Found this while surfing a trade website... Looks interesting.

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

 

Now we some guinea pigs to try it out. Hmmmmm

 

Hmmm, interesting. Anybody know how this would be possible?

SL

 

I will believe it when I see it

 

That is to cool.

 

That's my stance as well... definitely a neat idea though.

I still wonder what it'll be like to work on... seems like the paint would almost have to 'flow' to achieve this characteristic. That being said, it must be ULTRA SOFT and would be susceptible to scratches and scuffs from VERY minor things... hard to say though.

I'm interested in seeing it in action... that's for sure.

RP

 

"I donwanna try it."

"Me neither."

"Hey, let's get Mikey, he likes anything!"

 

2 things here

1) Car washing equipment of any quality doesn't do that. The "spider webbing" effect they are showing is caused by multiple things, one simply being contaminants in the air as you drive 70MPH down the highway. I really get pissed off when I see some moron write something like that, because it gives the industry a bad name. I have cars I have been washing for 5 years through a machine that has not mark one on them, and they don't have "super paint" on them that miracously "heals" itself

2) I, much like RP, find it hard to believe that a paint soft enough to correct itself wouldn't be highly susceptible to scratches from the lightest of contact. I'd like to see what happend to a rock chip that was caused by some debris at 80MPH from the interstate with this system.

 

I concur 98Navi... the way that their article is written is very poor. They pin nearly all scuffs or similar blemishes on machine washes where, in reality, it's probably not even a minor portion of blemishes that are on vehicles today.

Sure, the old style 'nylon bristled' spinning brush types of washes are detrimental to a finish of any caliber (we all know this) but, there are reputable washes out there that don't feature such monsters and do a good job...

Hear Ye... Hear Ye... let it be known on this eleventh day of December two-thousand and five of the year of our lord that Navi98's car washing establishment shall not be utilized to scuff paint so that it may repair itself.

RP

 

They have self-healing indoor gun range walls. They have self-healing cutting mats. Self-healing auto paint is a logical next step.