Imagine that you get a scratch in your beautiful brand new majestic blue Nissan Armada. The shopping cart hell found in front of most grocery stores is your worst nightmare. But soon you won’t worry about that scratch, because in 2005 Nissan announced that they had enginereered a self-healing paint that will actually fill back in the scratch overnight, or in a matter of days. The paint is an elastic, urethane-based resin, that acts more like “wet glue than dry paint”. Heat from the sun or warm water helps speed along the ‘healing’ process. We could see new self healing paint on new Nissan models in the US sometime soon. It debuted in Japan in December of 2005 on the Nissan X-Trail model. Read more: Nissan press Release, Scratch Guard Overview,