Royal Car Care Mobile Paint Correction Detail

Not to be confused with Clay Bar, which removes contaminants from the paint, Paint Correction is the removal of paint imperfections caused by fine scratches, swirls, holograms, and oxidation, which makes your car paint cloudy or hazy. Oxidation is due to a lack of regular waxing or the proper application of a protective sealant. Holograms are caused by heat from a rotary buffer that leaves your clear coat looking smudged.

Your Clear Coat is a Barrier

Your clear coat protects your paint, so it is appropriate that it take the brunt of any flying road debris, especially in sandy South Florida where sand often leaves scratches on the lower front fascia, bumper, and body side moldings of your car. Hauling Christmas trees and other items, as well as lightly sideswiping almost anything, will cause scratches on your paint.

Beware Inexperienced Detailers!

Ironically, however, the most common culprit for fine scratches, swirls, and holograms are automated carwashes and inexperienced detailers! In spite of innovative soft-brush technology, some carwashes still leave fine scratches and swirl marks, which are just micro-scratches, on your clear coat, usually after repeated use. Older model carwashes are notorious for it.

Inexperienced detailers and Do-it-Yourselfers are often the worst offenders. They often fail to rinse thoroughly the dirt off the vehicle with a lubricating shampoo before scrubbing, which results in the dirt itself acting like an abrasive. In addition, using dirty rags, sponges and towels when washing and drying, grind the dirt into the clear coat causing fine scratches.

Holograms are deeper than scratches and swirls and are caused almost exclusively by an inexperienced buffer-wielding detailer with little training in the finesse of controlling heat with a rotary buffer, causing distortions in the clear coat that are difficult, but not impossible for paint correction professionals like RCC to get out.

Paint Correction Saves Your Shine

On the surface, paint correction techniques sound simply horrendous. It involves removing and re-leveling 1 to 2 microns of your clear coat using an abrasive method, and then buffing it back out to a shine; however, when you realize that a standard sheet of typing paper is approximately 97 microns, it is a little less terrifying than it sounds. In fact, it makes sense to remove that damaged layer of the clear so the paint can shine through as it was originally designed to do!

Long-term Paint Protection

Now that you understand what causes the need for paint correction, you can understand why doing everything possible to prevent it in the future is equally as important as correcting it!

After buffing your newly corrected paint out to a brilliant shine, RCC specialists move to protect it using either a long-lasting wax sealant or a new semi-permanent coating (this will link to that page) that actually repels dirt and scratches for several months at a time.

Over time, your vehicle will still require lighter, periodic paint correction as fine scratches and even swirls re-appear over the natural lifetime of your vehicle, especially under South Florida conditions. However, with an RCC specialist monitoring the health of your car’s exterior, your vehicle will remain shiny for longer lengths of time, and with less intensity thanks to regular cleanings, wax or wax sealants, and coatings.

A Paint Protection Detail includes:

• Exterior pretreat using foam cannon to loosen all dirt, grime and debris prior to hand washing

• A professional hand wash utilizing Microfiber washing mitts and wheel brushes

• Gentle hand dry utilizing safe Microfiber waffle weave towels and compressed air

• Wipe-down of all door jams

• Complete Interior vacuum & trunk organization

• Thorough wipe-down of dashboard area, cup holders, and doors

• Interior & exterior window cleaning

• Clay bar treatment on all painted surfaces in order to remove all embedded contaminants and debris fallout

• Multiple stage paint correction using the finest compounds and polishes to re-level the imperfections in the vehicles clear coat and ensure a crystal clear reflection.

• Complete Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) wipe down to remove any polish residue that has been left behind. This ensures the paint is properly prepped before a protectant is applied.

• Professional application of hand wax, hand sealant or a semi-permanent coating to all painted surfaces

• A complete cleaning and conditioning of all exterior plastic and trim

• Rim faces cleaned and tires treated with water based, non-sling tire dressing

• Air freshener upon request

Available Upgrades:

• Professional application of a semi-permanent coating to all painted surfaces - $250

• Inside-out rim barrels cleaning and treated with a semi-permanent coating - $50 per rim

• Interior Vapor steam cleaning and leather treatment - $125

• Paint Protection Film (PPF) kits to provide the ultimate protection to the vehicles paint surfaces - vary per kit

• High Performance Window Protection Film to provide unparalleled interior heat rejection and clarity - vary per kit

Prices may vary according to vehicle size, type, and condition.

A single step paint correction is required to vehicles with a darker paint finish

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