When you guys do full paint correction on a car (wash, clay, wash, polish, polish, wax, etc) do you do the polishing process one panel at a time, or do you do the entire car first, then move on to the next step?

In case Im a bit unclear, do you for instance...

Polish the entire car, buff, polish with finer polish again, buff, then wax,

OR

Polish a panel, buff the panel, finer polish the panel, wax the panel, then move to the next panel?

 

I do each step on the whole car..
My theory is that if u do one panel at a time then that harsher polish will splatter over to ur finished panel and make leave small swirls..

 

My thinking was to do one panel, that way, to can redo a step if it's not good enough or something. Seems like you wouldn't know what's going on with a panel, until almost an hour later, everytime. Just curious.

 

one step at a time over the whole car.

it would be like washing 1 panel at a time which no one does.

 

one step whole car here as well

 

have to say i misread the question and had this longwinded reply about the minority opinion!!
i polish one section at a time- polish, wipe down, inspect and then repolish if needed... but like others i polish the entire car before the next step.
then synthetic entire car
then wax entire car

 

1 step whole car then move onto the next polishing stage.

 

like the others have said...

 

I think that's what most detailers do. Polish a panel, inspect, and if necessary, polish again. After the whole car is done, do the same thing with your finishing polish. The important thing is to inspect each panel after you're done with it to make sure you've gotten the results you wanted