Paint Correction Service

One-Step Paint Correction

Your Car Paint, Shinier

Make your paint brighter, shinier. Gentle polishing process.

One-Step Paint Correction Package

Your Car Paint, Shinier

Liven any paint; restore well-cared for paint.

Remove the lightest swirls, scuffs, scratches.

Gentle polishing option.

This package includes clay bar and  Iron X decontamination treatments, mechanical polishing using a hybrid compound polish that corrects paint while finishing, and application of ceramic sealant wax:

Paint Inspection

Inspect and assess vehicle’s paint vis-à-vis paint correction:

  • Use digital paint thickness meter
  • Gather paint history Formulate and present a paint correction opinion
  • Answer these questions: should the vehicle be polished? How? Why? Why not?
  • Suggest next steps
 
Chemical Decontamination (Iron X)

Your car’s paint protected from those easy-to-develop tiny rust spots.

  • Over time, iron filings and other pollutants etch into and accumulate on your car’s paint. These embedded iron filings result in the tiny rust-colored spots most easily seen on white cars, but visible on all colors.
  • Chemical treatment dissolves iron filings and other contaminants without damaging your car’s paint or trim.
  • Protects and brightens your paint.
  • Prepares your paint for fresh sealant wax or polishing.
Mechanical Decontamination (Clay Bar)

Your paint smooth to the touch; possibly enhanced gloss; prepared for sealant wax and polishing.

  • At times, contaminants remain etched in your paint even after washing, waxing, and chemical treatments. This mechanical decontamination clay bar treatment uses a specialized putty and high-lubricity solutions to carefully remove these bonded contaminants from your paint.
  • If your paint feels gritty even after a wash and wax, it may need a clay bar treatment.
  • After a clay bar treatment, your paint will feel as smooth as glass; its gloss may increase. 
  • When needed, clay bar treatments are extremely beneficial and prescriptive.
  • But clay bar treatments are hard on your paint; in most cases, spot clay bar treatments are enough.Other cars do require a generalized clay bar treatment.
  • After washing your car and performing a chemical decontamination, we inspect your car’s panels and perform a clay bar treatments as needed; including the entire car, if needed.
One-Step Paint Correction Polishing

Makes your car’s paint brighter, its gloss, better, light swirl-marks, scuffs, scratches gone, well-cared paint like new.

  • We use professional-grade random orbital polishers, medium-to-firm foam polishing pads, and polishing solutions akin to 3D One Hybrid Compound Polish
  • Effective use of modern hybrid polishing solutions allow for appreciable paint correction with a fine finish, all in a single pass
  • Impactful use of polishing budget
  • This process is practically incapable of burning paint
  • This polishing process is gentle, removing about 0.2 mils of paint
  • While this One-Step Paint Correction service will not correct deeper scuffs, oxidation, swirl-marks, scratches, or spotting, it will make all paint look better, and can make lightly blemished paint look new
Apply Six-Month Ceramic Sealant Wax

Your car’s paint, protected from the elements, with enhanced shine.

  • We apply a ceramic-infused sealant wax that protects your paint from Sun and chemical damage, and enhances its shine.
  • This sealant wax is tested to protect your paint for up to one year, but we recommend reapplication every six months.
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Two-Step Paint Correction

Your Car Paint, Rejuvenated

Make your car’s paint brilliant.

Two-Step Paint Correction Package

Your Car Paint, Rejuvenated

Makes your paint brilliant.

Remove swirls, scuffs, scratches.

Includes clay bar and Iron X decontamination treatments, multiple paint thickness measurements, taping, two mechanical polishing passes, one using a compounding polish, another using a finishing polish, and application of ceramic sealant wax:

Paint Inspection

Inspect and assess vehicle’s paint vis-à-vis paint correction:

  • Use digital paint thickness meter
  • Gather paint history Formulate and present a paint correction opinion
  • Answer these questions: should the vehicle be polished? How? Why? Why not?
  • Suggest next steps
 
Chemical Decontamination (Iron X)

Your car’s paint protected from those easy-to-develop tiny rust spots.

