I'm a first time color sander. Help!

[IvelDesigns]

sorry for posting this here, but i need some question answered and this forum gets viewed much more than the paint and body forum.

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i'm jumping in head first today. i've started color sanding my truck. it was painted the weekend before memorial day with a BC/CC. When we shot it, we only used a gallon of clear. we were able to get 3 coats out of that gallon (we had 3 coats in mind, but never put thought to that being pretty thin), but i know that probably means the clear is pretty thin.

with that said, i'm using 2000 grit, and am planning to go over that with meguiars fine-cut cleaner #2, then if needed, meguiars machine glaze. I will be using a foam pad for both. on the scale thing on the bottle, the cleaner is shown as a #5 cut, and the glaze as a #1 cut.

my question is, what should the clear look like after color sanding? because the clear was sprayed faster than it should have been on my truck, i have a good amount of orange peel. I've sanded down one fender, and will go take some pics of it and post here. In some parts i have gotten it completely smooth. in others spots, you can still see high and low spots in the clear, aka, the peel.

considering i still plan to go over it with a variable speed buffer, should i get those spots smooth too? should i not worry about getting everything smooth?

i am being very careful not to go through the clear. I'm constantly checking my paper to see if there is any red.

anyways, your comments would be greatly appreciated.