[Perfectlap]

well just for others to note I do not recommend the use of any waxes particularly paste waxes without first claying your car. If you drive your car outdoors at all there will be sediments on your paint surface kicked up from vehicles in front and from oncoming traffic. always smart and time saving to clay while you wash your car and then do a second wash to rinse away the sediments. Those critters are microscopic.

As far as PC buffers its not so damaging certainly not permanent. The orbital action of the polisher means there is little danger in damaging the clear coat, just takes allot longer to round out the swirls. A rotary buffer on the other hand is much faster but can incur big time damage in the wrong hands. The thing to remember is that if you have moderate to heavy swirling you will need to start off with as mild(least abbrasive)formula as possible so that you aren't neelesly cutting away too much clear coat and then graduate to a more abbrasive formula if the job wasn't done in the first go. Stepping up the abrasiveness WILL require that you finish off with as a mild a formula available to remove any swirls that you may have induced in stepping up the abrrasives. Its either a 1 step or 3 step process no in between.