  • Over time, iron filings and other pollutants etch into and accumulate on your car’s paint. These embedded iron filings result in the tiny rust-colored spots most easily seen on white cars, but visible on all colors.
  • Chemical treatment dissolves iron filings and other contaminants without damaging your car’s paint or trim.
  • Protects and brightens your paint.
  • Prepares your paint for fresh sealant wax or polishing.
Mechanical Decontamination (Clay Bar)

Your paint smooth to the touch; possibly enhanced gloss; prepared for sealant wax and polishing.

  • At times, contaminants remain etched in your paint even after washing, waxing, and chemical treatments. This mechanical decontamination clay bar treatment uses a specialized putty and high-lubricity solutions to carefully remove these bonded contaminants from your paint.
  • If your paint feels gritty even after a wash and wax, it may need a clay bar treatment.
  • After a clay bar treatment, your paint will feel as smooth as glass; its gloss may increase. 
  • When needed, clay bar treatments are extremely beneficial and prescriptive.
  • But clay bar treatments are hard on your paint; in most cases, spot clay bar treatments are enough.Other cars do require a generalized clay bar treatment.
  • After washing your car and performing a chemical decontamination, we inspect your car’s panels and perform a clay bar treatments as needed; including the entire car, if needed.
Additional Paint Thickness Measurements

Because paint compounding may remove a fair amount of paint, we take numerous paint thickness measurements to ensure your paint is sufficiently thick for the process.

Tape & Protect Trim & Adjoining Panels

We tape edges and trim to perform the compounding polishing process safely.

Polishing Step One: Compounding Pass

Course compounding polishing pass removes from your paint swirl-marks, scuffs, and surface scratches.

  • Compounding is only performed if the paint thickness gauge and assessment determines the paint is of sufficient thickness and quality 
  • We use professional-grade random orbital polishers, microfiber or hybrid heavy-correction cutting polishing pads, and compounding solutions like Meguiar’s 105
  • The compounding pass effectively corrects superficial paint imperfections, like swirls, scuffs, and scratches, but leaves hazing and other compounding artifacts in the paint
  • These compounding artifacts are removed during the second pass, the polishing pass
  • The compounding process removes 0.3 mils or up to 5% of paint, whichever is less
Polishing Step Two: Polishing Pass

Removes the expect haze and holograms put in your paint by the paint compounding process. 

  • We use professional-grade random orbital polishers, medium-to-firm foam polishing pads, and a finishing polish solution like Meguiar’s 205
  • This polishing process is gentle, removing less than 0.1 mils of paint
  • The finishing pass draws your paint’s glow
Apply Six-Month Ceramic Sealant Wax

Your car’s paint, protected from the elements, with enhanced shine.

  • We apply a ceramic-infused sealant wax that protects your paint from Sun and chemical damage, and enhances its shine.
  • This sealant wax is tested to protect your paint for up to one year, but we recommend reapplication every six months.
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Showroom Paint Correction

Your Car Paint, Glowing

Make your paint as close to like-new as safely possible.

Showroom Paint Correction Package

Your Car Paint, Glowing

Makes your car paint as close to new as possible.

Strives to remove all swirls, scuffs, scratches.

Includes clay bar and Iron X decontamination treatments, numerous paint thickness measurements, taping, wet/color sanding, two mechanical polishing passes, one using a compounding polish, another using a finishing polish, and application of ceramic sealant wax:

Paint Inspection

Inspect and assess vehicle’s paint vis-à-vis paint correction:

  • Use digital paint thickness meter
  • Gather paint history Formulate and present a paint correction opinion
  • Answer these questions: should the vehicle be polished? How? Why? Why not?
  • Suggest next steps
 
Chemical Decontamination (Iron X)

Your car’s paint protected from those easy-to-develop tiny rust spots.

