Paint Correction is a professional detailing process that removes imperfections from your vehicle’s clear coat, restoring its original shine. Using advanced polishing techniques, it eliminates swirl marks, scratches, oxidation, and other blemishes for a flawless, showroom-quality finish.
✅ Removes Swirls, Scratches & Oxidation
Restores the paint to its original, smooth condition by eliminating defects caused by washing, environmental exposure, and daily wear.
✅ Restores Gloss & Depth
Enhances color clarity and creates a reflective, mirror-like finish that makes your vehicle stand out.
✅ Prepares Your Vehicle for Protection
Optimizes the surface for coatings like ceramic or wax, ensuring better bonding and longer-lasting protection.
✅ Improves Vehicle Value
A defect-free, glossy finish increases aesthetic appeal and can help maintain resale value.
✅ Long-Lasting Results with Proper Care
When maintained correctly, paint correction keeps your vehicle looking freshly detailed for months or even years.
1-Step Polish, or Paint Enhancement Polish, is a professional detailing process that improves your vehicle’s paint by removing light swirls, minor scratches, and oxidation.
It restores depth, clarity, and gloss, giving your car a refreshed, vibrant finish. This process enhances color and shine without the time or cost of full paint correction.
It also prepares the surface for protective coatings, ensuring longer-lasting results.
Ideal for maintaining a showroom-quality look, 1-Step Polish keeps your paint looking its best between full corrections.
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2-Step Polish is an advanced paint enhancement process that combines compounding and polishing to remove deeper scratches, oxidation, and swirl marks.
It restores the paint’s clarity, depth, and gloss, leaving a smooth, mirror-like finish.
It also prepares the surface for protective coatings like ceramic or wax, ensuring longer-lasting results.
Ideal for vehicles showing visible wear, 2-Step Polish brings back a showroom-quality finish with dramatic improvement.
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Polishing can refer to light enhancement, while paint correction often involves multiple steps, including compounding and polishing, to remove deeper defects.
It removes most surface-level and moderate scratches but cannot fix deep paint damage or chips that go through the clear coat.
Depending on the vehicle’s condition and the number of steps required, it can take up to a full day or more.
Yes, but the extent of correction depends on the paint’s condition, thickness, and age.
It’s not a regular maintenance service; usually once every few years, or as needed when defects become noticeable.
Paint correction itself doesn’t add protection, but it prepares the surface for coatings, wax, or ceramic treatments that do.
Yes, but it’s recommended to wait at least 24–48 hours and use gentle, pH-neutral products to maintain the finish.
Costs vary depending on the vehicle’s condition, size, and the number of steps required and the level of protection desired.
1-Step polish (paint enhancement) removes minor swirls and light imperfections, while 2-Step polish combines compounding and polishing to correct deeper scratches and oxidation.
Absolutely. Paint correction is recommended before coatings to ensure the surface is flawless and the coating bonds properly.
We’re always eager to hear from you and help in any way we can. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us through any of the following methods:
402 Birch Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402
info@goldenstateautosalon.com
+ (650) 539-8626
Your leading specialists in Paint Protection Films (PPF), Window Tinting, Ceramic Coating and Vehicle Color Wraps in the Bay Area.
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