Waxing and polishing

A couple suggestions.
First, place painters tape over all control seal edges. Consider doing the same where your gap sealing tape will be placed because with some waxes the gap tape will not stick.

A lot of the people on this forum are not very contemporary with modern equipment. Use google to look at car detailing videos. Especially regarding polishers. Virtually the whole world is using dual action machines, or as they are called, DA machines. Dual action machines almost eliminate the risk of hot spots or burning of the surface from using too much pressure for too long in one spot.

Also, virtually everyone is using foam pads, not wool. Wool is great but one grain of sand in that pad and you ruin your surface. Foams pads come in a selection of hardnesses that are matched to the grit of the polishing compound. You should also look at what a "clay bar" is.

Rupes is one of the gold standards for DA polishers. They have a whole system of pads and polishes that produce AMAZING RESULTS.

A good single site is THE CHEMICAL GUYS.