DA and rotary polishers, pads, plates, and inspection lights for paint correction.
Machine correction is where paint is permanently removed, so it comes after the car is washed, decontaminated and inspected — never before. Clear coat is finite and cannot be put back.
An entry-level machine with variable speed and a detachable handle, sold as a kit so you are not buying pads and backing plates separately on day one.
Before you buy, check the listing says dual-action (DA). A DA orbits as well as spins, which is what makes it forgiving enough to learn on. A rotary at these speeds removes clear coat fast and will burn through an edge in seconds in untrained hands — that is a respray, not a polish.
Whichever you end up with: do a test spot first, keep the machine moving, and stay off body lines and edges.
Machine correction is where paint is permanently removed, so it comes after the car is washed, decontaminated and inspected — never before. Clear coat is finite and cannot be put back.
A cheaper alternative to the machine above, with a lower top speed — which for a beginner is closer to a feature than a limitation, since almost nothing in paint correction needs 4500.
Same caution applies: confirm the listing says dual-action, and learn on a scrap panel or an old car before you take a machine to a customer’s paint.
We add these as we test them, so the list stays gear we would actually use rather than whatever pays best.
The best kit in the world does not help if the customer booked elsewhere while you were using it. We set up missed-call text-back for your shop, so anyone you cannot answer gets a text within seconds instead of a voicemail they will never leave.
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