Your car's paint job does more than make your vehicle look good — it protects the metal body from rust and corrosion. But exposure to the sun, road debris and other factors can damage it over time.

The automotive-paint industry is an ever-changing world. When the first cars rolled off the assembly line, they were painted with a brush. The first Corvettes, meanwhile, were finished with lacquer ...

Having paint chips professionally repaired at a bodyshop is expensive and inconvenient. A much less expensive, quicker and easier option is to try to fix the damage yourself with touch up paint. Small ...

With these easy-to-use touch-up paint products, you’ll keep your car looking like it just rolled off the lot. Automotive touch-up paint is something all car owners need to be familiar with. Scratches, ...

Nothing is more frustrating to a car owner than a vehicle that needs an engine replacement or whose paint starts peeling just a few years after leaving the dealer’s lot. Having to make expensive ...

CHARLOTTE — Anna Greene keeps her Toyota RAV4 clean and shiny. She cares how it looks, so it rubs her the wrong way even more that the paint keeps chipping. “It started with one little bitty spot and ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...