After a paint cleaner I should use a glaze/polish?

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After I use s100 cleaner I feel like I should somehow fill the tiny scratches and imperfections of the paint surface. This is what glaze or polish is for right? If the surface is really bad I could use a very high grit liquid sanding (3M stuff). But otherwise I should use something that fills in the scratches right? This will enhance the gloss of the paint surface? This something is known as a polish? Or is it glaze? Then I put the s100 wax on which makes the reflections seem "deeper". Right?



What is a recommended product to do this for an arctic white car?
 
I had a small fender bender where just one quarter panel was repainted. There is a small area where its not very reflective and the surface looks similiar to the surface of an orange. Other areas of the car the paint looks like it has alot of potential, like it has reflection but at the right angle the light diffuses off the clear coat surface which has all these scuffy light scratches. Wax helps hide it but not completely. Like it will look good in the shade where you can see the trees above in the reflection. But then you go to a gas station at night and it looks dull from the overhead lights.



For a white car, whats the best polish and then glaze?



Also the only reason I know about that 3M sanding stuff is because: when I picked up my car from having the panel being fixed+repainted, I noticed an area *completely* dull, it looked like sandpaper had been used on it, it was really bad. He was like oh, sorry I didnt see that, and used this 3M stuff in a squeeze bottle, it said 10000 grit or something. Anyway that area he did with it, is now the most perfect spot on my car to this day. I want that stuff, where do I get it?
 
For lack of any specific answer anyone can give for this mystery product, click on the PC thread in my sig and look for the link in that page that goes to 3M's automotive stuff. I think there's a separate "detailing" line as well, but few people know anything about it and it may not be located there.



The part that looks like an orange really IS called "orange peel". Do a search for that for your possible courses of action (or lack of).



Good luck.
 
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