Paint Correction
What is it?
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Paint correction is the process of removing defects such as swirls, scratches, oxidation, and marring by leveling out the clear coat on the paint of the vehicle. This leaves the paint incredibly glossy and clear
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How does it work?
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Before any polishing or correction can be done, the vehicle must first be prepped with a thorough wash, clay bar treatment, drying, and taping off of any sensitive areas such as trim and plastics.
Clearcoat is then leveled and smoothed out using various compounds and polishes and a random orbital polisher tool.
Why should you correct your paint?
Over time, cars can develop micro-abrasions all over the surface of their paint. While it might not seem very noticeable, these abrasions can trap dirt and grime within your clear coat causing your car to look dirtier faster. They can also make your clean car look faded and scratched. Worst of all, certain abrasions can cause further chipping, oxidation, fading, and decoloration.
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Correcting your car's clear coat brings back the mirror finish your car left the factory with.
Our process
Paint correction is a patient and time-consuming process but the end result is well worth the wait
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We use an industry-standard 6-step process
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1. Very thorough wash and dry of the vehicle
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2. Physical decontamination using a clay bar treatment to pick up any surface contaminants missed by the initial wash
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3. Chemical decontamination using iron, tar, and adhesive removers to remove anything embedded within the clear coat
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4. Once fully decontaminated, we move to the compounding process. This removes a very thin layer of clear coat to level it out and remove swirls and scratches
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5. We then follow it with a polish to fill the remaining gaps and bring back that deep shine
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6. Finally, we need to protect the fresh layer of clear coat with a wax layer to protect against new scratches and keep a long-lasting mirror finish
Decontamination Process
It is crucial when correcting paint that it is fully decontaminated from any dirt, iron deposits, tar, sap, adhesive, etc. so that we are not adding further damage by pushing these contaminants into the paint. Because of this, we have to use physical and chemical decontamination.
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Physical
For physical decon, we use an automotive clay towell. The special blend of clay picks up contaminants embedded within the paint that a regular wash cannot
Chemical
For chemical decon, we use an iron remover and a tar and adhesive remover. The iron remover melts away any iron deposits from brakes or other cars trapped within the paint (shown on the left), and a tar remover for any asphalt or sap.
Compounding and Polishing
After we have fully decontaminated the car paint/clear coat, we can begin the 2-step paint correction polish.
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Compounding
The first step is to level out the vehicle's clear coat by removing a thin layer of material. The clear coat develops valleys and ridges which causes the paint to look scratched and swirled. Depending on the severity of the damage, we use compounds with different levels of abrasion to get the perfect mirror finish on your paint.
Polishing
While compounding levels out the clear coat, it is an abrasive formula and therefore can leave behind its own micro scratches. We follow up the compounding process with polishing to remove these micro scratches giving a perfectly smooth and level clear paint.