  • Over time, iron filings and other pollutants etch into and accumulate on your car’s paint. These embedded iron filings result in the tiny rust-colored spots most easily seen on white cars, but visible on all colors.
  • Chemical treatment dissolves iron filings and other contaminants without damaging your car’s paint or trim.
  • Protects and brightens your paint.
  • Prepares your paint for fresh sealant wax or polishing.
Mechanical Decontamination (Clay Bar)

Your paint smooth to the touch; possibly enhanced gloss; prepared for sealant wax and polishing.

  • At times, contaminants remain etched in your paint even after washing, waxing, and chemical treatments. This mechanical decontamination clay bar treatment uses a specialized putty and high-lubricity solutions to carefully remove these bonded contaminants from your paint.
  • If your paint feels gritty even after a wash and wax, it may need a clay bar treatment.
  • After a clay bar treatment, your paint will feel as smooth as glass; its gloss may increase. 
  • When needed, clay bar treatments are extremely beneficial and prescriptive.
  • But clay bar treatments are hard on your paint; in most cases, spot clay bar treatments are enough.Other cars do require a generalized clay bar treatment.
  • After washing your car and performing a chemical decontamination, we inspect your car’s panels and perform a clay bar treatments as needed; including the entire car, if needed.
Continuous Paint Thickness Measurements

Because paint wet sanding and compounding may remove a fair amount of paint, we take continuous paint thickness measurements to ensure your paint is sufficiently thick for the process. We stop wet-sanding or compounding your paint well within safety bounds, even if it means we can’t remove a scratch.

Tape & Protect Trim & Adjoining Panels

We tape edges and trim to protect them prior to the wet-sanding or compounding polishing process.

Spot Wet (Color) Sanding

Wet sanding removes deeper scuffs, scratches, and spots.

  • We primarily use 3,000, 5,000, and 8,000 grit 3M Trizact wet sandpaper
  • Although we carry grittier sandpaper, we rarely use it
  • This package only includes spot wet-sanding
  • This wet-sanding process removes 0.3 mils or up to 5% of paint, whichever is less
Polishing Step One: Compounding Pass

Course compounding polishing pass removes from your paint swirl-marks, scuffs, and surface scratches.

  • Compounding is only performed if the paint thickness gauge and assessment determines the paint is of sufficient thickness and quality 
  • We use professional-grade random orbital polishers, microfiber or hybrid heavy-correction cutting polishing pads, and compounding solutions like Meguiar’s 105
  • The compounding pass effectively corrects superficial paint imperfections, like swirls, scuffs, and scratches, but leaves hazing and other compounding artifacts in the paint
  • These compounding artifacts are removed during the second pass, the polishing pass
  • The compounding process removes 0.3 mils or up to 5% of paint, whichever is less
Polishing Step Two: Polishing Pass

Removes the expect haze and holograms put in your paint by the paint compounding process. 

  • We use professional-grade random orbital polishers, medium-to-firm foam polishing pads, and a finishing polish solution like Meguiar’s 205
  • This polishing process is gentle, removing less than 0.1 mils of paint
  • The finishing pass draws your paint’s glow
Apply Six-Month Ceramic Sealant Wax

Your car’s paint, protected from the elements, with enhanced shine.

  • We apply a ceramic-infused sealant wax that protects your paint from Sun and chemical damage, and enhances its shine.
  • This sealant wax is tested to protect your paint for up to one year, but we recommend reapplication every six months.
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Stand-alone Services

Scratch & scuff removal, hard-water spots removal, overspray removal, in-person consultation & test-panels.

Learn more below.

Paint Correction Add-Ons and Stand-Alone Services

Professional vehicle body polishing

Scratch & Scuff Removal

We remove superficial scuffs and scratches from your vehicle's paint.

Measuring paint cover thickness of the car body at the service

In-Person Consultation

We come to your location and inspect your paint with our paint-thickness meter. We share our thoughts and recommendations with you, and perform a test-panel, if wanted.

