Cut and Buff - New Paint looks bad!!!

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Because misery loves company, here are some "play by play" shots - It took ten cuts (meaning ten passes with megs 105) to go from beginning to end. My goal is to do one panel per day (the passenger door probably took 3 hours to tape, wet sand and buff out).

First shot showing contrast of first pass of compound (top) vs. bare wet sand (bottom)
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Second Pass:

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Third Pass:

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Fourth Pass:

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Sixth Pass:

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Tenth Pass (still some swirl marks but no one will look at this angle anyway):

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Before (zoom in to see the dimples):

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After:

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Looks great. 10 passes with a DA is painfully slow. Better safe than sorry. I've had pretty good results using megs100 as a faster cut and polish.
 
Love it! Only problem now is that it looks too good to take out of the garage, you might scratch it haha.
 

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