If you're an insomniac or simply enjoy punishing yourself with "paid programming," you know that for the past 25 years or so, every week it seems there is a new wonder wax and/or scratch remover ...

It happens. You brush past your car with a backpack zipper, a kid's bike scrapes the door, or a branch along the driveway leaves a mark. Suddenly, there's a scratch on your paint. And once you notice ...

This article was updated with new information in February 2026. You didn't mean to cut it that close to the shrubs lining your driveway, but here we are. Now there's a scratch that, no matter how much ...