Nissan designs an Elastic Coating

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I dont know who actually reads Car/Driver, but there was an article on a paint covering designed by Nissan that actually repairs itself. Sunlight and warm water seem to repair slight scratching as long as does not move onto or below the clearcoat. It appears to be elastic and works on the same principle as skin regeneration. Seems cool ... any thoughts !
 
Very interesting. For me, as long as it worked and looks good I say I'm all for it! :)
 
Yeah I 've seen that come up before in the NissanClub forums. Thats great to hear considering I'm one of many who arn't pleased with Nissan's paint jobs.
 
Mike T said:
Yeah I 've seen that come up before in the NissanClub forums. Thats great to hear considering I'm one of many who arn't pleased with Nissan's paint jobs.
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I had a 2001 Maxima SE/AE Special Edition. Sold it one year later as the highway traveling literally chipped off alot of the paint on front cap. So I can sympathize.

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I just can't understand it. I can see cheaper parts under the hood, but cheap paint jobs, that's just evil. Although I think if I knew this when I was shopping the car I still would have bought it.
 
Mike T said:
I just can't understand it. I can see cheaper parts under the hood, but cheap paint jobs, that's just evil. Although I think if I knew this when I was shopping the car I still would have bought it.
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My father is now the GM of a local Nissan dealer (sold the Buick franchise after 30 years), and although it might sound biased, they have a very full line and nice product mix. I can tell you that our gripes about paint have been heard, but dont know how they will repair.
 
ASk him if they will fix my hood? It looks like the clearcoat if failing in tiny areas.
 
Mike T said:
ASk him if they will fix my hood? It looks like the clearcoat if failing in tiny areas.
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Call Nissan's tech line, seems they are "trying" to be very customer service savoy these days. They might send you to a dealer, but should be warrantied under the bumper to bumper.
 
All I could find was Nissans Consumer Affairs #
I few months back I took my car to our local dealership and and the service manager took some quick pics and then blew me off. Thier is no way he took quality shots showing the problem.
 
Squeaky Wheels Get the Grease .... dont let it go. Email Nissan, call Nissan, call the dealer. Trust me you will receive satisfaction. Use BBB as a last resort, always gets their -EDIT- in the wringer.
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
Squeaky Wheels Get the Grease ....
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lmao. My next resort was calling. I was blown off my the local dealership. The dealership I bought the car at is in Ft. Myers and I work 6 days a week. I don't want to drive up their for nothing.
 
I think I read about this stuff awhile back. The problem with it is that it wears off after awhile. I think after like 2 years or something like that. I need to dig up wherever I read that info at. It was over on DetailCity I think.

Personally I'm against giving people a car that has a paint job that will have the top coat of whatever wear off after 2 years. All it is going to do is jack up the price and kill the owner on depreciation after it wears off. It's a gimmick that I'll go out on a limb and predict that it won't catch on.
 
OCDetails said:
I think I read about this stuff awhile back. The problem with it is that it wears off after awhile. I think after like 2 years or something like that. I need to dig up wherever I read that info at. It was over on DetailCity I think.

Personally I'm against giving people a car that has a paint job that will have the top coat of whatever wear off after 2 years. All it is going to do is jack up the price and kill the owner on depreciation after it wears off. It's a gimmick that I'll go out on a limb and predict that it won't catch on.
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http://www.caranddriver.com/dailyautoinsider/10408/nissan-develops-self-healing-paint.html

yes the magazine casually left the 3 year protection off. Now if it was reinstallable that might impress. Considering where paint sealants have gone already, is some technology like this far off however ??
 
Who needs stuff like that when we have NuFinish and it's fantastic protection and durablitly? ;) How about PermaPlate and every other stealership installed paint protection? lolI just don't see how what Nissan is trying to do is different other than the fact that they are making something that you probably can't polish unless you want to risk removing whatever they are putting on the paint. As a detailer I am concerned about what this product will do to the industry. I may just have to stop detailing late model Nissans if I am going to have to deal with possibly removing some sort of protective coating that the owner paid extra for.
 
I went to walmart yesterday to find some mitts and a lady grabed a bottle of NF like it was going out of style. I thought of bigron62 and had to smile :) ..
 
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