Vanilla Moose. :love: I remember when it smelled like vanilla, but that's another story...Funny you should say that cause when I got it, the first thing I did was smell it. I was like "damn, that don't smell like vanilla" h:

You may not need fine cut with a rotary. You may find that using a less agressive polish with it is more than adequate. I dunno, but shit, I paid $10 for the fine cut so im using it,hehehe. I'll do a small section with fine cut and a small section with VM and see the results and go from there. I really can't say not having seen the car, but note that fine cut is meant to be used by rotary, so the results will be quite different by rotary.Quite different as in better, right? My advice is to do one panel, or half a panel, go get yourself a drink, come back, and look at it. This is just to get a different perspective right? Good idea. Cause I'll tell ya, I washed my car today and it looked good. I came back outside to leave and dayum, the swirls were so heavy it looked like they were in 3D. Maybe pull it out of the garage, and look at it from all angles to see that you're doing what you want to before you do the entire car. If you have flourescent lighting in the garage, get something with a light bulb that will focus it more. Flourscent lighting doesn't show much of swirl marks, it's very hard to detail under unless you have a light you can use to check your work every so often.

I keep a flashlight with me when I detail. Yeah, I have issues...ahahaha, we have regular lighting in the garage, no flourescent.

You can tilt it a little. And by very little I mean VERY LITTLE. Not half of the pad in the air.So how do you keep the pad flat when the panels are concave? This worries me. That speed range is good. Keep it at 1000. You'll notice the speeds aren't marked in RPMs (yeah, I know, intelligent of them...), so you have to do a little math to figure out what increments the speed is. I forget, and really I didn't pay attention to that, I just knew what speeds I was comfortable with after using a DeWalt last summer. You can increase your speed a little as you get more comfortable, but I would always start out at 1000 and then work my way up, not start out at 1500 all the way. It's just that much safer that way. OK

I assume you know not to mix products on pads.Yeah, that's pretty common sense stuff. Wash the pads after you are done though.OK. How many uses do you normally get out of a foam pad? I let a pad go for a few weeks and the polish degraded the foam a little. It didn't look like it had, I just noticed the "cutting" of the pad wasn't doing a whole lot.

You may want to use a polishing or finishing pad with VM. You may want to use a polishing pad and not a cutting pad with the fine cut.I'm thinking a polishing pad for both, sound good? It would be a good idea to get an intermediate polish eventually so that when you want to do this again, you can see if you can get good results without going very agressive (more than likely).What would you recommend? Fine cut should become the last resort product after you are done with this. With proper washing and everything it should never get that bad again. It won't get this bad again,not while I have it. I was able to keep my Accord swirl free for a year after getting a new paint job, and it was a dark color too so I think I did alright.

I use #83 DACP on my paint (or equivalent in agressiveness) once a year now. My paint never gets bad enough as to where I need it more than that. I polish it out with a lighter polish since it does start to lose its "look" but otherwise, I don't go any more agressive than I need to more often than I need to.