My choice to go with Meguiar's products comes after trying all sorts of different things, Menzerna included. I had massive dusting issues with Menzerna polishes, which may in part be due to the constant heat and extremely low humidity often found here in SoCal. Seriously, 10% humidity is not uncommon. Living in SoCal also means I live very close to Meguiar's HQ in Irvine and they do paint care clinics on Saturdays for various car clubs, and on Thursday nights they open their garage for their forum users. You bring your washed car in and you can use any and all products, machines, etc at no cost with Meguiar's personnel there to lend a hand and teach, plus they even feed you. I have never seen a company work so hard to please their customers and, since their products just plain work, they've basically made a customer for life.

Enough of that though. You won't be surprised now to find that I use their pads for both the DA and rotary. I like using the 6.5" pads on both machines, that way if I need to use a polishing pad with M80 on the DA and find I need to step up to the rotary, I just pull the same pad off one machine and on to the other. I know with the DA the Meguiar's pads like a fair amount more pressure than the Lake Country pads do, especially when using the new line of products from Prima. A friend of mine owns a detail shop locally and is a Prima dealer. I'm a bit mixed about the line and find their best stuff (my use of the term "best") doesn't do any better than Meguiar's does for me, the rest doesn't do as well. It does seem to work better with the Lake pads than it does with the Meg's pads though, but at this point I just don't see a reason for me to have multiple lines of pads in my garage! Heck, I just do this for my own vehicles, some friends & family, etc.