Yeah thanks to this site... and I read many of your posts to learn too Scott hehe
I started out with an orange light cutting pad and the Optimum Polish. That didn't seem to make a dent. So I stepped up to the Optimum Compound with the orange pad and I got a lot of the swirls out but still not everything.
I hit it again with the orange pad and compound and it didn't seem to make any difference. So I stepped up to a yellow pad and the compound and that took care of it.
I still had to make a few passes even with the yellow pad and compound to get some of the really bad areas but I couldn't beleive how the Optimum Compound was finishing down.
I went over a section with a white polishing pad and some
Menzerna FPII and honestly couldn't tell the difference in gloss. I was wondering if maybe it was just me but my buddy couldn't tell a difference either. I decided to go ahead and do the whole section (the door) with the FPII and white pad and just see if it made a noticable difference anyway.
I couldn't tell a difference but I went ahead and did the rest with the white pad and FPII just to be on the safe side.
Then of course I read on the Optimum Compound bottle that you didn't need to use a finishing polish... nice