Well I spent close to 20 hours with meguiars #2 and #9 and 2500 wet paper in my garage even had halogen light on stand to show imperfections. Iam 54 and first time ever doing this lots of water when sanding, careful not to apply presure to buffer was impressed with my results :yes: Well my son in law comes over look at all those scratches, swirl marks this thing is a mess :mad: He took the buffer cleaned the pad put #9 on and did 1/2 of the trunk well what a difference he detailed for Benz dealership for 5 years. I feel embarrassed really thought I had done a good job my daughter tells me 200000.00 show room cars were the norm for him. There comeing over today to fix my chevelle. I guess Iam just a dumb bricklayer thats lucky.

Your first time and you didn't burn thru the paint in a bunch of places?
I'd say you did pretty good!
Your SIL coulda been more tactful.

That's how you learn, even at our age. Watch him carefully and learn from what he does. Polishing and waxing seems simple but in reality it is not.

Dont feel bad Im 53 and did close to the same thing last year. A lot of people make mistakes like that. The guys on here set me straight on how to remove my mistakes.:thumbsup:

I'm 56 and doing my first set of quarter panels. Never too old to learn plus I'm having fun. I live in a retirement community and am the talk of the hood. Gives these old people something to talk about. Even have an old body man wanting to help. Free experienced help!!! Oh Yea!!!

Well last night he came over 6 till midnight different grade buffing wheels actually finer than I had also compounds and wax. Looks like I had it started just had not gone fine enough. Looks great now

Cutting a car is an art. Did it for many years, you know back in the days of Ebony swirl remover.:cool: