- You can live with scratches on your car — but you shouldn’t.
- It’s relatively easy to repair them, but you need to purchase a kit and follow some steps.
- Just before winter is a good time to make repairs, but it’s never too late.
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I bought a new car over the summer and then endured a minor mishap, requiring a quick repair that I covered in this story.
I referred to scratch repair in that guide, so I thought I’d revisit my repair guide for less demanding fix-its.
Scratches are like the old torture of death by a thousand cuts. Eventually, they’ll destroy your car’s finish by allowing rust to develop on metal parts. And like the great Canadian poet said, rust never sleeps.
Neil Young references aside, a few years ago I suggested two ways to repair scratches. As I was dispensing this basic advice, it occurred to me that I had some scratches on my own car, a 2011 Toyota Prius, that needed attending to, certainly as winter arrived in the Northeast, where I live.
Back then, I took care of them. But I later decided to have another look at my ride. And sure, enough, there were some new nicks and scrapes to attend to.
Read on for a basic how-to for doing simple scratch repair:
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