Paint Correction in Shipston-on-Stour

The lanes around Shipston put grit on cars in two forms — limestone dust in summer, mud in winter — and both get scrubbed off bare paint by owners who have no alternative. After a few years the lacquer carries the record: a fine, uniform scratching across the lower panels, a haze on the bonnet where the mitt always goes first, and a dullness on dark cars that no wash improves. It looks like wear. It is not; it is scratching in the clear coat, and it can be removed.

A machine polish levels the lacquer so the scratches that scatter light are gone, and the colour and reflection come back. For most village-kept cars here a single-stage Enhancement Detail is the right level; where the scrubbing has been heavier, a single-stage Refined Correction follows the cutting pass with a refining one. We measure the paint on every panel before we start, because a car that has been polished before, or carries a resprayed panel, needs a different approach.

Shipston is the far south of our coverage, so we plan correction properly: photos first so we can gauge the paint, then a fixed date — usually grouped with work in the Stratford direction — and the whole job completed in one full day on your driveway. We protect the finish before we leave and recommend a ceramic coating over it, because the lanes will still be there next winter and a coated car sheds their mud with a rinse instead of a scrub.