Determing the amount of paint correction?

[LelandGray]

I've seen a few posts were they talk about going for a certain percentage paint correction.. like, 85% correction or 90%, etc..

What does this mean, and how do you come up with this sort of figure?

[Murr1525]

Re: Determing the amount of paint correction?

It just means compared to something like a perfect show car, how worried you are about leaving a few swirls behind.

Like on a daily driver, one might not worry about some light swirls, but remove the major swirls/scratches.

[yalerd]

Re: Determing the amount of paint correction?

Those are estimates. People just say it so readers can get maybe an "idea".
95% or something like it, means you are pretty close to perfection, removed almost all kind of defects leaving some isolated traces and the numbers go