3 Types of Paint Correction - TESTED

**The Toothpaste Method: A DIY Paint Correction Hack**

I've been watching YouTube videos where some people go through this and show you how to do it, so I've been watching 'em to make sure that we give this a fair shake, 'cause who knows? What if it works? That could be cool. All right, so it seems like from watching these videos, there are really two processes for the toothpaste method that are prevalent online.

One is just buffing with the toothpaste, kinda like what we've been doing with our products so far, and the other is to smear the toothpaste on, let it dry, and then buff it off. Let's do it. So I guess we'll try the buffer method. So we're gonna add a pretty good amount of water to the pad, and just do some pea-size drops, baby. See how it taps out (laughs). This is gonna be a mess.

(buffer whirring) It does smell good. Once you get the water mixture right, it actually works pretty well with the buffer and feels okay. We'll wash off a little better, and then we'll give it another crack. (buffer grinding) Makes a lot of noise. It's definitely not doing nothing. I mean, it's fixin' some scratches for sure.

The proof is in the paste, let's keep goin'. All right, so before we move on to the bumper, one of the videos about toothpaste said that you have to apply the toothpaste and then let it sit for about five or 10 minutes, and then you work it. There's a pretty good scratch right here. I'm gonna put some toothpaste on it, smear it in, and let it sit while I do the bumper, and then we'll check the scratch, see if we can make it any better with that method.

(buffer whirring) Okay, so after giving the toothpaste the best shot we could manage to give it, it doesn't seem like it did a whole lot. I would say overall, it does look a little bit cleaner and a little shinier at a glance, but you know, I think if we put pretty much anything on a buffer and buffed it like that we would get that effect. When you look closely, it really didn't do much for the light scratches, which is where I thought it might actually be able to work, and it didn't do much.

It literally did nothing for the bumper, and also didn't do anything for water etching, so in my opinion, the toothpaste thing. That is kinda myth-busted. (punches slamming) (rhythmic keyboard music)

So what have we learned today? Well, in my opinion, if you wanna correct your paint, there's nothing better than the tried and true method. With the $20 product from Amazon, honestly, it didn't do bad. It did better than I expected. It did a pretty dang good job on scratches. It did pretty well on the oxidation, and the fact is, it cost a fraction of this. It cost 20 bucks for this bottle, and I think this was the best to work in terms of actually buffing.

It also claims to be a wax amongst the other things it claims to be, and we tested how well it left a wax-protected coating on just by pouring some water onto the paint, and it didn't bead up very well with this, where obviously with our paste wax, this section is very well protected. Now the toothpaste, on the other hand, just didn't do anything, and that's kind of what I was expecting.

I think toothpaste is meant for your mouth, and honestly, per ounce, not that much cheaper than this. If you wanna save some money and some time, then this really isn't a bad method, but if you wanna get the best looking paint you can and you don't mind spending a whole day buffing your car, then I gotta recommend the tried-and-true compound, polish, and wax.

And that's what I'm gonna do to the rest of the Miata to get the rest of it looking this good so you guys can quit hating on my terrible-looking bumper, and then maybe one of these days we'll fix that fender. Thanks for watching, guys. If you wanna see a video on how to get your paint ready for paint correction, then go check out my video on detailing.

Lemme know in the comments below what else you wanna see us do to the Miata, and lemme know if there's any other DIY hacks or tricks that you wanna see us try out, 'cause well I don't wanna do anything else with toothpaste, but I'll do some other stuff. Follow me on Instagram, @zachjobe, and Donut, @donutmedia. Thank you guys, we'll see ya next week.