Paint Correction Pricing

One-Step Paint Correction Package from $520

Removes fine swirls and scratches. Includes a decontamination hand car wash, iron remover treatment, clay bar treatment, one-step machine and hand polishing, and six-month ceramic sealant wax.

from $520
Two-Step Paint Correction Package from $720

Removes deeper swirls and scratches. Includes a decontamination hand car wash, iron remover treatment, clay bar treatment, machine and hand compounding pass, machine and hand polishing pass, and six-month ceramic sealant wax.

from $720
Showroom Paint Correction Package from $800

Strives to leave the paint looking like new. Includes everything the Two-Step Paint Correction Package, plus spot wet-sanding.

from $800
Scratch & Scuff Removal Service from $165

Price varies depending on the extent of damage.

from $165
Etched-in Hard Water Spots Removal Service from $370

Price may vary depending on the severity of damage.

from $370
Overspray Removal with Polishing from $370

Price may vary depending on the severity of damage.

from $370
In-Person Paint Correction Consultation from $80

We come and inspect your vehicle’s paint using our specialized light and paint-depth meter to recommend appropriate paint correction services.

from $80
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Paint Correction Los Angeles

Your Car, Brilliant

Why Our Paint Correction Service

We make your car’s paint look great.

Auto Detail Los Angeles’ paint correction professionals have the training, tools, solutions, and experience to safely polish your vehicle’s paint to spec.

We can safely remove from most car’s paint oxidation, swirl marks, surface scuffs and scratches, hard-water spots, and bird-dropping etchings.

We liven cars’ paint; make the paint brighter, shinier, glossier. Blacks become blacker; reds redder; metallics shimmi-er.

Paint correction is creatively destructive—the mechanical refinement of the outermost layer of your car’s paint. We make your paint shinier by literally smoothing microscopically-minute amounts away.

Our paint correction process is slow, methodical, customized just for you. We care for your car or truck as you would, had you the time and tools.

Auto Detail Los Angeles is conservative.

Our paint correction process begins with careful inspection of your paint to ensure it can tolerate polishing.

This inspection includes numerous readings with our professional-grade digital paint thickness meter.

Readings from the paint thickness meter informs us if and how much we can polish a particular section or panel of your vehicle’s paint.

We then discuss our findings with you and, if polishing is the plan, perform a test-panel.

Our “test-panel” phase proves our recommended course of action. We take a piece of tape, section-off a panel, and polish one side of the panel to see a side-by-side comparison; a before and after.

We share the findings and consult with you once more, modify the process if needed, or proceed if you like the results.

A big part of successful paint correction is in the preparation of the car’s panels, and paint correction specialist.

Your car’s panels have to be 100% free of contaminants, or those contaminants may embed in the polishing pad, potentially making your paint worse. Thus, prior to successful polishing, you need a 100% clean car exterior.

To get your car 100% clean and ready for polishing, we perform the process described in our Gold Exterior Detailing package. That service includes a thorough decontamination car wash with shampoos designed to safely remove old waxes or sealants, and chemical and mechanical decontamination treatments (Iron X and clay bar) to safely remove entrenched grit from your paint. Only after these and several more prep steps, including taping your car’s trim and adjoining panels, do we begin polishing.

Our paint correction specialists have the right training, tools, solutions, temperament, and touch for paint correction. For paint correction, you need the right judgment; you have to know when to place more or less pressure on the machine, more or less solution, when to concede to a scratch or scuff. For paint correction, you can’t be stubborn. Diligent, yes. Thorough, yes. Meticulous, yes. Stubborn, no. We know and respect the limits—our limits. You need the patience to let tools and products do their work—the temperament to not stubbornly burn the paint. This comes from experience, ability, character—the foundational qualifications of our paint correction specialists.

Our paint correction service is concierge; cut-and-tailored just for you.

And while we do offer paint correction packages, they serve only as starting-points for your customized service. We also offer a la carte paint correction services, like scratch removal, water spots removal, in-person assessments of your paint, and test-panels.

