[nynor]

the snow/water is beading up nicely on the 951.

rick, i hear ya about swirls. i figured two things about this job: the paint is white, thus less likely to show swirls, AND to do the job right, by hand, would have taken hours, possibly days, because the paint was so bad. i managed to get rid of the mtn bike tire tracks on the driver's door, and a lot of other blemishes, in a matter of about three hours (and that includes travel time to get the polisher).

also, it seems that not having the car clean enough adds to the swirls, along with having a polisher that just spins in circles. so, i washed the car twice (with this really nice 'mothers' brand carnauba wax soap and love the way it smells) and used a random orbit polisher. i didn't see any obvious swirls. however, the light quality on that white paint required a welding helmet to cut the glare.