Best 1 drying towel to use on multiple cars

pontman43

pontman43

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As some may already know, I now work at a dealer, so, I need to know what the best drying towel would be to use on multiple cars a few minutes apart (not long enough to dry out). Currently I am using a chammy (dont know what it is made out of but its dealer supplied) but its not mine and it seems kinda harsh. I am doing my best not to swirl all the new cars I gotta wash. Kinda fun unwrapping all the new cars. ;)



It needs to be reasonable size, able to wring out and work good again, dry a car fast, and as easy on the paint as possible. BTW I already tried WW MFs, but they only work good untill they are saturated and then when wrung out they leave streaks of water left behind.



TIA
 
Oh ya and any other tools to make things go faster/better?



Already have wheel brush, mitt, crappy cotton towels that lint like crazy, a couple MFs, and chemicals and some good as heck soap (dont know what brand though)
 
Not trying to sound sarcastic at all but... maybe you should have plenty more WW MFs on hand. I wouldn't dry my car any other way. That said, I wash only one car at a time...
 
Is the dealership actually going to pay for new safer supplies? The one I worked for sure wouldn't. And they wouldn't have been willing to pay me to do an Autopian wash either. All they wanted was the dirt to be gone.
 
When a WW is saturated and you wring it out to use it again, even though it does seem to leave streaks behind, the paint does actually dry streak free. It took me a long time to get used to this but it does work.



I use the Sonus Ultimate Drying Towels and wrung out, it could keep going forever.



Ben
 
Yeah, the obvious answer is to use multiple towels. I'm curious as well as to whether you are planning on using your own towels or asking the dealer to pay for them. Also, can't you get a compressed air line in there to blow most of the water off?
 
I will be paying for them, so multiple WWs are out of the question. One WW also doesn't work too well when trying to do it quick. Guess I will just keep using the chammy. And we have a air line, but the chammy works faster. The dealership is concerned about the paint more than I thought they would have, but still not on par with us.
 
I wouldn't worry about those cars if the dealership isn't going to cover the costs of maintaining them. If they want great results, they have to pay for it. Simple as that.



Multiple WWs is the way to go if most of the water can not be blown off the car with the supplied air line.
 
I wouldn't buy supplies on my own to use a work. That should be dealership covered. I would just have them buy a couple more chamois and lay those all over the car, have them absorb most of the water, and then lift them off and follow up with a WW.
 
get a California Water Blade. You can get most of the water off quickly with the blade, then one pass with the towel and you're done. MUCH less wringing.
 
I would suggest the PakShak drying towel. I once used it to dry both my car and that of my wife's and worked surprisingly well even when wet. Maybe Ranney will give you a bulk price deal and you can rotate between towels as they dry out.



I don't like water blades since I think they have a tendency to micromarr.
 
Go get a portable leaf blower at Home Depot. They have a Toro for like $27. Or use a wet/vac that converts into a blower.



The Cali water blade is a good idea too.



But, I wouldn't spend a penny of my own money to help the dealer out. Ask if they have a budget for their cleaning supplies and see if you can get them to include more MF towels. You can probably get them cheap, in bulk, at many of the MF places LIKE HERE Also, see if you can get them to hook up with bulk product companies like Auto Magic or Chemical Guys where the prices are very affordable and yield nice results.



If you are working on brand new cars, try to explain the benefit of using the right products and that a small one time investment will yield excellent results and less potential for customer dissatisfaction in the long run.



Given your young age, enthusiasm, willingness to do the job right and desire for quality workmanship, might peek the interest of the right people there and help you out with moving up the food chain. Hey, maybe they'll be wise and open a detail department and you'll be manager! Imagine, a real detailing place inside a dealer?!
 
I have used a product called the "Absorber" got it at Walmart I think :think:

It works pretty good, just keep wringing it out.
 
If they're not going to pay for it then screw 'em. It's not your fault if the cars get messed up. Maybe they'll even let you put a card in there to fix it once the people realize how screwed up it is lol. The dealership I worked at didn't even have me dry them. I was pretty surprised how little spotting there was though.



That said, I would go with the absorber. Even if it gets some dirt on it you can rinse it off with the hose and it can be wrung out in a second to work just as good as before. The only thing is that I have my suspicions (sp?) about how hard it is on the LSP (which probably isn't on there anyway in your case). I think it could do some damage if a bit of grit was stuck in there too as it doesn't have the cushioning that a WW does, so just be careful.
 
I ended up micro-marring the finish on my black car with the Calif Water Blade and also with The Absorber. Now I use the water blade only on windows.
 
I'd use a CWB. The dealership doesn't care if there are a couple bits of micromarring anyway. I was told to use a CWB and a cheap chamois when I worked at the dealership. I'll give you a tip though...don't let the hard plastic side touch the paint...it'll leave a scuff. :nervous:
 
Spilchy said:
Go get a portable leaf blower at Home Depot. They have a Toro for like $27. Or use a wet/vac that converts into a blower.



The Cali water blade is a good idea too.



But, I wouldn't spend a penny of my own money to help the dealer out. Ask if they have a budget for their cleaning supplies and see if you can get them to include more MF towels. You can probably get them cheap, in bulk, at many of the MF places LIKE HERE Also, see if you can get them to hook up with bulk product companies like Auto Magic or Chemical Guys where the prices are very affordable and yield nice results.



If you are working on brand new cars, try to explain the benefit of using the right products and that a small one time investment will yield excellent results and less potential for customer dissatisfaction in the long run.



Given your young age, enthusiasm, willingness to do the job right and desire for quality workmanship, might peek the interest of the right people there and help you out with moving up the food chain. Hey, maybe they'll be wise and open a detail department and you'll be manager! Imagine, a real detailing place inside a dealer?!
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how are these MF towels (chemical guys and microfibertech) compare to MF towels from say excel detail and Pakshak? Would they have any adverse effect on the paint. How do chem guys/microfibertech.com MF towels compare to the one we can get from say Costco?



Cheers



Nick
 
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