Hello, Kansas City. Welcome back to the Bespoke Automotive Refinement Podcast. We are so thankful to have you on.
We love coming on here every week and talking cars and detailing and Kansas City car detailing and just all the things that we offer the Kansas City area with our Kansas City car detailing services. Guys, right now I am working on a very unique project. I am working on a 2025 Ferrari 296 GTB Spyder.
This car has less than 100 miles on it. I’ll be honest, I checked it. I’m a little dyslexic.
I can’t remember if it said 72 miles or 17 miles. It’s one or the other, but I’ll be honest, I can’t remember which one it is. Regardless, that’s what we’re working on right now at Bespoke Refinement.
I got to tell you, this car is receiving an extensive amount of paint correction work. We’ve already wet sanded part of the car down. There’s parts of the car that have been refinished with compound.
Then there’s other parts of the car that the piano black, I’m just not going to be able to work it very much. I’ve actually performed a single step polish on and then ceramic coated to really add a bunch of protection to the paint and also bring back that rich black finish that the car really deserved to have. It got me thinking, do people really understand why you get a car paint corrected when it’s brand new? Even I used to say, why does a car need to be paint corrected if it’s got less than 100 miles on it? This Ferrari that I’m working on really is the perfect example of that.
It has defects really in the corners of the panel where the manufacturer after they sanded the car down and polished it out, they missed the corners, they missed the edges. You’ve got a lot of dullness around the edges that hide this car’s true depth, hide its true finish, what this car really deserves to look like. Today, I’m going to be talking about the different ways to perform a paint correction.
First, I’m going to break down the way that I’m performing this paint correction, and then we’re going to break down other ways to do it because there’s more than one way. So, the first way of, I guess, understanding what type of paint correction a car needs is you have to recognize that every car is different, every paint finish is different, the clear coat’s different, and it’s all going to react differently to different types of processes on the clear coat. So, let’s say you buy a 3-in-1 polish and a 3-in-1, so basically what a 3-in-1 is, it’s a polish, it’s a compound, and it’s a wax or it’s a ceramic wax essentially.
And these products can be great for doing a quick polish on a car to make the paint look glossy, to get rid of light swirls, to the average person make the car look really good. The problem that I have with the 2-in-1s is, or even the 3-in-1s, is you’re taking three processes that require multiple different speeds, multiple different pads, multiple different pressures, and you’re putting them all into one and hoping that you can get a really good finish. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t.
And in the instance of most jobs, I don’t really prefer doing the 3-in-1s. I think that the product can come out a little hazy, may look a little dull, not really a fan of the way that it comes out, not really a fan of the way it finishes out. I’m a fan of the single-stage paint correction.
Single-stage paint correction is the process of finding numerous different kinds of pads, polishes, and then testing your pressure and your speed. You may try four or five different spots on the on the panel before you find the one that gets you the most gloss, reduces the most amount, or removes the most amount of defects. And really, you can perform a single-stage paint correction in just a few hours and completely alter the way a car looks.
This is a package that so many people love because it’s a cost-effective way to make your paint look good, and I refer to it as a gloss enhancement. Now, the flip side to that point is you’re not removing neat paint defects like orange peel, deep scratches, sanding marks, micro marring. You’re not removing any of that.
You’re just removing light scratches from maybe wiping the car down or washing scratches, and then you’re rehydrating the clear coat. The best way to really get a true, deep, gloss finish out of a paint job is a two- or three-stage paint correction. And now, obviously, as you keep going up in stage, you’re adding more steps to the process, which take time, which cost more.
So, it really depends on what goals you’re looking to achieve with your vehicle’s paint finish. However, my personal preference is to three-stage every car. A three-stage paint correction is the process of wet sanding the car down using a DA.
I won’t go any lower than 2,000. I prefer to do 3,000. The 3,000 grit is going to knock down most of the factory orange peel.
It’s going to knock down all of the scratches, and it’s going to smooth the car out, make it look more even. If you’ve got a panel that was sprayed that’s fiberglass, and then you’ve got another panel that’s, say, metal, the two may have cured differently because they cured differently. One may have more of an orange peel effect to it than the other.
So, wet sanding and then finishing that out is what will really make the whole car blend together perfectly. Well, guys, if you are looking to book a Kansas City Car Detailing Package, or if you’re looking to get more information on all of our different Kansas City Car Detailing Services, you can give me a call at 620-282-0402. You can also go online to bespokerefinement.com. There you can check out a list of all of our different Kansas City Car Detailing Packages and Services that we have to offer the Kansas City area.
And if you’re looking to get further information on any of our Kansas City Car Detailing Packages, you can email me at info at bespokerefinement.com.