Meguiar's Ultra Finishing Polish M205 Reviews

Worked great!

This polish works well and very well priced, but very difficult to wipe off. There are too many better options for me to use this again. They are more expensive but worth it in my opinion.

Awesome product! When combine with M101 the results are crystal clear paint reflection. Super easy to apply and very slick result. Super easy to remove and last on each application.

Great finishing polish. M205 does have an extremely minimal cut to it, so if your paint is in great shape you can remove lighter swirls and water marks, but M205 is ideally meant to be used with its sister polish M105. The M105 does the cutting for removal of swirls, scratches and etc where M205 is meant to provide a perfectly clean-glossy finish. M205 does just this. It is a finishing polish that finishes very clean, provides great gloss, and some extra pop to your paint color. No negative things I can say about this polish and highly recommend it to anyone that is: 1. Polishes their own car or 2. Is doing this as an extra step after M105 as prep work for a coating.

Pair up with a orange Lake country light cutting pad or white polishing pad, gets great results. Love this stuff!

Great finishing polish. Works best after using a stronger cutting polish (m105) or on scratch free paint. It's more of a gloss enhancer than a scratch remover.

Easy to use, gives decent working time even in Texas summer heat. Delivers a nice finish when used with hexlogic pads on DA.

Good stuff...took urethane 2K out to nice finish from 2500 wet sand.

Great product. I use it with a microfiber cutting pad either after M105 or by itself.

Great stuff. Easy to use. Easy to wipe off. 205 is my go-to for soft paint.

Part of a detailer's bread & butter. I use this on 95% of the correction jobs I do. I have tried other finishing polishes, but I always find myself coming back to M205.

This is a staple to my compound/polish inventory. If you don't have it, you are missing out huge. Excellent product!!

First time user. It works great, would purchase again.

Great product will buy again

This will forever have a place on my shelf. I don't know what kind of witchcraft is in this thing. Works on the softest paint and works well for all polishing you got.

This is a really great product, however it works much better with a regular buffer and finishing pad than with a DA machine, that's my experience. Great product and a great price. Why mess with other products that are more expensive and don't work any better.

This is our go to polish for paint in reasonable condition. Have not found anything better with the same results. We use about five gallons a year which says it all.

Excellent chemical, great results from the beginning, easy to work with, and delivers, wasn't expecting anything less from such product. Me in particular, I am just an enthusiast detailer, butI did not find any cons to the product. I have used it for quite some time now and every time great results.

Easy to apply and remove. However as I stated in my review of the 105 using my 2nd gen Griots Garage RO and the orange and MF fast finishing pad I didn't notice too much defect removal with either pad on both products. I will say it does give a great shine.

My go-to polish. I always use it on polishing pads from any manufacturer. My favorite are the Griot's Garage Yellow Perfecting pads.

Im very new to detailing and M205 with a rotary and blue light cutting pad was easy to work in, with long work time. After using M105 for previous step this polish was enjoyable in work comparison. Topped it off with Menzerna 4000, CG Wet Mirror glaze, & CG Butter Wet Wax. With each step my car responded with a deeper smoother machined high gloss. WOW!

Mequiar's has always set the standard in this industry. It never fails me!!

A very good product

Very easy to work with. One of the best polishes I have tried. I used it with my Rupes Bigfoot and the Rupes White polishing pads. It has never let me down and I highly recommend it.

Extremely easy to apply and remove. Very effective. I will buy this product again.

This is an excellent product. The 105/205 combo is a great choice for tons of vehicles. They have a great work time and break down, finish out great. One of the very few polishes that finish nice on subaru obsidian black pearl. Follow this up with menzerna SF4500 to jewel the paint, super clear. Just a great product

Was looking for a very light polish to apply by hand to a couple of spots that needed correction on my daily driver. M205 was the perfect solution. I followed up the polishing step with a CG glaze, CG Hybrid Black Light and 2 coats of Natty's Blue wax. Areas are now invisible and blend completely with panels. Would highly recommend for paint that is already in reasonably good shape.

