Zea Detailing

Cars · Exotics, collections & dailies

Swirl-free, show-ready — in your own garage

Measured, multi-stage machine polishing that removes swirls, water etching, and holograms from exotic and luxury paint — verified under inspection light.

Black Ferrari 458 nose with corrected, flawless paint

What it is: Paint correction is the controlled machine polishing of a car's clear coat to permanently remove swirl marks, scratches, water spots, and hazing. Unlike a quick polish that fills defects for a few weeks, correction removes them, restoring true depth and reflection.

Scope: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren, Bentley, Range Rover, G-Wagon, Tesla, Raptors and Denalis — one-step enhancement to multi-stage correction, performed at your home.

Exotic paint is thin, expensive, and unforgiving. Our correction work is built around that reality: paint assessed panel by panel, test spots before any machine touches the car, the least-aggressive process that achieves the result, and inspection lighting at every stage. The same discipline applies to a Model X or an F-150 as to a 458 — there is no B-team process.

Correction vs. a 'polish'

Correction is measured defect removal — swirls, water etching, buffer trails — verified under inspection lighting, stage by stage. A quick gloss-up polish hides defects with fillers that wash out in weeks. Correction removes them. It is the single biggest visual upgrade a car can get, and the only right foundation for a ceramic coating.

Dark colors and metallics show the difference most dramatically: a corrected black Ferrari reads like liquid; an uncorrected one looks like a spider web under the sun.

Conservative by design

Limited-production paint and repainted panels get conservative, test-spot-first methods, measured passes, and full documentation. We treat a seven-figure car like the irreplaceable object it is — and we're insured accordingly.

The process

How paint correction gets done right

  1. 01

    Paint assessment

    Panel-by-panel inspection under lighting; test spot to choose the gentlest effective combination.

  2. 02

    Wash & decontamination

    Iron remover, tar remover, and clay — the paint is clinically clean before any pad touches it.

  3. 03

    Cutting stage

    Compound removes the defect depth chosen in the assessment — no more.

  4. 04

    Finishing stage

    Fine polish restores clarity and jetting for true depth of reflection.

  5. 05

    Protection

    Sealant, or ceramic coating for multi-year results — never left bare.

Paint Correction FAQ

Good questions

How long does paint correction take?

A one-step enhancement on a well-kept car is usually a full day. A multi-stage correction on an exotic or a neglected dark car is one to two days — we don't rush paint, and we don't count hours against your result.

Will correction remove all scratches?

It removes everything that lives in the clear coat: swirls, light scratches, water etching, holograms. A scratch you can catch a fingernail in is usually through the clear and needs touch-up or paint — we'll tell you honestly during the assessment.

Do you correct wrapped or PPF-covered cars?

We correct exposed paint before PPF is applied and gently polish PPF and vinyl only when the film maker allows it. Ask us — we'd rather advise than guess with your car.

Is it safe to do this at my home?

Yes — we bring water, power, lighting, and a controlled process to your garage or motor court. Your car never sits in a strange lot, and you never wait in a lobby.

Tell us the car and what bothers you about the paint

Photos of the current condition get you the fastest, most accurate quote.