Almost all modern cars are build with a metallic car paint finish. It's an easy thing to have a metallic car paint and with a good clear coat on top, it's not big of a deal to have a shiny looking vehicle. Some cars, however, still got a single stage paints.
Single stage paint is a different kind of car paint, where there's no basic paint covered with clear coat, but more like just colored clear coat (or a mixture between clear coat and a paint), that's just "one stage" of a finish over the car's metal parts. The clear coat itself is both the paint and the protective "cover" over it.
Having a single stage paint and trying to make it shiny sometimes might be a tough one to handle, but most people aren't aware, that those dull looking single stage finishes can be brought back to life even without a machine polishing and compounding. It can be make by hand.
The car on the picture has a single stage paint. It's easy to differ which side was freshly polished and which is not. The left side was hand polished with an All-In-One polish (light polish with added paint protection) by hand with a common yellow rounded applicator. After that a single coat of a paint sealant was added to the finish.
The result is the evidence, that even old and dull single stage paints can be brought back to life without to much trouble.
Hello fellow detailer . You are working in a sun light , that's not good . Btw great result on this Golf . Keep up . I will follow you up to see what more you have .
The car was worked on in a shade, and then put out in the sun, for pictures :)