Can you argue with success? Heck no you can't! So why haven't you bought M205 yet?! Read all the reviews, not just here, but every where! This little polish is the cream of the crop, so much so that I'm pretty sure we could have polished communism out of the Soviet Union. No joke, this could have ended the cold war so much sooner, and everyone would have had awesomely polished cars. Not only is it 100% Pure American Freedom in a bottle, it is also an exceptional finishing polish. Its ease of use is very nice in a professional grade product making it accessible and fun to use for all levels of skill. The working time is among the best I have used and the SMAT abrasives in it allow for a flawless finish and a constant level of cut. This allows it to pretty much be a perfect finisher to any level of polish or compound used before it. Only cons are the amount of oils left over after polishing, these don't allow your wax or sealant to perform as well, so removal with a Dawn wash or IPA wipe down is necessary. Works wonders, thank you Meguiar's for such an amazing product!

Good compound, very fine finish, only needed after 105 for a very deep gloss.

Wow simply amazing used this with a pc and a orange pad,even with poor incandecent garage lighting,and being a total novice,this made my 97 BUICK blue hair special look amazing,even got some props from two 70 year men LOL!!!!!

Excellent! I used it on my wife's and my carbon fiber road bikes. It created an amazing shine on the carbon!

I've never been disappointed with a Meguiars product and this one keeps my faith.

Easy to use and amazing results when you are finished. I spent as much time admiring the finish product as I did using it.

Have used it a few times only by hand, works good just have to make sure you use a decent amount of pressure. I will be using my random orbital buffer soon before I put it away for the winter I can't wait.

Brilliant long buffing finishing polish from Meguiar's delivery awesome results. Pro: Great buff time, amazing finish, and lack of dusting. Con: Only so much corrective work that can be done. Using this after Meg's 105 is an awesome combo correction wise. I simply love how easy it is to polish the surface since this product flashes so wet without any hazing or hard dusting. I've used this with Lake Country's HiTech Pads and regular pads. Quite sufficient to remove buffer hologramming and light marring. By far my most favorite polish to bring out gloss and to follow up Meg 105.

I used this with a white LC pad and my PC on all of the surfaces of the car (only the horizontal surfaces needed Megs 105 with an orange LC pad). It had a longer work time than 105 and finished down very well. I was very impressed. Again, I would recommend reading the blog entry on the correct use of this polish before you begin.

I've used a few polishing products over the years for some minor marring corrections by hand, but the M205 is a really nice one for both touchup work and machine work to get the paint looking new again. This will be the product I stick within the future for my general low correction level needs.

Definitely recommend this stuff!! Satisfied:)

I bought this hoping that I could remove light swirls on my brand new Blue Sensation Honda Fit. I also used the porter cable and the LC white polishing pad. The great thing about the 205 is that it goes on pretty easily. I'm a firm believer in the "less is more" theory, so with that in mind I applied a minimal amount of product to each panel I was working. After doing several passes per panel, I was left with a smooth and mostly swirl free finish. A couple more passes in problematic areas resulted in a completely swirl free finish. I was really happy at the results. One tip is to definitely mask off your trims so you don't spend a bunch of time trying to remove the product from strippings and such. I didn't do this and had to spend a bunch of time at the end of my detail trying to get that stuff off. I highly recommend 205 for removal of light paint defects. A+

After reading all the reviews of people having good results with this product I decided to give it a try. Knowing it was a finishing polish I didn't expect much of a difference from Menzerna 106. On my fresh painted new hood there was some scuffs and light scratches, so I took out my white LC pad with m205. After one section pass it took everything out and my surface was LSP ready. It was not required to refine the paint since it was already looking so good. Would buy again definitely.

Great follow up to the m105 product, I am sticking with this combo for now.

M105 works GREAT, especially in conjunction with the M205 polish. Used my Porter Cable XP orbital polisher with small dabs of M105 on a yellow pad and polished the hazy/cloudy headlights on my wife's 2004 Acura MDX. Followed up with a blue pad and M205. Total time elapsed was about 20 minutes and the headlights look BRAND NEW. Used a blue pad with M205 to polish the rest of the vehicle, and it looks just great too. I'm thrilled with the M105/M205 products. It was very gratifying to get my wife's vehicle looking that good - especially since she bought me the Porter Cable XP for Father's Day!

Goes great following the 105. They have a great system with the 105/205.

As a first time polisher, this worked great with the white pad and was easy to use!

Product worked as expected.

Excellent finishing polish. Even works great on single stage paint.

Great compound, been using this over some of my Menzerna products recently. Its good stuff.