Paint Correction vs a Polish: What You're Actually Paying For

A glaze or filler-heavy polish can make paint look excellent for a few weeks. Machine correction is different: it levels a microscopically thin amount of clear coat so the defect is physically gone.

That's why correction is always quoted after inspection. Paint hardness, thickness and defect depth vary between manufacturers, between panels, and between a factory finish and a repaint.

Sometimes the honest answer is one stage. A single enhancement pass removes most wash marring and restores a lot of gloss at a much lower cost than a multi-stage job — and on a daily-driven Alaskan vehicle, that's often the right call.

Sometimes the honest answer is that a deep scratch has gone through the clear coat and no amount of polishing will fix it safely. We would rather tell you that up front than take your money and hand back a vehicle that looks the same.