It's cleaning time.
here is what i have to work with.





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Well I'm done.. and she passes the five foot rule. Now my nephew does take care of her but he doesn't have a garage.. so she sits under a car cover..
For polish is used


those are pad dependant to I used

the black heavy cutting and the blue polishing
from Edge 2000
I then went and finished polished to get any maring out with
with a blue polishing foam pad,
and I got lazy and used

This works great but I still feel like I cheated
I did a wipe down with

which just helped gloss it up and make sure I don't miss any spots
OK here is the finish product




thank you all.
Black is a pain in the *** as I learned this year when the wife got a black Saab, but it can also be very rewarding when finished.
I did the Menzerna three step process with her car (Intense polish, final polish, FMJ) and was quite happy with the results. I used a PC do do the work since it was a new car the swirls weren't bad.
Here's a pic...

If you can't tell, it's her passenger side door and that's my car in the reflection. Pretty neat pic if I say so myself.
I've heard the cut on the Optimum Compound isn't that much stronger than the polish, so it's best suited to orbital use, which works really well with it. That's why Optimum released the Hyper Compound, which is better suited for a rotary.
Nothing wrong with the spray wax, either. I don't use it, but if I needed to save a lot of time I'd pick some up.
I found the best is the polish.. neither the compound or the hyper compound works as i expected..










