I used to use the late night - early morning bandit technique at Carlovers, I`d take a sealed bucket with car wash, warm water and a mitt in it. Now, I have rain water tanks installed at home. My reason to use Carlovers was water restrictions. Okay so it didn`t rain, what to do? I`ve got this hillbilly set up where the air con from my living room goes into a 20 litre plastic container, a thin one that doesn`t take up too much space in my piss poor carport. Into this, I fitted a water feature pump, ran some hose from there up and along the ceiling of said car port and into my twin 1,000 litre tanks. When you consider for a couple months of summer I can be putting 40 plus litres a day in there from my living room A/C ( 200 litres a week, no sh!t ) Once you start using a Karcher - Gerni or whatever you can not go back to an N/A garden hose. Just to sum up, I use a Wool wash mitt now, its great. Chamois will scratch you car worse than a sponge in my opinion, I use those microfibre polish cloths to dry with. Okay, I have a couple dearer ones for polishing with Autoglym super resin polish. But I`ve got several rolls of those cheaper ones ( look the same to me ) bought from teh Warehouse, crazy who ever`s, to dry the car with. More often not I find if the car comes up really nice with just a wash and dry with the microfibre cloths and no polish. I am prone to polish it for no real reason though, like most nutcases.