Not necessarily. My meguiar's microfibers (the supreme shine at least) had tags. Just tear them off before I used them.

I don't remember if the waffle weave did or not.


For drying I usually use an "absorber" towel on the big panels. Then I have two of the water magnet towels that I use for the rest of the car. Flooding it first gets rid of a ton of water, and it makes drying quick.

I did have a huge waffle weave microfiber I bought at o'reilly's and it worked very well. It was really big and I could about dry the entire car with it. I ended up giving it to my dad in hopes he wouldn't use the bath towels anymore.

I love the water magnet towel from meguiars. It works extremely well. I use good non-waffle weave that I bought at sam's or somewhere similar in the engine bay as well as for glass and such. I have the supreme shine microfibers from meguiars for removing wax (applied with orbital)

Shamwow's sucked. I also bought a drying towel that meguiars made. I forget what it was called, but they marketed it as a "microfiber chamois" and unlike normal chamois, you could use it dry. It sucked, really bad. Wouldn't absorb enough to dry off a headlight. I use it to dry off the dogs after a bath. So wouldn't recommend it.