Turtle Wax T-374KTR Color Magic Car Polish, Black - 16 Fl Oz.

After just two weeks, I took a small rock from a semi-tractor trailer on the black hood of my new German import which left a scratch deep into the clear coat about six inches long. I tried rubbing it out with several different compounds, but the scratch remained. The next day I stopped by the body shop of a friend for advice who specializes in painting and repairing German automobiles. He suggested that using touch up paint would worsen the appearance and suggested that I just learn to live with it. Not the right answer. After an hour of online research I came across this product and decided to try it out. It's a two-step process with a black wax-like pencil to fill in the scratch, followed by the application of black liquid wax to blend and polish the affected area. I repeated this process twice and the results were amazing. I anticipated the treatment might last a few weeks and need to be repeated on a regular basis, but it's been three months and it still looks great. If you have a light scratch on a black car or truck that will not rub out, I suggest you consider this product. It was the prefect solution for me.

Is it perfect? No. But I am impressed with what it did. My black car is 20 years old, but always garaged so the paint is in reasonably good condition. There are still a lot of little scratches, mostly on the hood and I wanted to address those. This worked very well to diminish the appearance of those scratches on just the first application. You can still see them if you look, but just walking by at a glance, they no longer jump out at you. And, I also realized how oxidized the paint is too, as it's very evident in the places I have not done yet. This works well to remove that. Also works well to remove those stubborn "water" stains near the washer fluid nozzles. I was surprised that this works surprisingly well on GLOSSY painted plastic surfaces, such as the door handles that always get those scratches from fingernails. (Don't use on flat black plastic)

I bought this polish as one step of a project to rehabilitate the finish on my 2016 KIA Soul. There were no major problems, but there were some minor scratches and swirl marks and a bunch of tiny stone chips.If this is the situation you're in, you should know that this polish on its own does only a mediocre job of covering scratches, and a less-than-mediocre job of covering chips.What I wound up doing was touching up the tiny chips with the pain pens KIA sells, compounding the car to blend those corrections in, and then using this wax. I'll leave you to decide whether the end result was worth it.It's not that this is a bad product, mind you. It's not. But if you expect it to cover scratches and nicks with no extra effort on your part, you probably will be disappointed. But if you put some work into touching up the chips and preparing the surface with a proper compounding, this polish will make a good next step.By the way, I don't really consider this a "polish" by my definition of the word. I consider it more of a pigmented cleaner wax. But by whatever name, it works fairly well if you don't expect it to do miracles and put some effort into the prep work.The application and removal both take a bit more muscle than an average car wax, but are not back breaking. It also takes a lot longer to haze over than most waxes. Do yourself a favor and give it plenty of time to dry. It's much easier to remove (and also seems to work better as a scratch cover) if you let it dry completely.In summary, this is a good tool as part of a surface correction on a black car. But it's not a detailer in a bottle. If you put some effort into the rest of the work, this will help you obtain a good result. But it won't do the rest of the work for you.

- A GREAT VALUE, WORKS WELL !- GREAT FOR BLACK FIREBIRD, MASKS PAINT IMPERFECTIONS WELL!- SHINES WELL!|- I REGULARLY USE MEGUIARS, BUT THIS WORKS FOR IMPERFECT PAINT!- ECONOMICAL!

Used this on my '07 Volvo XC 90 and it worked OK. We bouth this vehicle used and it came to us with swirl marks all over it. This stuff Can be difficult to get off at times. I did completely by hand. Took a rather long time. Did OK on the light swirl marks. The heavy ones still showed through. The light scratches it did absolutely nothing for. It did provide a very nice shine when combined with chemical brothers butter wax. But shine was short lived after first rain 2 days later. Water spots everywhere and shine gone.

It may not give you the kind of results you'd get with a comprehensive detailing product/kit like Turtle Wax Black Box ( a product that takes 2-3 hours from start to finish)... but for the price and the speed of use, this to me is the best value.If you're a perfectionist, there are other products one could use. But if you just want to give your car a nice impressive shine without spending hours on your car, to me this is one of the best products out there. THE CHIPSTICK ALONE WOULD BE WORTH THE PRICE just for the difference it makes in filling in and concealing scratches!After washing my car, Between filling in the scratches with the Chipstik, buffing those spots, applying the Color Magic liquid, and shining it all up, I think I was done in maybe 30-35 minutes.... and probably could have gotten it done quicker except for the fact that I hadn't worked on my car's finish like this since I got it 2 years ago. For future polishings and touch ups, I think maybe 20 minutes or so will get it done. Highly recommended and very nice price.5 stars for sure.

This was fairly easy to use. Easily applied, buffed off with only a little effort. The color added to the wax does tend to bring up the color to some extent and makes the scratches a little less noticeable.My Miata is 18 years old and has spent most of the time outside, not in a garage or car port. The paint is a bit damaged in places by gravel dints and by scratches as well as by the sunlight and weather. The wax has greatly improved the appearance. It does as advertised and as I expected.I do find it worthwhile and intend to use it again.