Paint on new Patrol

sounds like you may need to look a little harder..

Self healing clear coat?

Pity Isuzu didn't use it.

Just cost me a packet to trick up the Jack. The clear coat had "broken down" and the roof and bonnet were largely white, instead of blue.

The repairer used paint sourced from Germany. Reckons the Japanese paint that Isuzu used (on mine at least) was crap.

Now, I'm happy to be seen with Jack again.

All they need now is a self healing engine

Cheers
Greg:)

hi there,
good news is that u dont have any scratches after your bush run
bad news is that your vehicle and all vehicles in australia does not have this self healing paint.only in japan
well at least you can say the paint work on your patrol is done perfect

SOunds better than my Nav, really like my Nav but think Nissan really cheaped out on the duco..

This is another urban myth. I did a trip early in the year which resulted in severe scratching, dints and all manner of things hanging off the car.

I waited three weeks for the self healing process to kick in. You can imagine my surprise when this didn't happen. Why modern car manufactures are not addressing the following issues amazes me:

1. Self healing suspension components
2. Self healing panel damage
3. Self healing engines
4. Self healing drink frig
5, Self healing my wallet

To be quite blunt, I'm not going to buy another Toyota until 11am tomorrow morning. Hopeless car!

Regards

Kim

If you do get surface scratches on the sides of your nice new vehicle (as I did) try this stuff
Meguiars
It works real good and with a minimum of elbow grease.
I have had a lot of gravel rash on the front of the rear wheel arches. Unfortunately no cutting will ever fix it. The "Chips Away" man will though. I did use the latex protective paint on this area but it got wet and came off after going through a few puddles.
I watched an old video at our club meeting the other night and one joker covered the entire sides of his brand new vehicle with clear Contact (plastic book cover stuff). Apparently it worked OK.

Kingo

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You all need a can of Chopper's "harden-the-f@ck-up"!!!
Scratches and dents are there to show the toorak-tractor mob that we actually use our rigs!

That may be true except I lease my vehicles through my own business for tax reasons and turn them over every 4 years so getting a good re-sale value is very important. Lots of dents and scratches may be good for the ego but very poor for resale value.