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Has anyone had issues with their new Navaras getting scratches extremely easy ? Someone has mentioned there maybe an issue of paint being too thin and not having a good coat of lawyer.
My black Nav is 5 months old and it's getting light scratches to the primer outta the blue .
 
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Yes, my White Tekna paint is unbelievably thin. The garden hose rubbed the paint off when I rinsed the roof after cleaning it. Door sills have already worn to the cream undercoat. I've only had it since October ?

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freemansteve said:
Nope, the polish is a few microns thick and just makes the paint underneath shinier, but will protect it from sunlight and chemicals up to a point....
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In the past, I've found taking care with my vehicles, and keeping them clean and polished, the paint work has stood the test of time.
This is even when I've taken them green laning, as long as I don't go through any thick undergrowth.

And one of my previous green-laners was a Dacia, which are the cheapest of the cheap, with only a colour coat and thin lacquer.

It all depends how far you push your truck.
 
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A friend of mine that is a car painter by profession told me that my np300 has an antiscratch lacquer on it and thats why you get those scratch look lines on the paint.He got them easily off with a light polish rub in 5 minutes

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pathfinder said:
A friend of mine that is a car painter by profession told me that my np300 has an antiscratch lacquer on it and thats why you get those scratch look lines on the paint.He got them easily off with a light polish rub in 5 minutes

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I have definitely seen some scratches that look like grey primer that have rubbed off.

I also have some scratches down to grey primer.
 
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Japanese paint is, as a rule, known to be soft. My black D40 is a typical example. Whereas German is rock hard. If you have the time and patience, you could protect the paint with a ceramic coating. The paint work needs to be as perfect as possible. I applied a Gteniq coating to my mums Golf. I can't vouch for how much protection it adds, however cleaning is much easier, you can scratch off dried on dead bugs & dry bird muck rubs off with a tissue.

There is a professional product that is so hard that if applied incorrectly, has to be wet sanded off.

You could also try the 3M spray on film coating on high wear areas, like door sills.
 
Discussion starter · #15 ·
Been to Nissan they have gone over the truck and tested the thickness of paint and it's about right, he said it's because it's painted in a non solvent based paint and clear coat is the same. The amount they spray on car is also reduced, they same amount of spray the old d40 had on one door is about the same as the whole np300 gets and it's not as hard , the car has scrapes marks nail marks on door handles . Bring black it's awful and it's only 5 months old and looks as bad as my 10 yr old d40 was which had seen 179k miles.
So waiting for three reply from warranty
 
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Quite Scary Productions said:
Been to Nissan they have gone over the truck and tested the thickness of paint and it's about right, he said it's because it's painted in a non solvent based paint and clear coat is the same. The amount they spray on car is also reduced, they same amount of spray the old d40 had on one door is about the same as the whole np300 gets and it's not as hard , the car has scrapes marks nail marks on door handles . Bring black it's awful and it's only 5 months old and looks as bad as my 10 yr old d40 was which had seen 179k miles.
So waiting for three reply from warranty
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This is a crock, solvent paints haven't been used in YEARS!
i was painting with water base over 10 years ago, and never had an issue with "soft" or "thin" paint...
it is true that manufacturers have been skimping on the paint for a while now though, but thick or thin - it shouldn't be soft.

I would get the truck professionally cut and polished (if its black, go for 3 stage... cut, polish and glaze, to avoid swirl marks) then get a decent professional coating such as diamond bright or similar. This should help the issue, but you will need to stay on top of it with cleaning, waxing etc.

HTH
 
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