Brian, your car is looking very smart and shiny. You pictures shamed me at the weekend into some remedial effort - been driving the car a lot when there isn't any salt on the road -spent the winter dealing with mechanical and electrical oddities, getting used to driving it, any excuse to get out and about really. But my oily hand prints, and a lifetime of scratches and blemishes plus rather dull brown paint wasn't doing its looks any favours. Then I saw your pictures here. Overcome with guilt and envy, and having been a good boy and got on top of the garden over last few weeks, I washed and dried the car, then went all over and marked up all the scratches - there were a lot accumulated it seems. Indeed, there wasn't a panel that wasn't! Used a cutting compound to remove/decrease them. Then did it all again, as inevitably found more and more the closer I looked. After 4 hours of this torture I stopped for lunch - by now the sun had come out, and revealed just as many more that I had missed. So back at it until I could take no more of this. Then waxed all the paintwork and cleaned all the chrome. Took a whole day, was knackered afterwards, (there's a lot of surface are on a P6, as I now know)) but what a difference! Far from perfect of course, but major improvement, the downside is that by the end of the week it will be as filthy as ever - but not scratched so badly. I'm always amazed at what a few cloths and a bit of effort can achieve - but I'm still a long way off your level of detail and shine!