Whether you drive a new or used car, discovering a new dent, scratch, or scuff mark can send you into a frustration spiral. While there are many ways to deal with dents, scratches and scuff marks are trickier because you could make your car’s paint job look even worse. But there is an easy trick to removing them.
Here is a pic of my car, which got hit with a motor cycle and you can see a scuff mark on the bumper.
How I removed it?
Just take a soft cloth and a smear of toothpaste, and you can erase scratches and scuff marks on your car without much work involved. This trick works best if the scratches and/or scuff marks haven’t fully penetrated the clear coat of your vehicle’s paint. If you can grab a hold of a scratch with your fingernail, it might be too big to buff out with toothpaste.
Toothpaste works to sand down the uneven surface of your car’s glossy sheen and fill in the gap, so to speak. Just make sure the surface around the area is clean—you don’t want to buff particles of dirt and debris into your paint. If there is foreign paint on the outside, the toothpaste will act as an abrasive to help remove that, too.
Add a dab of toothpaste to your damp cloth. Rub the toothpaste onto the scratch or scuff mark using a small, circular motion to cover its surface. As you move or lift the cloth, you should see the scratch or scuff mark disappear. When you see that the mark is gone, you’re finished!