nick]

Car painted with “Scratch Guard Coat”:

New scratches



One week later

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Cool idea, but just for a quick continuity check...supposedly these are a week apart, but they look like exactly the same pictures...exactly the same lighting, exactly the same angle and positioning, exactly the same everything, except of course for the scratches...

[Variance]

Cool idea, but just for a quick continuity check...supposedly these are a week apart, but they look like exactly the same pictures...exactly the same lighting, exactly the same angle and positioning, exactly the same everything, except of course for the scratches...

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Yeah, it could be a computer touch-up or maybe they just had a studio set-up and left it as it was for a week. At any rate, it'd be interesting to see a time-lapse video of this.

[BrewSwillis]

Reminds me of this stuff:




I love the commercials for it too. They show a scratched car, then the rub this stuff on it......then they show you how the car looked before they scratched it......Brilliant!!!

[Flybrian]

Is this done in response to the crappy paint quality in Nissan's own US factories?

[AAS]

“Scratch Guard Coat” is effective for about three years.

And then what happens? The obvious answer is: the clear coat will begin to show scratches. But... does it also mean that the clearcoat will lose its elasticity and begin to crack? Then would you have to repaint the car every three years?

It is very interesting, and it would be something very appealing if it works as well as it sounds.

[Teh Ricer Civic!]

the sun's reflection looks a bit more intense in the 2nd picuture so maybe they just left it...