Take the salt haze and swirls out of the paint

No. Correction works by removing clear coat until the surface around a defect is flat — that's the whole trick. It also means the paint has to have enough left to give. If your clear coat is too thin, we'll measure, tell you, and decline the job rather than burn through it. There's no undo on that.

Only scratches that live within the clear coat — that top layer is all we have to work with. Quick home test: drag a fingernail across the scratch. If it glides over, polishing can probably handle it. If it catches, the scratch has likely gone through, and that's touch-up or body shop territory. Send us a photo and we'll tell you which it is before you book anything.

No — correction works on the paint's surface, not the metal under it. A dent with unbroken paint is a job for paintless dent repair, and we're happy to point you to it.

Usually it improves dramatically — but not always completely. Those three are acidic, and when they sit in the sun they etch down into the clear coat. Extreme etching is permanent. We'll tell you what will move and what won't while we're looking at the paint, not after.

Not the color — that lives in the paint itself, and it's a refinish conversation with the body shop. What we can fix is texture: wet sanding levels the orange peel a repaint often leaves, so the panel matches the factory finish to the eye and the hand. Same texture, same gloss — the color stays whatever the shop sprayed.

The defects we remove are gone for good — but here, narrow roads and bushes scratch paint back up quickly. Automatic car washes and dry-wiping dusty paint are the other two swirl factories. Hand washing keeps corrected paint looking corrected, and a ceramic coating on top makes it easier still.