I am extremely disappointed I washed my two packs of Costco MF towels last night noticed some were even dirty already they came out not feeling to nice. I know feel does not determine how they will work but those yellow devils are touching my paint either. I will use them for wheels and windows only don’t want to use them in the interior I hate how MF towels are so clingy. I want to invest in some Cobra artic white edgeless MF towels but I don’t mind spending the extra$$ but what I do mind is that in my opinion MF towels in general don’t last very long (staying nice) and get dirty really easy. Legacy99 you use Pakshak ultra plush on paint maybe I should these for the paint do they make edgeless??
Costco yellow MF Towels
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Kean
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....they have an edgeless white towel that's a flat weave. It was one of the towels I bought from PakShak to try out.
Kean
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....I'm still playing with them (I bought several different types of MF's from PS to try out). I do like their WW glass towel which I have had a chance to put to good use. The borderless towel I have had limited experience with though. I did try it out on the glass on my car (to wipe down after washing/drying) and it seemed to work well on that with no shedding. I thought it might make a good glass towel due to the flat weave. I also have a 16x16 Ultra and Ultra-Plush I purchased hoping to find one that could replace my aging "good" paint towels but I have yet to try them out.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
Legacy99 said:
Absolutely correct on both counts.
I can definitely confirm that they lint (and they lint bad), and I can also confirm that they can and do scratch paint. In fact this happened to me just last week: I was using one of these yellow costco Eurow towels to clean the door jambs, and I also started to clean the area just below the door where the side skirt is (on my HHR). I watched the towel as I swiped it across the paint on the side skirt and literally saw a small thin line appear right before my eyes. That was all the confirmation I needed to convince me not to use these on paint.
And they do lint. If you want easy confirmation of that, just try using them to clean a mirror.
Still, I have the Costco coupon that Al referred to, and even though I still have about 8 new ones in the last bag I bought that are still unused, at that price, I will pick up another bag. They are great not only for the dirty jobs on cars, but they are also great around the house to clean counter tops, sinks, etc. I also use them to wipe of the electronic equipment (Blu-ray player, sound processor etc) in my home theater with FK 425.
Toymachine2009
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Where is this coupon found?
ABQDetailer
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I can't comment on the Costco MF but I use the Sams ProForce ones and they are pretty good. I have some older yellow ones and I recently picked up a pack of newer blue ones. Both passed the CD test, but the newer ones are considerably softer. I guess they made some changes? The yellows have been demoted to engine/wheels/etc anyways.
I use the Sams towels mainly for ONR drying. I use Grount Sponges for ONR wash, then I dump one towel into my ONR solution and use it as my primary drying towel (wring it out really good), then I use a completely dry towel for the final drying pass. You know since wet towels dry better than dry towels...
I use Eurow Shag Weave for QD and anything else that requires significant pressure on the paint (buffing, polish removal, etc).
Eurow O'Reilly Corp
If you are paranoid about your MF marring I highly suggest the Eurow Shag Towels. At $2.50 a towel they are really quite a bargain compared to other high knap MF.
I use the Sams towels mainly for ONR drying. I use Grount Sponges for ONR wash, then I dump one towel into my ONR solution and use it as my primary drying towel (wring it out really good), then I use a completely dry towel for the final drying pass. You know since wet towels dry better than dry towels...
I use Eurow Shag Weave for QD and anything else that requires significant pressure on the paint (buffing, polish removal, etc).
Eurow O'Reilly Corp
If you are paranoid about your MF marring I highly suggest the Eurow Shag Towels. At $2.50 a towel they are really quite a bargain compared to other high knap MF.
Jesstzn
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Rob Tomlin said:
Now are you sure it was the towel or did you drag some grit from the door jam down with the towel and the grit did the scratching....
If they lint so bad why would you use them for anything at all.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
Jesstzn said:
No, I can't be sure that it was just the towel that caused the marring. It could have been a piece of dirt from the door jamb...I did look at the towel after it happened, and while it was dark and dirty, I didn't see any grit in it. I just don't think there is enough nap in these towels to be safe.
The lint doesn't bother me much when used on things like door jambs or the engine compartment.
Kean
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I think something that bears repeating (for the the benefit of those like the OP) is that even with a source that may be familiar to some folks, quality can vary between batches in some cases. ....and so can sensitivity to such things as shedding/lint. The orange Vroom towels from Target are a perfect example. I bought a couple dozen for "multi-pupose" tasks. Quite a few folks seemed pretty happy with them and others were actually using them on paint. I figured I couldn't go wrong. ....well, I found these towels had a big (from my point of view) shedding problem. Windows, mirrors, chrome, interior, etc. were now off limits for these towels. Even with repeated washing while the lint has decreased, I have given up on these towels and demoted them to lower tasks.
My experience doesn't mean that others will experience the same problems as I did nor that all of the Vroom towels sold necessarily have the same problem I encountered. ....just something to think about and another reason you want to buy sample-sized quantities first to do your own testing.
My experience doesn't mean that others will experience the same problems as I did nor that all of the Vroom towels sold necessarily have the same problem I encountered. ....just something to think about and another reason you want to buy sample-sized quantities first to do your own testing.
Kean said:
very true. i've seen packs of the same microfiber towels right next to or stacked on top of each other and along with the color being off on one, while the other may feel softer and plusher. i'm very picky and analyze microfiber towels before purchase if i can do so...
2005GTPinMD
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It is in the coupon that got mailed out to Costco members. No worries so at the local Costco here you no longer need to present the coupon.
Dubbin1
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ABQDetailer said:
You have got to be kidding me, those sams club towels are crap. I have a couple dozen that I even question using on jambs.
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David Fermani
Forza Auto Salon
yakky said:
Exactly - I love these towels.
I think some might be getting different towels, costco being so big and all, even though they're all yellow. My local costco carries ones that come in yellow and blue made by superex that I find nice. They pass the cd test but I havn't had a chance to use them yet to see if they lint. I don't mind if they do end up linting a little given the price, but they are some of the best quality bulk towels I've found compared to other ones I've found at other big name stores in kitchen sections etc...
Toymachine2009
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kalalex said:
doesnt have to be a blank CD any cd will work. Any kind of Disc... DVD,CD, whatever you wanna use. Do it on something you prob wont use though just incase it scratches. Rub the back of it and see in the light if its scratched up if it is did not pass if its not it passed.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
....again, I'm not a fan of the "CD Test", but I guess that's just me.