PAINT CORRECTION & POLISHING

Polishing permanently removes swirls and scratches, instead hiding them with a glaze wax, that has a lot of fillers and you just wipe it on. It fills the scratches, but it’s temporary. It looks good for a few weeks until you wash the car a couple of times, and then those fillers will deteriorate and then all your swirls come back.

What polishing does is shaves a very fine layer of your clear coat off because all those scratches are in your clear coat. Depending on how deep scratches and swirls are, certain ones might not be able to come out with polishing. You may have to sand and then polish. 

It can be hard to tell if there are swirls or scratches on your car. When you look at your car in the sun, it looks like there are spider webs all over it. These scratches and swirls can occur from normal wiping, going through the car wash, or using a snowbrush in the winter time. It leaves very fine scratches in the clear coat. Paint correction and polishing means correcting the paint and bringing it back to that like-glass swirl-free finish.

Environmental factors can also cause you to require Paint correction. You could get water spotting from acid rain, hard water spots, salt in the winter time, sap, or bird droppings. Just by washing the car or clay barring it won’t remove those spots, which is why polishing and paint correction are necessary.

Paint correction process

1. MULTI-STEP HAND WASH

Pre-rinse to remove heavy debris and road grime.

Pre-foam and let sit to loosen bonded contamination.

Wheels, tires and fender wells safety degreased and cleaned with various wheel brushes.

Two bucket hand wash using premium microfiber wash mitt for a swirl free finish.

2. PAINT DECONTAMINATION

Paint, glass and wheels are soaked with Sonax Iron remover to remove embedded iron.

Clay bar is used to remove bonded contamination from paint.

3. SURFACE PREPARATION

vehicle surface is made dry with soft microfiber towels

Surface is wiped down with glass cleaner and IPA isopropyl alcohol to remove waxes and sealants to exposed bare paint.

Rubber trim, emblems, vents etc are masked off to prevent damage and debris from polishing.

Paint is measured using a paint depth gauge.

4. SURFACE REFINISHING AND REFINEMENT. 

Paintwork is corrected through one of our level of correction service requested by customer

5. FINAL PROCESS

We apply ceramic coating or graphene coating (if requested by customer) lasting up to 6 months to lifetime.

Wheels are part of the ceramic pro and graphene coating packages.

Window cleaned interior/exterior.

Final walk-around with our inspection is done