*NEW* Coating makes scratches disappear

[kLuMzi]

http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1268/coating-makes-scratches-disappear

hope they'll sell it cheap urhmm.. i mean affordable :blush

[casperwonder]

Nice find. I would like to buy one too.

[vlad5434]

ya i read about this i wanna get some would help lots....

[3GFX]

We all know this will cost a ton to be done to a car at first. This won't become affordable or standardized on cars for at least another five to ten years if it actually works.

[kaval]

Guess I should throw in the towel eh? lol

[thefish]

Sounds highly theoretical to me. A lot like nanotechnology...

[Darkfrosty7]

wow good find. makes sense too. i want some!

[froggy]

Sounds highly theoretical to me. A lot like nanotechnology...

lol??? did you read the article it's basically polyurathane impregnated with the protien from shellfish shells. no little microscopic robots. It should be actually fairly cheap and easy to produce commercially considering how much seafood is processed worldwide, most of it gets ground up and is used as fertilizer or as fish food. and is pretty much as cheap as dirt.

[thefish]

froggy... you're right. I guess I didn't read very carefully... lol.

[5_Alive]

Nissan introduced this as a concept item. There was a min-article on it in one of the Car & Driver magazines I have, in the Blog section somewhere. I forget which issue it is.
I'll try to find it sometime this week so I can scan it and post it up.

They compared it to your skin, when you wake up its sometimes wrinkly and whatnot, then as you go about, your skin heals out and goes back to normal.

[b]

^ I remember reading that article too. Few years back I believe...

[sas]

One of these articles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article745093.ece

In 2008, Nissan already have done Infiniti with this paint.
Its seems to me ,with this paint all is not so simply. I'd be happy to have my car painted
by ordinal polyurethane but we have the water born paints. The paint has plusses at scratch viewpoint,
apparently there is minuses too.
Its early to sit back ,Kaval. Someone has to pull up an ingrown beetles.

[3GFX]

froggy... you're right. I guess I didn't read very carefully... lol.


Its funny because your name's "thefish".

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[thefish]

Its funny because your name's "thefish".

:gone

Oh no, I just drink a lot :chuckle

[ghostdog]

it's a one time deal meaning if the area is scratched a second time it won't self-heal and also they haven't tested (or want to release) the effective area of self-healing... meaning if the scratch is too wide then it won't heal properly... the next generations of this tech will only get better...

[jaybird]

"Obviously, this is one of the drawbacks," he said, adding that the chances are low of having two scratches in exactly the same spot.

I'm not sure how much I agree with this statement. First thing that comes to my mind is my experience working at the Honda Manufacturing plant in Alliston, ON.

There were major problems with defects caused by scratches from belt buckles.

Of course these scratches would reoccur in relatively the same spots everytime. (unless you hit a growth spurt overnight)

Overall it looks like a fairly promising product though.

[MistaChin]

Overall it looks like a fairly promising product though.

Hopefully not as promising as the electronic rust module lol