MannyZ28

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Some detail guy suggested these things to me. They are baby blue in color and are sold at Auto Parts Stores and Wal-Mart, amongst others.

What are they good for? Is removing Wax a good application for them, or should they be used for wiping detailer spray off it? Are they safe?

So far I have used Fieldcrest Royal Velvet 100% Cotton white towles for removing wax and detail spray, are these a good and safe alternative?

Just wondering what everyone's experience was, I am **** as far as swirlmarks are concerned, and my car is red...so they really show up well.

Thanks!


Manny

GM Muscle

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I swear by them now. I will never use cotton on my car again. I get all mine at properautocare.com. I've never tried the cheap ones from the autoparts stores.

jargan04

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I only use high quality microfiber towels from Tropi-Care. I will never touch a cotton towel to a car again. If it's made in microfiber, I have it. Polish towels, detail towels, interior towels, drying towels, wash mitt, applicators and porter cable bonnets.

giant016

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A Microfiber cloth came with the bottle of Nanowax I bought. Honestly, I didn't notice any difference between it and the cotton rags that I usually use. To make it worse, I really hated how it felt on my skin (I'm weird I guess). Maybe this was just a P.O.S towel, though, as it was free.

MannyZ28

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Ah ok...so there's a differnence in them too.

Well, right now I am cleaning up the mess that the "detailer" guy created. Lets just say that the car looks like total *** now. I brought it there nice and clean and freshly clayed, he starts by busting out the old shammy that was sitting in a bucket of dirty water! So he uses that thing to "clean" my car of the dust that was on it from driving it there. Too bad the woodshop across the street from him kept providing an endless amount of dust. At least he used new foam pads....but man...he just kinda went over the whole car like that, and before he did any more damage, I just told him to not clean any of the abundant residue up. Any detailer that would use an old dirt water soaked shammy and swears by Wal Mart Micro Fiber towels can't be worth anything.

So now I am cleaning it all off, so I can start putting some Zaino on it...

Detailers....lol....some of them really suck!

jargan04

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I dont think he should be calling himself a detailer. Microfiber's a great, but dont buy them for walmart or another store like that. Get some quality ones.

MannyZ28

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Just in case you're wondering, all I wanted him to do is to use a polisher to buff out my swirls since I don't have a buffer. Oh well, back to work on it for me...I'll see how it turns out.

ArcticZ28

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Are there really MF towels for each of those uses specifically? I just thought one was the same as another. Some links to the properautocare or tropicare site would be nice

nasty99WS6

check the sticky on the top for appearance hall of fame.

ArcticZ28

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It mentions microfiber towels, but that doesn't answer my question.

nhra-trans-am

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they are great, all i ever use

jargan04

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Yes. Tropi-Care.com Site "Click me"

erok01

Wal-mart and sams mf's are good general purpose towels. I use a waffle weave mf for drying the car and a good quality one for removing product from the paint. The cheap ones are for wheels, rocker panels, engine bay and door jambs. Excel detail has good quality mf's at a good price.

But hands down, no questions asked mf's are 10x better than cotton, period!

catfSSh

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yea i got a 20 pack and i use them to dry the car, was the rims and wheels, waxing, just about everything.

and the major advantage is they leave nothing behind unlike a towel leaves little cloth thingys.

fauslpss

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The only thing I'll ever use to remove wax and detail paint.

ZaneO

Yes, there are a variety of microfiber types made for specific purposes.

Waffle weaves are for drying. Short nap towels work well for cleaning glass and removing wax. Medium nap towels work well for removing polishes, waxes, etc. and for general detailing duties. Longer nap towels work well for quick detailing and final wipedowns.

There are lots of really good vendors out there:

www.pakshak.com
www.dftowel.com
www.exceldetail.com
www.tropi-care.com
www.ultramicrofiber.com
etc.

ThatGuySkye

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Zane got it right on, but forgot to list his site.

227Hawk

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As far as the body on my car. Micro fiber is all that's used inside and out.
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MannyZ28

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Man, I must have been sleeping under a rock for the last two years or so then! Here I am still going at it with the Cotton towels!! Well, I was busy researching my cam, headers and all that's involoved with swapping out a cam, so I really didn't pay much attention to detailing it since it was always being worked on and getting dirty in the process.

Thanks for the info guys, looks like I'll be spending more money on towels!

Black Z/28

I'll chime in. The "Waffle Weave" Drying Towels from Tropi-Care are awesome. I've not seen any locally sold microfiber towels that comes close to these.