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When it was new - before scratches.
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 on metal parts. 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 some scratches on my own car, a 2011 Toyota Prius, that needed attending to, certainly as winter arrived in the Northeast, where I live.
I took care of them, but now that spring has rolled around, I can see some new damage. Time to break out the scratch-fixing kit for another run.
Read on for a basic how-to:
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