What Happens in 30 Seconds When You Rub This on a Car Scratch Will Put Auto Body Shops Out Of Business
A new cloth built on NanoBond technology has been hard to keep in stock since word got out, and the drivers who've got hold of one are calling it the biggest thing to happen to car care in decades. What it does to a scratch in about thirty seconds is the part nobody believes until they watch it happen.
Rick Clipped a Parking Garage Pillar. The Body Shop Wanted $1,920.
Rick Mullen has parked in the same downtown garage every workday for four years. The ramp up to the third level turns tight, and in early March he took it a foot too close. The front of the car cleared the pillar. The back end cut in tighter and didn't.
The pillar left a stripe of its own white paint across the corner of his rear bumper and a spray of fine scratches under it. About the size of a hand.
The body shop three miles from his house printed an estimate for $1,920.00. His deductible was $1,000, and his agent told him — politely, and correctly — that a cosmetic claim wasn't a fight worth having.
The estimate went on the kitchen counter and stayed there.
Two weeks later he had a first date.
He got there early and parked under the streetlight. When she came around the passenger side she stopped, looked at the corner of the bumper and said, "oh — what happened there?"
It wasn't unkind, but it left him feeling a little embarrassed.
He told her he'd been meaning to get it fixed. They went to dinner, had a decent night, and he never heard from her again.
He isn't convinced the scratches on his car had anything to do with it, and that was never the point.
The point is that he thought about those four seconds every time he walked up to the car for the next two months.
Rick Bought an Off-The-Shelf Scratch Remover. It Made the Bumper Worse.
The Saturday after the date he drove to the auto parts store and did what almost every driver does at that point. He bought a product off the shelf promising to remove light scratches and swirl marks.
He washed the bumper, dried it, and followed the directions on the back exactly — small circles, moderate pressure, let it haze, buff off.
Forty minutes later the damage was still there. If anything it looked worse — the rubbing had left a dull, cloudy finish sitting over the top of it, about the size of a dinner plate.
"I made a $1,920 problem into a bigger one with a $19 off-the-shelf product." — Rick Mullen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
That Sunday night he posted a photo of his damaged bumper in a car-owners group he'd joined years earlier to buy winter tires, and asked for help fixing it without taking it to an auto body shop.
A Man Who Ran a Body Shop for 15 Years Answered Rick's Post
The reply came from Mark Delaney, who ran Delaney Collision & Refinish in Toledo, Ohio, from 2008 until he closed the doors in 2023.
"Your first mistake was walking into an auto parts store. Those off-the-shelf products are nothing more than liquid sandpaper — that's why it left you a dull, hazy finish and made the whole thing look worse than when you started." — Mark Delaney, former owner, Delaney Collision & Refinish
They ended up on the phone the next evening. Rick asked the obvious question first: was his only option biting the bullet and paying a body shop $1,920?
"Up until last year, that really would have been your only option. And shops knew it — so the number got marked up a lot higher than the work ever needed to be. That's how body shops earned the reputation for ripping people off, and it ruined it for the honest ones." — Mark Delaney
In the fifteen years he ran the shop, Delaney said, the same two people kept walking through his door. The ones who'd tried a cheap off-the-shelf product first and damaged their paint doing it. And the ones who came in for a quote, heard the number, and left — because fixing it properly at a body shop cost far more than most people could justify for a scratch.
So after he retired and closed the doors, he set out to build the solution for the gap in between.
He gave himself three requirements. It had to be easy enough that anybody could use it, with no special tools. It had to work fast, because people don't have all day to sit around. And it had to work on any car, old or new, in any color.
Every product on the shelf worked by sanding material away. His had to repair it.
He spent two years working on scrap panels from the old shop until he found a way to build NanoBond technology into something as ordinary as a cloth — one you could rub over a scratch by hand and have the paint fill back in, instead of grinding it away.
He called it FixaPro.
Before they hung up, Delaney asked for Rick's address and said he'd send him one.
Delaney Mailed Rick One for Free. He Tried It on the Bumper.
A week after the call a gold pack turned up with no invoice in it — a gray fiber pad the size of a phone. When he offered to pay, Delaney told him not to bother.
"I opened the pack and a gray pad fell out. That was it. No bottle, nothing to plug in. I stood there in my kitchen thinking I was being played for a joke — this is what's supposed to fix a $1,920 estimate?" — Rick Mullen
The instructions were one line long: rub the pad into the damaged area in small circles, and the scratches gradually start to fade.
He started on the hazed patch — his own damage, the part he'd already given up on. As he rubbed the pad in, the first thing he noticed was the paint transfer starting to disappear. He kept going, and the scuffs underneath began to fade out with it.
It took him under two minutes, standing in his own driveway, with no tools and nothing that had to be plugged in. The cloudiness and haze were gone, and the paint was glossy again and matched the rest of the bumper.
Rick couldn't believe it.
"I kept rubbing at it waiting for the catch. There isn't one. I said it out loud in my own driveway — that's it? That's the whole thing?" — Rick Mullen
He Wasn't the Only One Seeing This
With more than 1,000 verified reviews and a 4.9-star average, plenty of other car owners are seeing the exact same thing.
Ray T., from Dayton, Ohio, shows what happened after somebody keyed his car in a parking lot.
Ray T., Dayton, Ohio — a key line down the door, filmed in his own garage.
