PAINT CORRECTION
Paint correction in Farmington Hills — get the paint right before you cover it.
Swirls, haze, and water spots cut back by hand and machine, so the finish underneath is honest — the step that makes ceramic or film worth doing.
We read the paint first — measure the clear coat, find the defects, and set the least aggressive stage that actually fixes them.
You get exactly the correction the paint needs, not a heavy cut that burns through clear coat you can't get back. The swirls and haze come down while the paint keeps its life — corrected, not thinned out.
We level the fine scratches and oxidation that scatter light across the surface.
Instead of a dull, cloudy sheen, the paint reflects cleanly again — the color reads deeper because the surface is flat.The finish looks the way it did when the car was new — and if we're coating it afterward, ceramic goes onto corrected paint, so you're locking in the good version, not sealing in the swirls.
The honest version
What correction can — and can't — bring back.
Correction removes what lives in the clear coat: swirls, light scratches, haze, most water spots. It cannot bring back a scratch that's gone through to the paint or the primer, and there's only so much clear coat to work with — chasing every last mark by cutting deeper does more harm than good. We'll show you which defects will come out and which won't before we start, so you know exactly what you're paying for. And once it's corrected, protecting it (film, ceramic) is how you keep it that way.
Pricing
Two stages. Flat prices.
We sell a process, not a perfect result. The prices are flat — what changes is which stage the paint needs, and that's a call we make by reading it, not something you have to guess at.
One-stage — $400
For light swirls and oxidation — the fine marks that scatter light and leave the surface dull. One stage brings them down while the paint keeps its life.
Two-stage — $800
For heavier scratches — defects one stage won't fully level. Still the least aggressive cut that actually fixes them, because there's only so much clear coat to work with.
Prep before protection
Correction is what makes a coating worth doing.
Ask us to coat uncorrected paint and you'll get the same answer every time. We'll coat without a correction if you insist — but we won't stand behind the warranty on it. Correction strips off the oxidation and the contaminants stuck in the paint, and a coating only bonds properly to the freshest, smoothest surface — even on a car straight off the dealer lot.
It's why our ceramic pricing is itemized as coating plus a one-stage correction: the correction is the part that makes the coating worth paying for.
Questions
What people ask us about correction.
Which stage does my paint need?
We look at the paint and tell you. The clear coat gets measured, the defects get found, and the stage we set is the least aggressive one that actually fixes them — one stage for light swirls and oxidation, two for heavier scratches.
Will correction remove every scratch?
No. Correction removes what lives in the clear coat; a scratch that's gone through to the paint or the primer isn't coming back, and chasing it with a deeper cut does more harm than good. We show you which defects will come out and which won't before we start — that's the process we're selling.
Do I need a correction before a ceramic coating?
If you want the warranty to hold, yes — a coating only bonds properly to the freshest, smoothest surface, even on a car straight off the dealer lot. It's why our ceramic coating pricing is itemized as coating plus a one-stage correction.
How much does paint correction cost?
One-stage is $400 and covers light swirls and oxidation. Two-stage is $800, for heavier scratches. The prices are flat — what changes is which stage the paint needs, and we tell you that after we've read it, not before.
Metro Detroit
Serving Farmington Hills & Metro Detroit.
The bay is in Farmington Hills, and correction work brings cars in from across Metro Detroit — customers drive from Novi, Livonia, West Bloomfield, Birmingham, and Northville. Wherever you're coming from, the first step is the same: bring it by and let us read the paint.