Actually, it depends on whether you have time to spare or not. There are weeks where I'm tight on the schedule so I just visit the car wash while I do my stuff on their customer lounge.

For me, I'll forego the Mother's Clay kit and simply clay quarterly at your suking car detailer. The clay kit is good for spot-on claying but if you'll be claying the whole car? Better for a pro to do it. Else you'll run out of QD lubricant quickly (Mother's Showtime). On the otherhand, you can always use the car shampoo as a QD. I simply shampoo the car once, rinse, and shampoo again. While it's properly lubricated, that's when I clay. I believe Big Berts does the same method.

As for the drying towel, I really recommend the Microtex. Probably one of my best buys.. really saves time in drying the car. I still need to purchase a Collinite. Hintay ko nalang promo ng Autobisyo ulit, the prices of retail 915 is prohibitively expensive. I'll stick with the weekly Nanoglos nalang since the weather's erratic.