This probably won’t surprise anyone around these parts, but microfiber towels are a car wash and detailing essential.

Believe it or not though, there’s more than one type of microfiber towel and, more importantly, there are specific use cases for each one.

To help sort all this out (literally and figuratively), we found this handy microfiber towel care and use video from the experts over at Covercraft. 

collection of microfiber towels on a porsche spoiler
(Image/The Covercraft YouTube Channel)

Covercraft specializes in things like car covers and seat covers, and all sorts of other accessories that help you preserve and protect your vehicle—certainly proper car cleaning techniques fall nicely in that wheelhouse too.

So if you’ve got a shelf full of microfiber towels and haven’t given them much thought lately, it might be a good idea to give this one a watch: