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Hello everyone. First time poster but I have been lurking and reading tons of information on here over the last week or two, it has been very helpful. I am a newbie to the weekend detailing thing and really only because my truck keeps looking worse every week it seems. I have an 03 F150 in black I'm the second owner purchase with about 15k miles so there are no repaints nor has it ever been detailed other than myself adding wax and wash. The roof and hood are looking pretty bad. They have the typical clear coat failure with crows feet, tons of swirls, oxidation and some cloudiness. The sides of the truck look new. I have no plans at this point to repaint the truck but thought I would try to shine her up best I could. I purchased a PC and a couple pads to attempt this. I used a heavy cut cleaner with a wool pad and it removed the oxidation for the most part. ( I went this route before reading to try the lease aggressive way first 
) I also clayed the hood and proceeded to polish with a fine cut compound and a red then yellow polishing pad. I brought quite a bit of shine back which is great but in doing so I also hi-lighted all the remaining swirls and crows feet with white. SO against the black paint it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb. What do you guys recommend to clean out the existing wax and polish that has dried white? I tried washing a section with dawn and also tried wax and grease remover from a autobody supply store neither helped really.
I guess my thoughts are since repaint is an expensive option at this point I was hoping you guys might recommend a way to clean out the existing white stuff then maybe I could find a glaze with lots of fillers that doesn't dry white to try to fill and hide some of those crows feet. I tried to search anything that doesn't dry white and the show car glaze came up. I'm not sure of the filling capabilities of #7, I have read that #80 does a better job filling but it does not say it won't dry white. I purchased #7 and some #26 wax to put on top but currently holding off till I can get the flat surfaces looking decent without all the white hi lights. Please any suggestions would be helpful. My guess is wetsanding would hide some of them but would also thin out the clear speeding up the failing process resulting in a repaint. Thank you in advace.
Here are a couple pictures of issues
) I also clayed the hood and proceeded to polish with a fine cut compound and a red then yellow polishing pad. I brought quite a bit of shine back which is great but in doing so I also hi-lighted all the remaining swirls and crows feet with white. SO against the black paint it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb. What do you guys recommend to clean out the existing wax and polish that has dried white? I tried washing a section with dawn and also tried wax and grease remover from a autobody supply store neither helped really. I guess my thoughts are since repaint is an expensive option at this point I was hoping you guys might recommend a way to clean out the existing white stuff then maybe I could find a glaze with lots of fillers that doesn't dry white to try to fill and hide some of those crows feet. I tried to search anything that doesn't dry white and the show car glaze came up. I'm not sure of the filling capabilities of #7, I have read that #80 does a better job filling but it does not say it won't dry white. I purchased #7 and some #26 wax to put on top but currently holding off till I can get the flat surfaces looking decent without all the white hi lights. Please any suggestions would be helpful. My guess is wetsanding would hide some of them but would also thin out the clear speeding up the failing process resulting in a repaint. Thank you in advace.
Here are a couple pictures of issues
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