What is Paint Correction?

Paint Correction is different from Clay Bar, which cleans your car paint by removing contaminants that are stuck to the surface and won't wash off.

Paint Correction removes paint imperfections caused by fine scratches, swirls, holograms, and oxidation, which makes your car paint cloudy or hazy. Oxidation is a natural chemical process that occurs when you do not keep your vehicle regularly waxed or protected by a paint sealant or protective coating. Holograms are caused by overheating from a rotary buffer, usually due to an inexperienced detailer. It leaves your clear coat looking smudged.

Your Clear Coat Shields Your Paint

Your clear coat protects your paint, taking the impact of anything the road throws at it, especially in a sandy, salty climate like Southern California. Sand and grit are the culprit of scratches on the lower panels, bumper, body side moldings, and front grill of your car.

Ironically, the most common cause for fine scratches, swirls, and holograms are automated car washes, Do-it-Yourselfers, and inexperienced detailers! High Performance often repairs these imperfections caused when the cleaner fails to properly rinse the dirt off the vehicle using a lubricating shampoo, before scrubbing. Using dirty rags, sponges, and towels when washing and drying, grind the dirt into the clear coat like an abrasive, causing fine scratches.

Holograms are deeper than scratches and swirls and are caused almost exclusively by an inexperienced detailer with little training in the finesse of controlling the heat while machine polishing your vehicle. The heat burns the paint causing distortions in the clear coat that are difficult, but not impossible, for paint correction professionals like High Performance to get out.

Paint Correction Restores the Brilliance of Your Paint & Shine

Admittedly, our paint correction technique sounds scary because it involves removing and re-leveling 1 to 2 microns of your clear coat using an abrasive method, and then buffing it back out to a shine. However, only a shaving compared to the thickness of a sheet of paper, paint correction removes that damaged layer of the clear so the paint can shine through as it was originally designed to do!

Long-term Paint Protection

Now that you understand what causes the need for paint correction, you can understand why doing everything possible to prevent it in the future is equally as important! After buffing your newly corrected paint to an amazing level of shine, High Performance then protects it using either a long-lasting wax sealant or a long-term ceramic coating to repel dirt and scratches for years - not weeks or months.

With a paint specialist like Jose Junco monitoring the health of your car paint, your vehicle will maintain its shine longer, and help make cleaning much easier.

Get more information about permanent and semi-permanent ceramic coatings here!