the car used to belong to my wifes father. he was never well enough to drive it. it has 799 miles on it, a hunk of which i put on it in order to generate computer data for emission testing. the nicks came from using the club antitheft device too tightly attached to the steering wheel. sure looks as though a little paint on the hub would do the trick.believe it or not those nicks are the only marks on the entire car after washing and polishing it.