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But you can’t possibly know anything without first hand experience...

Then this is a completely different matter altogether. You were blatantly mis-sold a product that doesn't actually exist and I suggest you seek legal advice. Now, as for this; You clearly have no idea what my experience, knowledge or level of research is. You are correct in that I have a lot to say though, so well done you. The fact that you "bought the stuff" is not a qualification, it lends nothing towards knowledge of any product. I do not have shares the company. I am not protective. You've come on here throwing your toys out of your pram based on wildly inaccurate assumptions, supposedly based on you "research" (which now seems to amass to little more than paying for it...). Your assumptions are incorrect and you are expecting a product to do something it will never do. Like a child you're blaming Nissan for that rather than learning what you should be expecting and basing your complaint on facts rather than assumptions. I don't know how people can claim to have extensive knowledge of a product or can claim expertise simply by buying a product. I wouldn't consider myself a paint specialist and don't work in a body shop, but I do actually have quite extensive (first hand) experience of this type of technology (along with some considerable experience with Scratch Shield specifically), and paint correction in general actually. But let's not let any facts stand in the way of your pouting.

Proof or it didn’t happen. Ubless you’ve sat your car under a heat source for a period of time since you shot that video, you have no idea if it works on your car or not. The fact that you’re clearly expecting way too much from it, as explained, suggests that you wouldn’t recognise it if you did have it, frankly. And no, I don’t have it on my car. I know what it is and isn’t capable of so I would never spec it, let alone pay extra for it, myself.

Is the seat cover removable at all? If so, surely any good fabric dye will do the job, doesn't have to be anything specialist - you're always going to pay a premium from any of the detailing manufacturers and I can't see it being any different to dying any other fabric, tbh.

I've now watched the video and there's some profound misunderstanding of what you've actually paid for going on there. "No one at Nissan knows anything about this scratch proof paint". I can't imagine why, what with it totally existing and stuff. It's really not difficult to find information about it... if you search for the actual product rather than whatever it is you think it should be; https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/scratch.html I've highlighted a few key phrases in bold for you, you might notice (or you might not) that not anywhere does it claim to be scratch proof. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you've probably washed the car/had the car washed for you since that nice hot summer that you mentioned, so I'm struggling to see how that hot weather affects the state of the car in early January. Even in early January when the sun is out for the first time in "a few days" as you put it yourself. Aside from expecting it to be completely impregnable and only having to repair itself once to be immaculate for eternity, you're still expecting way too much from what it can do. You're right in as much as the marring should self heal for the most part (when the paint is warm enough for long enough after the damage is inflicted, not just at some point in its history) but those two scratches simply aren't going to go away. They might look slightly less ungainly at some point, but they'll still be there and they'll always be noticeable because they're just too deep for Scratch Shield to repair.

You misspelt “at”....

You don’t have scratch proof paint, there’s no such thing. You have scratch resistant self-healing paint. It’s a very different thing.

It would struggle to look any worse...

Quite agree that it looks a lot better in white. Looks better still from a distance...

Inform your neighbour you've seen some questionable yoofs hanging around recently. Wait a couple of days. When he goes out, take the pile of crap to the dump. When neighbour returns, blame it on the yoofs. If you want to hero of this story, save a couple of the items he might want to keep, tell him you chased off the yoofs who were helping themselves to his crap, "but look what I rescued for you.. it would probably be best if you don't store it there any more. You know, in case the yoofs come back...".

That's a bit strong to call him a weasel, I mean Dan can be a bit direct from time to time but.... ...you meant Gove, didn't you?

Oi, we had a perfectly good thread about JCB’s going here and you’ve come along and ruined it with this talk of Brexit...

It's how much better off the Supra will be after Brexit...

Good time to invest in Rejuvinate, it's in the Polished Bliss January sale now. Not sure about that... er... "repair", but the rest looks pretty good. You're getting some great reflections there.

Just wait until it appears in the 83rd instalment of that franchise, not only will all those for sale come with 200bhp more but they’ll also cost £40k more too. On the bright side, when Veilside make a body kit for it they actually can’t make look worse*! *[veilside] Challenge accepted [/veilside]

Hmm, generic bland-mobile or hideous disappointment-at-a-cost-mobile. Tough choice... I mean I can’t decide which one I want least!

That interior looks as hideous as the fake nose that’s on the front end. It looks like the driver is very hemmed in!

Polishing by hand is a lot of work, so go for something with filling power as well for a better result. I’d recommend something like Auto Finesse Rejuvinate. It should play well withHetseal on top, it’s a finishing compound so not a lot of cut, but has good cleaners and fillers as well. You’ll get more cut from the pad than the compound by hand so the right pad is essential. Depending on how bad your paint is take your pick from these; https://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/lake-country-hydro-tech-hand-pad - you’d have to be very hamfisted to do any serious damage (even to the bitter soft Nissan paint) by hand to be honest.

Jetseal is okay as acrylic sealants go, a little outdated these days but there’s no point in replacing something that works for you before you’ve run out. What do I use? What don’t I use?!

I’m nowhere near an expert on these matters but I’m pretty sure there’s no statute of limitations on recalls - I.e. if a manufacturer acknowledges a manufacturing fault it doesn’t matter how long you leave it they are obligated to remedy that fault. Pretty sure this won’t help you in any way, shape or form as i can’t back it up with actual facts or anything, but I’d suggest not giving up on it yet.

Surely sticking AWD on it would have a far greater affect of reducing the range than any aero would add anyway, seeing as you’re doubling the motors and all. So pointless post is pointless.

Diamond cut alloys is trend that needs to just die already. That’s all I have to add here.

It’s okay, the iPace is outselling all other cars in history combined ever other day anyway. Maybe they should make that-but-not-that instead. Or something.

When I cleaned my window motor, the glass needed adjusting after I put it all back together (it'd obviously moved during), so just slacken off the bolts holding the glass and manually move it until it's in the right place again.

Nissan Scratch Shield is more scratch resistant than standard lacquer, not scratch proof. If the scratches are deep enough to break the more elastic bonds in the top coat, they’ll remain. The “self repair” aspect is often overhyped, (especially by salesmen who earn commission on the markup ) and are typically thermally activates; I.e. the surface temperature has to reach a certain level before it’ll start to “repair” and it’ll only repair whilst it’s at that or a higher temperature. However it’s actually very easy to break those aforementioned bonds in the paint so small scratches often won’t “heal”. You then have the problem that you can’t polish them out because that then removes even more of the self healing layer of paint. The resilience of the top coat will also be affected by the hardness of the paint below and knowing Nissan they’re still using butter soft paint below it making the top coat easier to break. Either that or they just used standard lacquer which scratches if you look at it. Hope you get it sorted either way. In the mean time try taking a hairdryer to a marred section for a short time to see if that makes any difference at all.