right..if your going to do it yourself..make sure you have a very good bright light to inspect your paint work as you work on it..because i was gutted! Basically i washed,dried the car..then i clay barred the whole car twice..i then taped up the edges..used a DA polisher with some cutting compound to remove swirls..gave all the panels about 2 passes ..then i wiped down and used a finishing pad with poorboys glaze.The car looked amazing..as i thought i removed all the swirls..but i didnt..i was using the wrong pad for cutting..so it didnt remove much swirls..and then when i used the poor boys all it did was fill them in and hide them.. any way this took me nearly 20 hours ..car looked amazing..heres some pics...





any way..after taking it out a few times in the sun and after a few washes//..i realised the swirls were still there.. was gutted! so took the car to a pro detailer..he put a proper light to it..and seen this!!!!!!!!



He then explained what i did wrong ....after just 5 mins with the right pad and compound it looked like this..



heres a before and after


so now i am going to start all over again and this time remove all the swirls on the car... polish..wax and then seal it..will take me atleast 30 hours ..its hard getting a dark colour swirl free..but i will do it no matter what now as it pisses me off seeing them.. thanks..mo