Jessica V., from Scottsdale, Arizona, shows the same thing after a shopping cart hit the door of her brand new BMW.
Jessica V., Scottsdale, Arizona — cart damage on a car she'd owned three weeks.
The Secret Formula Behind FixaPro — And How It Does That in 30 Seconds
- Clean the spot — wash and dry the area so there's no grit sitting on the panel.
- Rub FixaPro into the scratch for about 30 seconds — firm, small circles. No water, no machine, no mixing.
- Wipe it off with a clean microfiber — that's the end of it.
The secret sauce is what's engineered into the pad itself.
FixaPro is built on NanoBond Technology. Nanotechnology itself isn't new — NASA has used it in spacecraft coatings for years, and it has been working its way into everyday products ever since. Getting it into a cloth that fits in one hand, that anybody could use on their own car, is the part that took Delaney two years.
The particles are held in the fibers of the cloth itself. Rubbing works them loose into the scratch, where they bond with the clear coat and the paint around it instead of stripping it away, easing the damage back together.
They carry no color of their own. The work happens in the clear coat sitting above your paint, so there's nothing to match and nothing to blend — what you're looking at afterward is your car's own color, the way it was.
It finishes by leaving a thin protective layer behind, which is why the spot you just repaired ends up better shielded against the next scratch than the paint around it.
The question Delaney gets asked most is whether it washes off. It doesn't — the repair happens inside the clear coat and the paint rather than sitting on top of them, so it lasts as long as the paint itself does.
That's also why there's nothing to match and nothing to blend:
- Works on any car, old or new, in any color
- No power buffer, no polisher, no applicator pads, nothing to plug in or charge
- No mess, no drips, no residue to clean up
- Doors, bumpers, fenders, wheel arches, around door handles, and the lower panels where road grit does its damage
- One pad handles roughly 2–3 scratches
- Small enough to live in a glovebox
Could It Handle Anything Else, Too?
Once his own bumper was done, Rick ordered a handful more and started looking at his family's cars.
His sister's RAV4 had the fine marks four fingernails leave over three years of reaching for the same spot. Thirty seconds a side, and they were gone.
Three years of fingernail marks in the handle recess, worked out in a single pass.
His mother's white Camry had a scuff along the mirror housing, from a garage doorway she swears has moved. Gone, with nothing left to point at.
The scuff along the mirror housing on his mother's Camry, done in the driveway.
Five Dates In, and Nobody's Mentioned the Bumper
Rick has been seeing someone since June. Last weekend was the fifth date.
He still doesn't think a bumper corner decides anything. What's different is that he never has to worry about being embarrassed by his car looking damaged or scratched anymore — he walks up to it and gets in.
Mostly because he keeps a few FixaPro in his glove box now, so whenever the next inevitable scratch turns up, he can deal with it there and then. And there's always a next one — a cart in a parking lot, a door swung too wide, a pillar he clipped taking the ramp a foot too close.
How To Get Your Own FixaPro
FixaPro is only sold directly through the official website, and it's currently 65% off.
It's not sold on Amazon, Walmart, eBay, or in any auto parts chain — beware of counterfeits and fakes pretending to be FixaPro on those platforms.
Demand has skyrocketed recently as videos of car owners using FixaPro have gone viral — and inventory is running out quickly as a result.
It doesn't sand your clear coat away like the products on the auto parts shelf, and it doesn't cost $1,920 like a body shop.
There's no machine to buy, no compound to mix, and no technique to learn — just one pad that works in the moment it's needed, in about thirty seconds, nothing more.
FixaPro comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. There's no long-term commitment, no subscription, and no risk in trying it — if for some reason it doesn't work on your car, it can be returned for a full refund.
One thing worth knowing before you order: most people aren't buying a single cloth. With no restock date to plan around, they're taking the multi-packs while the discount is on — the price per cloth drops the more you take, and the next scratch is already covered before it happens.
A wave of new orders came in after FixaPro went viral, and inventory dropped fast. The specialized nanoparticle compound each pad is treated with is on backorder too, so there's no clear timeline for when more will be available once this run sells out.
Get FixaPro — 65% Off TodayWhat Readers Are Saying About FixaPro
Comments left on this article by readers who ordered one.
Only ordered the FixaPro because I'd already thrown $30 at a bottle that did absolutely nothing. Somebody's door swung into my truck at the hardware store and left their paint behind on mine. One cloth, about a minute, gone. Still annoyed about the $30.
four years of automatic car washes and my hood looked like someone went at it with a brillo pad. tried the fixapro on just the hood on saturday to see if it was a scam. ended up doing the whole car on sunday. husband thinks I've lost the plot but the roof honestly looks better than when we bought it
FixaPro worked on the swirl marks and the light stuff around my door handles, no complaints there. The deep one on my fender you can still catch with a fingernail — it's better but it hasn't gone. The pack does say surface scratches, so that one's on me, not the cloth.
Lease turn-in was three weeks out. Scratches round both back door handles courtesy of my kids, plus a curb scrape I'd been ignoring since March. Ordered two FixaPro, spent an evening on it, and the inspection came back clean. No idea what they'd have charged me otherwise.
my dog clawed all down the tailgate getting excited about a walk and I genuinely cried. one fixapro cloth and you cannot find them now. that's all I came here to say