Paint Corrections

"Paint Correction" is the techincal term for the process of cutting and polishing the clear coat of your vehicle's paint to remove imperfections. Examples of such imperfections include water spots, scratches, swirl marks, etching from bird poop or bug guts, and sanding marks. Despite what you might think, even a brand new car from the dealership that's never been washed will still need a paint correction. Without going too in depth, when a vehicle is painted at the factory it then gets wet sanded to remove "trash" (dust, dirt, paint runs), and then polished with a rotary polisher. Depending on the operator that day, the wet sanding scratches might only be halfway buffed out, or buffed too quickly and leave holograms behind. To add on top of that, with the current microchip shortage vehicles are spending more times in outdoor lots at factories and shipping yards, where birds can poop on them, and weeks or dust mix with rain and leave nasty water spots behind on vehicles. Over time every car will suffer some damage like swirl marks from running through automatic car wash tunnels, scratches from every day life, and water etching from us living in a coastal area with salt water in the air. 

Our job at Black Diamond is to smooth the clear coat out to remove these flaws and give your paint its best shine. We use a combination of rotary and dual action polishers with a wide assortment of pads, compounds, and finishing polishes to determine the safest method for correcting your paint and leave the most amount of clear coat behind. This is also a service we can provide for boats and yachts, for both paint and gel coat.

Ceramic Coatings

We are certified installers for CeramicPro, the industry leader in nanoceramic coatings. Before a ceramic coating can be applied to a vehicle there are necessary steps that must be taken to promote the best physical and chemical bond is made between the coating and your vehicle's clear coat. These steps include a fallout remover to dissolve brake dust, iron deposits, surface rust, and road grime on your paint, some of it so microscopic that you can't see or even feel it, but is enough of an inhibitor to stop a coating from bonding. The paint will also get a clay bar treatment to remove other physical contaminants, plus at minimum a 2-step paint correction (compound then polish) to level the clear coat for maximum adherence. To get to this point before the coating is even taken out of the package can take at least 10 hours. The ceramic coating then gets applied to the paint under special lighting at our shop where we keep a sharp eye on the surfaces as it cures. Our shop is climate controlled to ensure consistant flash and curing times for our ceramic coating projects by maintaing the same temperature and humidity across all jobs when coatings are applied. The purpose of a ceramic coating is to add an extra layer of protection on top of your paint similar to a body armor. Ceramic coatings have a higher hardness rating than factory clear coats which increases resistance to rock chips, scratches, and scuffs. Other benefits include a very slick feel to the touch, high water repellancy keeping your car cleaner for longer between washes, easier cleaning, and superior UV protection preventing paint from fading in our Florida sun. With proper care our coating will give either 5 years of protection, or lifetime protection for your vehicles paint. This is also a service we can offer for boats and yachts.

Window Tinting

We are certified installers for Kavaca tint films, a division of CeramicPro. All of our films are backed by a lifetime factory warranty. Our expert staff can go over the options with you to find the tint percentage and type that works best for your needs. For the majority of trucks, suv's, and crossovers, they will be manufactured with privacy glass for all windows behind the driver row. Privacy glass has the "tint" impregnated within the glass and typically reads around 20%. Getting your front windows tinted to match the rears is an economical choice to dramatically decrease the heat radiating into your vehicle from the sun.