When/why did buffing a car become "paint correction"?

[letitsnow]

I laugh every time I read or hear paint correction. That is stupid. Is it a cuter name? More cooler?? Again, I laugh. I laughed today while buffing some scratches out of my neighbors car. I told him that if he calls it a paint correction, I was gonna burn through on every body line - then there will be a problem with the paint that actually needs correcting...

 

[88monteSS]

When places figured out they could charge more for it if they gave it a technical sounding name.

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[Hipster]

I laugh every time I read or hear paint correction. That is stupid. Is it a cuter name? More cooler?? Again, I laugh. I laughed today while buffing some scratches out of my neighbors car. I told him that if he calls it a paint correction, I was gonna burn through on every body line - then there will be a problem with the paint that actually needs correcting...

LMAO!

It's just an attempt to charge rediculous $$ to polish up a car. What's hilarious most of these guys that push that terminology and the rediculously priced products don't know what color sanding and buffing even is.

I do paint and bodywork and no one in the biz even calls knocking out a few dust nibs out of a fresh paint job "paint correction"

 

[long_bed]

Marketers never run out of ways to up-sell.

 

[deadbeat]

When you painted lacquer, you had to buff every car because it was dull after being sprayed. I guess most just realized you could get a higher shine, remove runs, and get rid of all the orange peel. But, I have been around bodywork my whole life, never heard it called paint correction. lmao

 

[ahirlo]

Just finished my paint correction lol

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[ahirlo]

Just finished my paint correction

 

[Supercharged111]

I laugh every time I read or hear paint correction. That is stupid. Is it a cuter name? More cooler?? Again, I laugh. I laughed today while buffing some scratches out of my neighbors car. I told him that if he calls it a paint correction, I was gonna burn through on every body line - then there will be a problem with the paint that actually needs correcting...

I had not heard this until now. I really want to punch the first person I hear call it that who means it.

 

[BuildStuff]

Get yourself a nice lab coat, fancy rubber gloves, an industrial looking form of eye protection, I might suggest the full face shield for effect, maybe even have led lights on there, RGB at that, then call it Paint Correction, making you a Correctoriologist, and now you can charge Lawyer type fees. Whatever you do, do not do anything by hand, always use some type of electrically powered device, the bigger the better. Come to think of it, don't just slobber out the compound from a squirt type bottle, get a measuring device of some sort, maybe even a giant syringe....ok, I'm going overboard a little.

 

[Supercharged111]

Get yourself a nice lab coat, fancy rubber gloves, an industrial looking form of eye protection, I might suggest the full face shield for effect, maybe even have led lights on there, RGB at that, then call it Paint Correction, making you a Correctoriologist, and now you can charge Lawyer type fees. Whatever you do, do not do anything by hand, always use some type of electrically powered device, the bigger the better. Come to think of it, don't just slobber out the compound from a squirt type bottle, get a measuring device of some sort, maybe even a giant syringe....ok, I'm going overboard a little.

No more so than referring to buffing as paint correction.