5 signs your car needs paint correction
Swirls, hazing and water spots — the tell-tale signs your paint needs correcting, and what the process actually involves.
Paint correction is the machine-polishing process that removes the fine defects sitting in your clear coat to restore depth, clarity and gloss. Here's how to tell if your car would benefit.
1. Swirl marks under the light
Park in direct sun and look at the bonnet. Those fine spider-web circles are swirl marks, usually caused by poor wash technique. They're the number one thing correction removes.
2. A dull, flat finish
If your paint has lost its wet, mirror-like reflection and looks hazy even when clean, oxidation and micro-marring are scattering the light. Correction brings the gloss back.
3. Water spots that won't wash off
Etched water spots from hard water or sprinklers bond into the surface and survive a normal wash. Polishing lifts them out.
4. Light scratches you can't feel
Surface scratches that catch the light but don't catch your fingernail are sitting in the clear coat — exactly what correction is designed to remove.
5. You're about to sell
A corrected, glossy car photographs better and sells faster. A single-stage enhancement before a sale often pays for itself many times over.
Ready to give your car the treatment it deserves?