The mainstays of our paint correction tools and solutions are our professional-grade dual-action polishers, both short- and long-throw, dozens of professional-grade polishing pads of various types for various applications, Meguiar’s 105 compound and 205 polish, 3D One all-in-one hybrid compound and polish, 3M automotive tape of various sizes, various grits and sizes of paint-finishing wet sandpaper, sanding blocks, a digital paint-thickness meter, deionized spot-free water system, and dozens of microfiber towels of different types of the highest quality. And, for a small additional fee, we can use only new microfibers towels, polishing pads, and wash media on your car.

With us you get rounded service.

You get the benefit of us using the right tools, the right way, efficiently.

You get the benefit of the work being done by a professional car detailer, member of the International Detailing Association, courteous, polite, experienced.

You get the benefit of the work being done at your home or office—no need to put miles nor turn your back on your car.

And, the potential difference in our price is more than offset by your car’s retained or increased value, increased utility, and the billions’ worth in your freed time.

Even diamonds need polishing.

A shiny car reflects on you.

Enjoy your time, brilliantly.

Book online below or by contacting us.

You have earned a shiny car. Contact us  and Book today.
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Albert C.
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Alex did the best job I could ask for. Had a previous detailer do paint correction and they made it worse. Alex explained everything to be detail by detail and let me aware of the risk. Glad I told him to go for it. Car looks amazing. Should have used him in the first place! Highly recommended, knows what he’s doing and very friendly.
Sumeet G.
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Alex did a fantastic job with my Audi A4. I had scratches on the side which he removed. Looks good as new!
Gadget H.
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Had Alex come over and tackle the scratches and spider webbing in the clear coat on my 2008 Black Pontiac Solstice GXP. Black is always tough and especially on a 14 year old GM product. Alex spent an entire day patiently working the paint and I must say the results were better than i had hoped. Patient, diligent and gentle on the car. Very respectful of everything and everyone during the process. Perfect experience and highly recommended old school car care. Thanks again Alex!Thank you!​
Mr. Andrew
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Alex was very professional from the moment he answered the phone when I first inquired about his services. He was very upfront about costs yet worked within my budget as well. He performed paint correction on my vehicle as well as headlight polishing and both were done with great results. Although he could have easily charged me more for a 2 pass buffing to make the paint almost factory-like, he was straightforward about the risk of not having any clear coat after doing so which could lead to even worse paint degradation in the future. Would definitely recommend and use his services again. Thank you!​
Ms. Chrysanthy
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Alex was on time, quoted a fair price and did a wonderful job. We’ll be using him again and passing his information on to friends.
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FAQ

Most frequent questions and answers

A mil is a thousandth of an inch. It is the standard unit of paint-thickness measurement in the U.S.A. Our paint-depth meter reads in mils.

A test panel is a process whereby we prove or refine our recommended paint correction steps. We frame an approximately 5″ square of your car’s paint with tape and correct it using our suggested paint correction process to prove the results.

No; we currently only offer mobile auto detailing, paint correction, and car wash services.

Yes; we offer multiple-car, referral, repeat-customer, and other discounts.

We offer mobile paint correction services throughout Los Angeles County and north-western Orange County.

Auto Detail Los Angeles is based near the border of 90022 and 91754.

Our pricing already includes travel costs to dozens of nearby areas, but Los Angeles is immense, and some locations require a mileage surcharge.

Please contact us to learn if your location requires a mileage surcharge. We can also let you know soon after you book online.

In most cases, your driveway or garage.

Yes; please visit our car detailing gift certificates page to learn more.

Some services require scheduling over two or more days.

Yes.

Yes. Auto Detail Los Angeles carries insurance from State Farm.

We accept cash, credit cards, PayPal, Venmo, and Zelle.

Yes

Yes.

Not currently; but we continually review our services and may offer these in the future.

No; working on your car while it is parked on the street is illegal per Los Angeles County Codes 15.76.130 and 15.76.120.

Further, our car detailers are prohibited from working anywhere they feel unsafe.

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