In the sun your paint looks like a spider web
Those fine circles are wash scratches. They sit in the clear coat and cannot be wiped away — but they can be polished out.
Working scratches, wash marks and holograms out of the clear coat — measured, established in a test section, as gentle as possible and as strong as necessary.
In machine polishing, a wafer-thin layer of clear coat is removed until the edges of the scratches are gone. Beforehand we measure the paint thickness and lay out a test section to find the mildest combination of compound and pad that still works. Afterwards the polishing oils are removed so that any subsequent protection can bond at all.
Those fine circles are wash scratches. They sit in the clear coat and cannot be wiped away — but they can be polished out.
Visual condition is the first thing a buyer or a return inspection report assesses. Corrected paint shifts the negotiation before it begins.
A coating preserves the condition it finds. Scratches under a coating are locked in for its lifetime — which is why polishing always comes first.
6 work steps, in order
Chemically first (iron and tar residue), then mechanically with a clay bar. Polishing a surface with embedded particles means dragging those particles across the paint.
Trim, rubber seals and edges are masked off. At an edge the paint is thinnest and closest to the polishing machine.
At several points per panel. Factory paint totals 80 to 160 micrometres, of which 20 to 50 micrometres are clear coat. Where there is too little reserve, we do not polish — there we tell you that it is a case for a respray.
On a small area we try combinations of compound and pad until the desired result is achieved with the least removal. Only then does it go onto the whole vehicle.
One or more stages, depending on condition. The finishing stage is not cosmetics: it resolves the holograms that the cutting stage itself created.
Finally the surface is degreased with panel wipe and inspected under an inspection lamp. If polishing oils are left behind, the paint looks perfect on the day — and the protective layer on top of it does not hold.
Before treatmentClear coat is finite. Every polish uses up part of it, and what is once gone does not come back. That is why we measure beforehand. A scratch you can feel with your fingernail goes through the clear coat — that cannot be polished out, only resprayed. We tell you before the work what is possible and what is not, instead of explaining afterwards why one spot remained.
The one-step polish is included from package M onwards, the two-stage polish from package L. One- to three-stage polishing can also be booked separately as an add-on.
Yes, and that is precisely why we measure. A high-gloss polish removes roughly one to three micrometres, a two-stage correction three to six. With a rotary machine and an aggressive cutting compound it can be five to twenty. With 20 to 50 micrometres of clear coat, that is the difference between once and never. We work with the remaining reserve, not on assumption.
Swirl marks are wash scratches — fine circles created during cleaning. Holograms are polishing defects: streaky smears left behind by a rotary machine that only a dual-action finishing stage resolves. Treating both the same means polishing past the problem.
There is no fixed number, there is a remaining reserve. We measure it. Anyone having the whole car corrected every two years uses up their clear coat faster than someone who has it corrected properly once and protected afterwards.
No. Anything sitting in the clear coat can as a rule be reduced considerably or removed entirely. Anything going through the clear coat cannot. Providers who promise “like new” without measuring are promising something they cannot know.
We work exclusively at our site on Sternmatt 9 in Kriens near Lucerne. You bring your vehicle at the agreed time and collect it once the work is done. We do not offer a mobile on-site service.
Sternmatt 9, 6010 Kriens
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