Need advice - scratched paint

For the amount of time and effort spent on wax, I'd say yeah, definatly do it. If you have a not-so-nice paint job and want the cheap solution, you can buy an aerosol base coat, sand with 400 and cover it up.

Don't try wax. Use clear nail polish.

A Dodge Neon got chip by a flying rock. That chip allow moister inside. It expanded and contracted and eventually took out a basketball size paint. Moral of story, don't buy Dodge Neons, or cars with cheap primers.

A 92 Civic got several chips by a flying pebbles on the hood. This expanded in size as I commuted to work over several weeks. Nail polish stop it on its track.

Tibur Waltson

That sounds like it would work, but I plan to repair the scratched places in a couple of weeks, and wonder if nail polish would be hard to get off. I don't want to do anything that will affect the adhesiveness of any primer/basecoat/clearcoat I have to add when I can start the task. I was mainly worried if things could start to rust in 2 weeks or not, and if I should put something temporarily on it. I can't tell for sure if the primer is breached; tomorrow I'll take it out in the sun and look with a magnifying glass. Thanks!

GS

...I see, then tape will do fine. Wax can interfere with applying a new primer. But a simple solvent and sanding could get rid of the wax.

Tape it in a way that when you try to remove the tape that it doesn't take the paint with it. Moister can come from mists, fogs, sprinkers, sneezing cats, etc.

Tibur Waltson