Paint Correction in San Francisco

Take your car outside on a sunny day and look at the paint at an angle. See those spiderweb patterns, that haze, those fine scratches that make your color look dull? That's what automatic car washes, improper washing, and years of neglect do to your clear coat. Every time you drove through a touchless wash or wiped your car with a dry towel, you were adding damage.

Paint correction is the process of machine polishing your paint to remove those defects. Using a combination of compounds and polishes applied with a dual-action or rotary polisher, we level the clear coat to eliminate swirl marks, scratches, water spots, and oxidation. The result is paint that looks wet, deep, and alive—often better than it did when new.

This isn't something you do with a random orbital buffer from the hardware store. Professional paint correction requires understanding paint systems, measuring clear coat thickness, selecting the right combination of pads and products, and having the experience to know when to stop. Done wrong, you can burn through clear coat. Done right, you reveal what your paint was always capable of looking like.

In San Francisco, paint correction makes an especially dramatic difference. Our fog, salt air, and road grime accelerate paint deterioration. Many vehicles we see have never been properly corrected—and the transformation is remarkable. If you're considering ceramic coating, paint correction beforehand ensures you're locking in a flawless finish rather than sealing in defects.