Trouble getting newly painted hood to stay swirl free

[Jeopardy]

Hood was recently painted, about 2 months ago now, so I figured the clear has enough time to set.

Hood prep:

-Wash Meguiars NXT Tech Wash w/Cobra MF mitt
-Dry with Cobra Waffle Weave MF towel

All with PC:
-M105 LC Orange
-M80 LC Orange (Also tried Opti-Polish 2 on LC Orange because M80 was giving me a little trouble)

-Wipe with purple Cobra MF

I still have a small amount of swirls, very thin ones. The paint is much better than before, but I can still see alot in the sunlight.

2 Questions:
-I only did 1 pass with M105 because most of the heavy swirls were pretty much gone. Do I need to compound again?
-After M80 or Opti-Polish I still saw swirls, so, obviously there is an issue in my 2nd step here, but I really don't know what.

[CieraSL]

Re: Trouble getting newly painted hood to stay swirl free

Try a couple passes with M205 and see if that clears it up.

[Murr1525]

Re: Trouble getting newly painted hood to stay swirl free

When you say "staying swirl free", are you having trouble removing swirls, or finding that you are putting new ones in?

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Trouble getting newly painted hood to stay swirl free

Switch to a soft foam finishing pad and get some M205 Ultra Finishing Polish.

[Jeopardy]

Re: Trouble getting newly painted hood to stay swirl free

When you say "staying swirl free", are you having trouble removing swirls, or finding that you are putting new ones in?

Removing swirls.

The M105 gets most of them, but it seem like the ones left don't leave.

Switch to a soft foam finishing pad and get some M205 Ultra Finishing Polish.

I just ordered a bunch of stuff from Autogeek, but M205 wasn't one of them. I thought about it though.

I'm going to call the English Color down the street from my house and see if they have any.