Diving in! Shopping list critique.

[The Guz]

You are going to get a lot of recommendations on products to use.

I made a similar post on another thread similar to this.

Compounds: Sonax Cut Max (diminishing abrasive), Meguiar's M110 (non-diminishing abrasive aka SMAT), 3D ACA

Polishes: Sonax Perfect Finish, Sonax EX 04-06, Optimum Hyper Polish, Meguiar's 210 (if you choose to stay with the Megs twins)

Compounding polishes: 3D One, Sonax Cut & Finish

I list a compound because you never know if you need one until you do a test spot.

If you are going with CQUK the Essence pairs nicely with it. It is not required to use the coating. It is a primer polish. I would also add to get yourself some Gliss and use that instead of Reload that comes in the kit.

[SWETM]

How is the defects on the paint of the Volvo XC 60?

If you have a lot of swirls I would grab a compound and some mf cutting pads or even some wool pads for a DA polisher. Or you might notice that you will be compounding 2 times with a less aggressive combo. Since they can have pretty hard paints Volvos.

Sonax Cutmax or 3D ACA for compounds
Sonax Cut & Finish or 3D One medium cut polish
Sonax Perfect Finish or EX 04-06 or/and Carpro Essence

Sonax Perfect Finish and Carpro Essence can be usefull if you have a finicky paint on the Subaru or sticky paint as it can be called sometimes.

LC Low Lint Wool Pads or LC Purple Foamed Wool Pads or B&S Uro-Wool is suited for DA polishers. Especially with a 8mm free spinning DA polisher you can be needed to be useing a more aggressive compound and pad combo on harder paints. You might also be considering the Griots Garage 6" polisher with a 5" backing plate on it and 5" or 5.5" pads. It's a notch more powerfull electric motor in it than the PC XP polisher.