recently just started my diy detailing and found it is very interesting. bought black and decker kp600 polisher, because it is more gentle for a beginner like me? cause i read a lot review saying rotary polisher might damage car paint so i dont want to take the risk.

so my materials are Permanon Platinum pro pack, with brilliantshine shampoo and fusion x3, meguairs quik detailer, meguairs ultimate polish. my process goes like this (wash-clay-wash-polish-platinum coat first layer-fusion x3-platinum coat another layer.

i took 7 hours non-stop for an accord without realizing the time pass so fast.

but actually what i wanted to achieve is the mirror shine effect, and i am not achieving. is this because of the polishing part? i not dare to go too much for polishing yet because scare it will cause more scratchess.

i tried put the pictures in pc to compare but really not much different. maybe because the car paint still quite new? or the polishing not deep enough to create mirror shine? read a lot about orange peel leveling but seems too risky trying it.

thanks for the advice, but compounding is different with polishing right? should i do compounding first before polishing?