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Paint correction
Measured first with a paint depth gauge. There is a finite amount of clear coat on a car and every correction spends some of it, so the right stage is the lowest one that gets the result.
Swirl marks are not dirt. They are thousands of fine scratches in the clear coat, and they scatter light instead of returning it, which is why a dirty car and a swirled car look completely different once both are clean.
Pick a stage
A cutting stage to level the defect, then a refining stage to put the gloss back. This is where reflections stop breaking up and the panel starts to read as a mirror rather than as dark paint.
Reflection clarity, relative
88%
A relative indication of how cleanly a panel returns a reflection at each stage, not a measured figure. The condition of the paint decides the real result.
Four steps
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Paint depth gauged across every panel and the defects looked at under a proper light rather than in daylight. This is what decides the stage, not a price list.
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What we would do, which stage, how long the car is with us, and what we are deliberately leaving alone. In writing, before the car goes on the ramp.
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Decontamination, correction, then protection in that order. Skipping the first makes the second pointless and the third permanent.
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You see the car under the inspection light we started with, not under the showroom spots. If it holds up there, it holds up anywhere.
Measured first with a paint depth gauge. There is a finite amount of clear coat on a car and every correction spends some of it, so the right stage is the lowest one that gets the result.
A coating is a sacrificial layer, not a force field. It makes the car easier to wash and holds gloss for years, and it will faithfully preserve every swirl underneath it if the paint was not corrected first.
Extraction rather than surface cleaning. Carpets and cloth hold what has been spilled on them, and a machine that lifts it back out is the difference between a car that looks clean and one that stops smelling.
Wheels come off for anything beyond a maintenance clean. Barrels, calipers, and arches carry most of the brake dust, and none of it is reachable with the wheel still bolted to the car.
Plates 01 to 04
Example imagery, not photographs of completed jobs. A live site would carry the owner’s own pictures of their own work here.
It removes clear coat, which is exactly why it is measured before it is started. A gauge reads thickness across the panel and the stage is chosen from that reading. A car already corrected badly by someone else is the one case where the answer is sometimes no.
Years rather than months, and the number depends far more on how the car is washed afterwards than on the product. An automatic car wash will take a coating down faster than the weather ever will.
If you want the coating to be worth paying for, yes. Coating over swirled paint seals the swirls in and makes them harder to remove later, because now there is a hard layer sitting on top of them.
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Colour, age, and what is bothering you. Dark paint that has been through automatic washes needs a different conversation from a two year old silver estate.
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