Every wash a car has ever had leaves fine marks in the paint. Correction is machine polishing that takes those marks out of the clear coat, so the paint reflects cleanly again and stays that way.
Hold a bright light on the paint, or look at it in direct sun, and you can see a spiderweb of fine scratches in the clear coat. Those are wash marks, and they are what makes a dark car look dull and flat even when it is clean.
Glazes and waxes fill those marks in temporarily. They look great for a few weeks, then the marks come back, because they never left. Correction removes a microscopic layer of clear coat, down to the bottom of the scratch, so there is nothing left to come back.
There is a limit to how often it can be done. A car only has so much clear coat, which is why the paint gets inspected before any polishing starts, and why a car that has been corrected properly should then be protected rather than left to collect the same marks again.
An '84 Silverado, single panel, before and after. Look at what the overhead lights do. On the left they smear across the surface. On the right they hold their shape, because there is nothing left in the clear coat to scatter them.
Both are real correction. The difference is how many polishing stages the paint gets, and how deep the marks are that come out.
The paint gets looked at under proper light, panel by panel, before a price is confirmed. Some cars need less than the owner expects. A few need more.
Wash, then chemical and clay decontamination. Polishing over embedded grit just drags it across the panel.
Machine polish, worked in small sections, then a finer polish over the top so the paint is left clear rather than hazy. Trim and edges taped where they need to be.
An enhancement is usually a full day on site. A full correction takes longer, and on some cars it runs across two visits. You get the real timing when the car is assessed, not an optimistic guess.
The marks we removed are gone for good. New ones come from how the car gets washed afterwards, which is why a coating and a maintenance program beat a drive-through car wash.
Yes. The rig carries its own water and power. A driveway, a garage or an office lot all work.
Yes, or at minimum a gloss polish. A coating seals in whatever is under it, so coating swirled paint means keeping those swirls for years.
Send a photo of the panel in direct sun and we will tell you honestly whether you need enhancement or the full job.
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