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Well, sort of! I use DA's a lot with my work as i've been doing wood related stuff for over 20 yrs, but i've never had a go at polishing/paint correction with one. Had my R for about 2 months, 15 plate, Oryx White, 1 previous owner who's looked after it, but i could see the ol' swirl marks every time the sun hits it. Being white it's not half as bad as my previous MK5 R32 which was Pearl Black, but still i've been wanting to have a go at them swirls, and hopefully bring the Oryx back to life a bit. I think it just looked a bit dull, and a lot of the time it just looks like Pure White. Luckily for me, i have a good mate who was big into his detailing a couple of years ago, and has a DAS 6 Pro sitting in his garage that he said i could borrow. I was thinking of getting the Meguiars Microfibre paint correction kit for it, but he also had the Auto Finesse 3 stage kit sitting there that he kindly leant me, and even chucked me some AF Illusion wax to use - result! 😛 After some great advice off Bec @Booth11 on here, and reading through a few threads, i got some stuff together to do the full decontamination, polish, and seal up for the winter. I had most of the weekend free to do it, from about 1 o'clock on Saturday and then all day Sunday. Dirty(ish) R First up was a Snow Foam, PH Neutral DoDo Juice 'Apple iFoam' 😂 Obligatory SF shot 😍 I have to say, that stuff is more clingy than my first girlfriend, i used it neat out of my Karcher lance and tweaked the the mixer on the nozzle. Smells good too! Whilst that was doing it's thing i dragged this out of the many bottles of stuff i've got laying around in the garage. 2 or so years ago i thought this was a full decontamination ... A rinse off and a wash with that, one bucket 😱 I don't have 2 yet, that'll be something i'll get later to try and keep the swirls away. Lambs wool mitt though, Microfibre for the wheels ... full rinse again, dried it off (Meguiars water magnet). Then onto this, CarPro Iron X That stuff is one of the most disgusting smelling things i've ever come across, absolutely vile, it says 'Cherry Scent' but don't be fooled by that, i've smelt better butt-holes than that haha! Started on the wheels. spray on, leave it for a bout 4-5 mins whilst it does its thing and bleeds purple, rub it with a microfibre mitt, thoroughly rinse it off. Then onto the paint, one panel at a time. Karcher rinse and dry the whole car again. I can still smell it 2 days later! Then onto CarPro Tar X, same process as above, time consuming! I found this stuff to be a bit more stubborn, also better not to leave it for quite as long, it bleeds like a rusty orange colour. Rinse off, then another full wash with the shampoo, then dry off, i pulled this out, AF Aqua Deluxe, damn these things are thick and heavy, top quality, better than my bathroom towels actually! Also the car is much cleaner than me by this stage too 😮 After all that i'd pretty much had it for the day, starting to get dark, i'd been thorough in every stage so the time just disappeared tbh. Fun though, and the car was looking damn clean and clear. I got up and outside on Sunday by about 7:30, car covered in dew, next process was the clay bar ... Meguiars again, the kit with their Quick Detailer spray to lube her up a bit. That knee pad came in damn handy by the way, i'd recommend one if you're thinking of giving this a go. I was quite surprised at the amount of crap that it picked up actually, especially after all the obsessive cleaning the day before! Also good to feel the paint nice and smooth after this stage, again, took a while but worth it. Sun started to come out just after that, gave it an open-ended hose-off as recommended by Bec, got soaked, jeans/trainers saturated, car now cleaner and drier than the mug with the hose pipe.. Had a look at the paint in the sun .... Some scratches on the rear quarter, looked like a drag against a hedge or something. The Galaxy 'Oryx' 😍 .. With light swirl marks highlighted by the Sun, quite hard to photograph the swirls, really need one of them torches but they cost a bomb don't they! If anyone has any recommendations i'd be interested. All depends what light it's in as to what state it looks i've found, it looks hideous some days, especially the black door pillars, ugh! Anyway .. Pearl looks mental close up like this. So here went nothing ... Auto Finesse 'Revitalise" kit has 3 stages, they say to try stage 2 to begin with, if it's not removing the swirl, then to go back to stage 1, which is basically what i did, tried 2, no good, went back to 1. The polishes are colour coded with the foam pads so it's quite simple to use. That DAS 6 Pro was a rattly old beast to use at first! Also very awkward to find the speed dial while you're on the go as it's right on the end of the handle, and it's shaking around so you can't really read it either! Alright once you're used to it though, couple of passes and i was away. I found it worked best to start on speed 1 and move it around quickly to spread the polish out, then onto about speed 3.5 to 4 and move it slowly, one hand over the top of the pad, one at the end of the handle to balance it. I found, if you up the speed much more than this, it becomes a bit of a handful, it wants to 'walk' (travel under rotation of itself) and grab .. if you then put more weight on it to stop it from walking and grabbing, all you'll do is slow it down by putting the motor under strain, so there's no point, find the sweet spot where it rotates and oscillates nicely with just a little pressure on it and you're laughin' ... About this much polish seemed to work for me on the larger panels. Any less i found i just didn't cover enough of an area on the larger panels. Keeping the pressure light and spreading it out quickly from the start seems to be the trick, then keep working it in. I did several passes on some panels with the Stage 1 and 2 polishes and pads, i'm not sure if the polish is getting old either as it was really runny, had to shake the bottle upside down every time i dotted the pad or it'd just come out like coloured water... This is the Stage 3 red pad and polish ... Another thing, damn it kicked off some dust! More so Stage 1 and 2, Is that the polish drying out? I cleaned the pads before and during use a bit, they weren't brand new pads either, but hadn't had much use. The Red Stage 3 was brand new and felt smoother to use. As for getting the swirls out, i'd say i was about 85% successful? It was a huge improvement but if i'm fussy and got in the right light i could still see a few. Maybe the clear coat is hard on Oryx? I think the final red pad stage helped mask the swirls a bit too, being finer, maybe it works a bit like filler glaze? I think i was at it for over 5 hours 😨 This was near the end of the final stage, i was on the floor, pretty much dead, but damn look at that Oryx White coming to life! It's hard graft on your shoulders/neck/back being on your knees or bent over working the polish in! I gave it a quick jet wash afterwards and watched the water fall off it, quick dry and tidy up, looking good! Smooth as butter! Dried the wheels and put some Meguiars Endurance tyre gel on with my new Meguiars tyre gel applicator, can't believe how much better they are to use than a microfibre cloth that i used before. Then onto this stuff, with the Auto Finesse black/white applicator on the fine black side, just cloud it on, leave it to haze then buff it off, easy to use, great stuff. One coat on the whole car, another on the bonnet and front end/wings. Just about found the energy for a coat of wax too, again, really easy to apply with an AF Waxmate .. Sun had dipped by now! Scratches on the rear quarter = gone Done. for now! I didn't get time to seal my wheels, that'll have to wait, the Cadiz will be my winters as i'm getting a set of Prets together. Also to do, those black door pillars, the swirl in them is horrible, i think i'lll need a smaller pad to hit them with or i'll catch the window rubbers, anyone have any advice on that? Also the window seals and black bits need going over, i got some AF Revive for that, i'd just ran out of time. Over all i'm pretty happy with the result though, paint is as smooth as glass and everyone is saying it's changed colour, definitely worth it for that, the pearl has really come to life now, it's just (being fussy) there are light swirls in it that i just couldn't seem to budge, i'm not sure if that's down to old polish and pads, or they're just not abrasive enough. I'll try the Meguiars Microfibre paint correction kit next rime, maybe in the spring