Nissan’s New Paint that Automatically Repairs Scratches

Do you remember how you felt when you first saw the first scratch in your first car? Not exactly something you'd like to feel again, isn’t it? It would even make some initially feel that they want to sue the person who caused the scratch.

A car's outer appearance is always important. The first thing that will be noticed is a car's paint. If there's a scratch on the surface, you would have to spend time to look for quality paint and materials, and spend time to do the entire job. And, the worse part is that the process would be repeated again, if you manage to get your car scratched over and over.

Well looks like a solution to your woes has just been invented…

Nissan Motor Co. is proud to introduce their latest development, the “fluid finish” technology, a new exterior paint that will automatically repair itself if it gets scratched. (Cool!) But, take note; we aren’t talking about major scratches here, only the light ones.

Maybe most of you are curious of how it works. The technology sounds simple, but then, it is a little more complicated than what you expect it. The paint has a unique clearcoat layer containing an elastic resin. And, the resin makes the most significance, since it retains fluidity for about three years into your car’s life, which eventually allow the coating to flow back into shape erasing minor scratches. And, it’s not instant. It takes about few hours to few days to fully remove a scratch, depending upon air temperature levels and the severity of damage done to the affected area.

Nissan’s first North American application will be on the new 2008 Infiniti EX35 set to be launched late December this year. Originally however, the technology has already been introduced in 2005. That time, it was under the name “scratch guard”, which is currently used on Japanese –market X-Trail.

The upcoming EX35 will be competing in the rapid growing compact luxury segment with Acura’s RDX, BMW’X3 and Land Rover’s LR2 as its rivals. And, many other companies are looking forward to join, too. However, none other offers self-repairing paint. But, such technology doesn’t put the Nissan EX35 on top, since the other models would be equipped with high-technology features that are much pleasing to the customers. Nissan just have to put some more for the model to fully flourish.