Mobile · Houston, TX · Est. 2013
We come to you. Paint correction first — then coating, film, and the original single-stage paint most shops will not touch. Your driveway, our lights.
The difference
Correction is hard to photograph and easy to fake, so we shoot every car under the same lights before and after. Keep scrolling.
Two-stage paint correction
Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Swirl removal and gloss restoration on factory black.
Single-stage correction
Ferrari 458 Italia
Wash-induced marring lifted from the front fender.
Correction + ceramic coating
Mercedes-Benz CLS
Rocker panel refinished, then sealed.
Ferrari 458
Paint correction
Ferrari F430 Scuderia
Correction + coating
Ferrari 430 Scuderia
Gloss restoration
We come to you
Paint correction has always been a fixed-shop service because it needs controlled light, clean water and hours of uninterrupted time. We built the van so it does not need your house for any of that.
The car never leaves you, nobody joyrides it to a unit across town, and you can watch the whole thing from your kitchen window if you want to.
Time on site
Where we go
Roughly 40 miles around Houston. Outside that, ask — for the right car we will usually make the drive.
What we do
Correction is the core of the service; everything else exists to protect it or maintain it. We will talk you out of a coating on paint that is not ready for one.
01The core of the service.
Multi-stage machine polishing that removes swirls, etching and sanding marks instead of filling them. We read paint depth panel by panel before a pad ever touches the car, then pick the least aggressive combination that actually finishes the defect.
02Locks the correction in.
A semi-permanent layer over corrected paint. Keeps the finish from dulling under Houston sun and rain, and makes wash days short enough that you stop re-installing the swirls you just paid to remove.
03For the panels that take hits.
Self-healing urethane where the road actually reaches: nose, mirrors, rockers, A-pillars. Computer-cut for the exact model, or bulk-installed with wrapped edges where the pattern falls short of the panel.
04Single-stage, lacquer, enamel.
Pre-clearcoat paint behaves nothing like modern basecoat, and it does not grow back. Original single-stage, acrylic lacquer and enamel get read, tested and worked conservatively — often by hand — to bring back depth without spending film you cannot replace.
05Heat and glare, down.
Ceramic film that cuts cabin heat and glare without going purple in two summers. Legal-limit or track-only, cut and heat-shrunk on site.
06The maintenance side.
Leather, Alcantara, carpet and trim brought back without silicone shine — plus the wash routine that does not undo the correction you paid for.
Classic & original paint
Single-stage paint has no clear layer to hide behind. What you polish is the colour itself, and on a car from the sixties there may be less than 3 mils of it left over primer that will never be original again once it is gone.
So we start with a gauge and a test spot, not a compound. Acrylic lacquer, nitrocellulose and enamel each break down differently, and oxidation, die-back and checking all want different answers — sometimes a machine, often a hand pad, occasionally the answer that the paint should be left alone.
Depth readings across every panel, logged. On original paint the number decides the process, not the other way round.
The goal is depth and colour back, with the car still wearing the paint it left the factory in. Patina that is worth keeping, we keep.
Thin edges, hand-painted coachlines, delicate trim and repaired sections get finished by hand rather than risked under a rotary.
Coatings and film are options, not defaults. On a concours or a documented survivor we will talk through what changes the car and what does not.
Got something original and are not sure whether it should be polished at all? That is the right question, and the one we would rather answer before you book anything.
Ask about your carSelected work
We bring the light bar to you.
How it goes
Most of what separates a good correction from a bad one happens before the polisher comes out.
The van carries its own power, water and lighting, so nothing is asked of your house. Twenty minutes to set up in your driveway or garage and we are working.
Before anything touches the car we roll the lights in and read it with you standing there: paint depth panel by panel, every defect logged. You see what we found before we quote the work.
Chemical and mechanical decon strips the bonded contaminants a wash leaves behind — the step most shops skip and every correction depends on.
Test spot first, then a pad and compound chosen for that specific clearcoat. Refined until the light bar shows nothing but the light bar.
Coating or film goes on corrected paint only, and wants a garage or covered space to flash. Final inspection under the same lights, then the driveway looks like we were never there.
Who we are
Spectrum Auto Salon is a mobile paint-correction service based in Houston. No unit to drop the car at and no queue to wait in — the lights, the water and the power arrive on your driveway and leave with us.
Everything on this site is a car we worked on: Ferraris and Skylines, a 356 and a G-Wagon, plenty of daily drivers in between. Modern clearcoat and sixties single-stage get the same first step — read the paint, then decide — which is why we are comfortable with both.
Next step
Send a few photos and we will come back with a real number and a realistic timeline — not a range with a question mark.
