Paint Correction
- Home
- Services
- Paint Restoration
What Is Paint Correction
Paint correction gently refines the clear coat to remove swirls, light scratches, haze, and oxidation. We level the top microns so light reflects evenly again, revealing truer color, deeper gloss, sharper reflections, and a surface that washes easier. If you care about your car and want an extremely shiny finish without fighting defects, this is the move.
We safely level the clear coat to erase swirls and dullness, bringing back deep gloss and true color. A smoother surface means faster, safer washes and that mirror finish car lovers want—every time you walk up to it.
Whats Happening?
At the microscopic level, swirls and haze are tiny ridges and valleys in the clear coat that scatter light. Paint correction uses machine polishing with calibrated pads and abrasives to gently level the high points—often just a few microns—so light reflects uniformly. We match pad/compound to paint hardness, control heat and lubrication, protect edges and trim.
The pad’s tiny abrasives gently level the high spots in the clear coat, removing microscopic amounts of material. A little heat helps them cut smoothly, and as the particles break down they polish finer, leaving a super-even surface that reflects light cleanly—so the paint looks rich and glossy.
Decontamination
First Wash
Iron Fallout Remover
First in the process is Chemical decontamination. Spraying Iron fallout remover will remove a lot of embedded contaminants.
Using Iron fallout remover will remove a lot of the surface-level contaminants.
Clay Bar
After the iron fallout remover, any left over contaminants needs to be removed to ensure a proper paint correction.
The clay bar will remove any leftover contaminants and leave a clean surface.
The Importance Of Decontamination
When paint correcting it is important to have a clean and raw surface as possible. This is to ensure that the Car Polish and paint are in direct contact.
This is important to strip any dirt, oils, and other contaminants. This step is also important to strip any protection like waxes or sealants off of the paint.
Paint Correction
Prep stages
Next up is to prepare the paint and other parts of the surfaces for correction. This all starts with taping off the trim, glass, and any other material that doesn’t get polished. This is important to not only protect the trim and taped-off parts but also the polish pads.
When it comes to paint correction it is very important to take the necessary steps to ensure a smooth process.
Compounding Stage
Compounding is the stage of paint correction that reduces the larger defects in the paint. After removing the larger scratches and defects in the paint a slight haze is left behind.
Polishing Stage
Once the paint is free of deeper scratches and left with a haze the next step is to reintroduce gloss and clarity.
Polishing is the final step before the application of the coating. With both steps done that leaves the paint primed for the application of the coating.
Test Panel Assessment
In order to attain the best possible finish for the paint we must use the right combination of car polish and polishing pads. Every time that we polish the car we remove a little bit of clear coat. Because of this, our goal is to remove the least amount of clear coat as possible. Because of this you can only polish and compound the paint so much until there is no clear coat left.
We set up a few spaces to test a variety of methods to see which one will reintroduce as much shine as possible while removing the least amount of clear coat.
Panel By Panel Correction
Our next step is to go panel by panel going in a crosshatch pattern to use the car polish to remove any and all defects in the paint. We start with the roof to remove all of the defects with minimal chance of marring or scratching the farther down we go on the car. In the continuance of top-down, we then do any pillars. Then we do the top half of the doors and then move down.
What Affects Pricing?
How many stages of paint correction?
One polishing stage may take up to two hours. Depending on the level of finish or correction needed the price may vary.
