[Mike97ZJ]

I'll throw in my .02 on this one, since I have a black vehicle with tons of scratches.

As far as putting 6 coats of wax, that really doesn't do much to prevent scratches. Don't spend all week waxing it and think your invincible on the weekend.

I find that Maguire's Scratch X works reasonably well on small surface scratches, and that Turtle Wax Color Match stuff with the lipstick works well on the larger ones. Only thing with that though, you have to keep a good coat on it or it washes off after a few rainstorms. It leaves a great shine on it though, amd as scratched as mine is, it looks great from about ten feet away.

Also, the Meguire's gold class cleaner wax does a good job of removing swirl marks, and leaves a great shine.

Funny thing, it's strangly liberating, getting that first set of scratches. After you get over the initial shock an dissapointment, you don't worry about it as much the next time.

I still try to avoid them, but I'd rather take the line that gives me a few scratches than to take the line that gets me stuck or puts my door into a rock.

It must be tough though, doing that to a new vehicle. Mine was four years old when it got it's first set of trail scratches. Of course I had only had it 6 months at the time, so it still hurt.