Paint Correction in Southam

Country cars get scratched by being cleaned. Around Southam that is the whole story of most of the paint we correct: mud from the lanes to Napton and Harbury dries on, gets washed off with a sponge and a bucket that is more grit than water by the end, and the lacquer records every stroke. After a few winters a dark car has a uniform dullness across it that the owner has stopped seeing. It is not worn out. It is scratched, and scratches in clear coat can be polished out.

That is what correction is — a machine polish that levels the lacquer by removing a few microns so the marks that scatter light are gone. On a rural car that has never been polished the result tends to surprise people, because the colour comes back. We measure paint depth on every panel first, test an area, and recommend the level the paint needs: often a single-stage Enhancement Detail for a well-used but not abused car, a multi-stage correction where the marring is heavier.

We work on your driveway across the town and the villages; a Southam drive with a socket is all we need for a full day. Because correction removes damage but does not stop it recurring, we protect the paint before we leave and show you how to wash a country car without scratching it — and for a car that meets mud every week, a ceramic coating over the corrected finish is the difference between doing this once and doing it again in three years.