My recommendation is for you to spread product evenly over surface before working it, and / or condition your pad like suggested before using it.
Get a new/clean pad, spin it on machine for 2 - 3 seconds while brushing it (or until you are sure it's clean).
Spray the face of the pad with 1 or 2 fine mists of QD or pad conditioning spray, rotate it on machine for 2-3 seconds using a MF towel on face of pad to spread QD evenly while drying the excess.
After that, press the pad with palm of your hand using the MF towel for 2 - 3 times, compressing and releasing.
This time, your pad may feel softer than when you first grab it. No?
Select a product, although M105 may (or may not) need water mist, but you are relating the same problem with M205, I'd select it for you to follow.
SHAKE the bottle.
Add 4 dime size drops (one on each quarter) to the edges of the pad (not on border, on pad's face, closer to the edges).
Select a surface to work NOT larger than 16x24 (size of a MF rectangular towel).
With machine still OFF, Dab the polisher in 5-6 parts of your work area, (my first dab is in the middle of work section), trying to deposit even quantity of product over the area you'll work. (don't go crazy here, 4-6 dabs).
Position the polisher on the start of your work area. With speed set on 1-3, do ONE somewhat fast section pass, from start to end of section overlapping each pass 50%, without ANY pressure. Turn machine off.
This time, you may have spread a film of product which you'll work over.
Set polisher speed to 5, position the polisher on start of work area, add medium pressure to it's head and turn it on.
Start doing your passes moving the polisher slowly, and go side-to-side, back overlapping 50% of last pass, then up down the same way.
Each time you go side-to-side covering whole work area once, is 1 section pass. When you go up/down the whole area again, that's another section pass. Do between 3-5 passes while working this product.
Depending on situation, you may adapt the pass:
- More / Less pressure
- More / Less arm Speed
- More / Less product quantity
- More / Less size of work area
In some cases, you may do the first 3 passes using firm pressure to engage (firm is not heavy), and let the weight of the polisher work for the last few 2 passes. It's not something you may do always, but depending on situation, you may try to adjust the variables in an effort to 'fine tune' your polishing.
Is the above the best way, right way, or only way to do it? Absolutely NO. There are many ways to do it.
If you try to figure, it's harder to right about it than actually doing it. You see..
I just described one simple follow up that may allow you to polish one section and try to, ultimately, find if your product may be compromised.
However, I found important to define a 'standard' polishing procedure to my use and then fine tune from there. If I can use this without any issue, I'm pretty sure you may be able to reproduce it.
This will not guarantee you'll remove swirls and scratches, only that you may be able to do 3-5 section passes without facing the issues you're relating.
If something won't happen as expected, it's easy to play with variables to adjust (sometimes on the fly) from standard start.
Idea above is to give you weapons to add to your own arsenal, and try to move from there. Develop your way of doing, which will be the best way, for you.
Kind Regards.
