You can live with scratches on your car — but you shouldn't.
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. And like the great Canadian poet said, rust never sleeps.
Neil Young references aside, I recently suggested two ways to repair scratches. While I was dispensing this basic advice, it occurred to me that I had a scratch on my own car, a 2011 Toyota Prius, that needed attending to, certainly before winter in the Northeast, where I live.
I kind of split the difference between my two earlier scratch repair techniques: I didn't use tape; and I didn't go for a perfect fix.
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I've had my Prius for over a year — lots of time to acquire a few dings and scratches.
Here's the one I decided to repair: a narrow scribbled scrape. Ugly!
A company called TouchUpDirect sells repair kits. For about $30, I got a paint pen to match my car's color, as well as a clear coat pen. Clearcoat is the transparent layer that protects the finish.
Here's a link to the company's site. I don't recommend or endorse the product, but in my case, it worked well.
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