One thing lots of drivers hate. Finding a fresh scratch on their ride’s smooth paint job. Maybe it came from flying pebbles, smacking into foliage, or someone bumping your door with keys truth is, ...

We’re sorry to break it to you this way, but no matter how careful a driver you are, you’re going to end up with scratches on your car. Whether you run into a ...

Until very recently, the people who need to test the scratch resistance of a car's paint had just two popular options, and both were kind of silly. The crockmeter involves moving a robotic finger over ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even if you're the most careful driver, chances are you've encountered scratches on your car at some point. Sometimes it might be because of ...

We've owned our 2025 Toyota 4Runner for about six months now, and we're just about to hit 7,000 miles on the odometer. Through all of our highway road trip miles, daily driver family hauling duties, ...

There’s so many different types of car scratches; you may have even heard of car scuffs. Well, our experts at Toyota of Orlando are making it simple ™. Now, when you get a scratch or scuff, you might ...

The fastest way to tell how deep a car scratch is to run your fingernail across it. If your nail glides over the mark without catching, the scratch is in the clear coat only and can be polished out at ...

The black paint on our long-term 2025 Toyota 4Runner has picked up a few minor scratches and blemishes during our ownership. We used a ceramic paint-correction product to polish out some small ...

Finding a scratch on your car is a special kind of heartbreak, but in the future they might be gone before you even notice. Scientists in Korea have developed a coating that self-heals scratches in as ...