doing paint correction over the winter on my 1998 M Imola Red

[Z3ms52]

Couple of questions related to doing paint correction over the winter on my 1998 M Imola Red

I know there's really no way of determining the thickness of ClearCoat….
So I'm trying to determine best ways to measure how much I take off after buffing/polishing.
I'd like to buy a paint gauge off Amazon… Any recommendations?
Also any thoughts on what the original thickness of the paint/clearcoat should be?

Any Thoughts/suggested would be appreciated…

[Mless5]

Unless you plan on wet sand the car for whatever reason or your car has been repainted, you don't really need to worry about thickness during routine compounding/polishing. If you're using random orbital buffer you definitely don't need to worry and if you're busting out a rotary polisher, as long as you play it safe/smart you should be good as well.

[josephraza]

You don't really need to worry about thickness during routine polishing.