re: If you don't know how to buff a vehicle, you should learn.

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First, different cars have different amounts of paint. Second, doing things things wrong or using the wrong product can actually put defects into the paint. New paint is easier to compound, but it can be less forgiving. (not as much paint to work with)

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How is there not more paint to work with? It has the thickest amount of clear coat it will get unless you bring it to a shop to be painted more.

I agree that if you have a hacked up older car then letting a beginner polish it won't make it worse. But new cars are easier to get 90-95% correction when using the right pad and polish combination.

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Turning a beginner loose on a new car is a mistake.

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It still depends on the hardness of the clear coat. If it's the GM diamond tri coat metallic, it would take a lot to mess that up since it has one of the hardest clear coats I've ever worked with. It looked almost as clear as a 2 step polish after the compounding step.

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My point about the clear coat was, that if you see the actual color of the car (red, blue) etc, you have cut down into the color coat.

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I certainly agree. That would be scary to be doing a red car and see red on the pad. Big no-no.

Nice to see there are others that care about their paint being defect-free.

For God's sake, if anyone here cares about his or her car staying clean, do NOT drive through Benny's or any other touch car wash. Those big rollers absolutely hammer your paint and swirl them like crazy. There is nothing worse you could do for your paint short of keying the thing.