Self-healing paint helps drivers out of a scrape
The Times December 03, 2005, TOKYO:....Within a few hours of the damage occurring, the paint will start to re-form itself over the scratch, and by morning the mark should have disappeared.
The Scratch Guard Coat comes courtesy of the car group Nissan, and will soon be making its debut on the notoriously narrow and scratch-prone roads of Japan. The Japanese company will be offering the special paint as an option on its X-Trail SUV before deciding whether to use the product on its range of cars.
The paint will be offered to customers prepared to pay an extra 52,500 yen (�251) on top of the standard price of the X-Trail, and its makers claim that it will continue to work for about three years...more...
