It’ll keep scratching man. My car was paint corrected and ceramic coated and still the decklid developed swirls, it’s just so soft. Same with my ford gt350 spoiler. Rest of car has zero swirls.
I use the Meguiars product and a Porter Cable buffer, always works great. Use a micro fiber towel to remove the residue, apply favorite wax/polish product, then use a sheeps wool bonnet to polish out.
Lot of common confusion here. A wax and a polish are 2 very different things. A polish is used to refine a finish after a compounding and a wax provides some protection. In this case all you’d be doing in applying a wax is scratching the panel you just compounded (and in your compounding step you probably left the panel with a haze that needs to be polished). Unless you have someone apply paint protection film after correction, just accept the fine swirls.
I’d advise against basically all of this, unless you want to have someone PPF the panel. And in that case you probably won’t need something as aggressive as a compound to remove swirls.
You obviously haven't done much paint correction, have you?
I have. The deck lid trim panel that we’re talking about isn’t paint...
If you are talking the black plastic material, absolutely don't use a clay bar on that. Painted surfaces and glass are the only places I'd use a clay bar. As I mentioned earlier, you aren't going to removes scratches from that plastic material.
