Toymachine2009
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Hey if these towels work good enough for people like yakky or David fermani there good enough for me
Costco yellow MF Towels
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Rob Tomlin
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kalalex said:
I actually grew up in Ventura! But I haven't lived there for 35 years. As for the bass....I love it, but not the fish. The kind that you put in your home theater!
lee@glosshaus
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I haven't seen the latest Costco towels, but the CD test is only good if you're using the whole towel. Most of the cheapo-towels I've seen have a nice little nugget of melted plastic where they've heat-crimped the seam stitching, which makes for scratches/swirls in paint. They are also pretty low on density, usually around 200-220 GSM (grams per square meter).
For use on paint, I want a banded towel, no tags (which also scratch paint - yes I know you can pull tags, but that often leaves scratching little bits of paper in the seam or rips the seam) and a higher density for plushness - starting around 320 GSM. My Uber Fluffy towels are over 700 GSM.
I'm sure the Costco towels are fine for interior/wheels/engine bay, but I'm not going there for paint work.
For use on paint, I want a banded towel, no tags (which also scratch paint - yes I know you can pull tags, but that often leaves scratching little bits of paper in the seam or rips the seam) and a higher density for plushness - starting around 320 GSM. My Uber Fluffy towels are over 700 GSM.
I'm sure the Costco towels are fine for interior/wheels/engine bay, but I'm not going there for paint work.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
I don't use them on glass because they lint too much. But I will use them on glass that is very dirty for the initial wipe.
Jesstzn
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I have been using the yellow Costco towels for 4 years now and I have never had issues with them scratching any more than other towels. If you try hard enough you can make anything fail. I have got some very good towels from PakShack and other quality suppliers that were a lot more money and didn't perform any better or worse. I'm not hung up on status or brand name dropping.
In this forum people tend to sit and analyze the crap out of everything down to the enth degree when in fact its not relevent. I've own(ed) and maintain a few swirl free cars and have yet to find a Costco towel that has marred any of the paints be they soft or hard.
We in here seemed to be super concerned with marring during the wax off stage when the majority of the marring comes in the wash/dry stage.
Yes the Costco yellow towel do lint a bit but unless your wiping windows what difference does it make .. unless looking through the glass into the sun you have to put effort into even seeing it there. You sure as hell can't see it on the paint.
Now comes to the point of removing your wax/sealant with them.. I have yet to find any towels that do a noticably better job of removing sealants and I have tried a lot. If your doing just your own car 3 times a year maybe using a $4 towel is acceptable to keep you in your physiological comfort zone but if your doing a lot of cars its tough to beat them and after the 3rd wash or so move them down to other duties if you feel you need to. I do this by putting a black "X" on them with a Sharpie.
Now back to reality... this "enemy" lint everyone is high on .. tell me right off the top... is it making the polish harder to get off?, is it making your sealant harder to get off? , is it making your sealant look worse? Hell no ... matter of fact its near impossible to see. Sure you know its there .. or is it? Glass has a tendency at times, because of its composition and whats on it, to pull fibers out of the M/F plush towels BUT is it happening on the paint that has just been waxed/sealed? Even if it did .. wouldn't it just blow off or come off in the next wash or come off with the "god forbid" QD used right after you applied the sealant.
Just food for thought....
In this forum people tend to sit and analyze the crap out of everything down to the enth degree when in fact its not relevent. I've own(ed) and maintain a few swirl free cars and have yet to find a Costco towel that has marred any of the paints be they soft or hard.
We in here seemed to be super concerned with marring during the wax off stage when the majority of the marring comes in the wash/dry stage.
Yes the Costco yellow towel do lint a bit but unless your wiping windows what difference does it make .. unless looking through the glass into the sun you have to put effort into even seeing it there. You sure as hell can't see it on the paint.
Now comes to the point of removing your wax/sealant with them.. I have yet to find any towels that do a noticably better job of removing sealants and I have tried a lot. If your doing just your own car 3 times a year maybe using a $4 towel is acceptable to keep you in your physiological comfort zone but if your doing a lot of cars its tough to beat them and after the 3rd wash or so move them down to other duties if you feel you need to. I do this by putting a black "X" on them with a Sharpie.
Now back to reality... this "enemy" lint everyone is high on .. tell me right off the top... is it making the polish harder to get off?, is it making your sealant harder to get off? , is it making your sealant look worse? Hell no ... matter of fact its near impossible to see. Sure you know its there .. or is it? Glass has a tendency at times, because of its composition and whats on it, to pull fibers out of the M/F plush towels BUT is it happening on the paint that has just been waxed/sealed? Even if it did .. wouldn't it just blow off or come off in the next wash or come off with the "god forbid" QD used right after you applied the sealant.
Just food for thought....
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
You must be kidding. You can't see lint on paint? I can sure as hell see in on my red HHR, and it is as annoying as hell.
Jesstzn
New member
You must be getting different yellow Costco towels than I get then because I have a few pristine cars I do and I'm not seeing it on them .. on the glass yes .. on the paint no .. WDP TL , black Passat, red 2000 BMW, red Ferrari just to name a few ... plus the hundred or so others i do.
Let me stand corrected .. I did see linting once ... on a black Jag I was doing and I applied the sealant in too high a humidity and I got a little streaking and I was experimenting with different QD sprays to remove the streaks an a couple of QDs showed lint when I was using them.
Let me stand corrected .. I did see linting once ... on a black Jag I was doing and I applied the sealant in too high a humidity and I got a little streaking and I was experimenting with different QD sprays to remove the streaks an a couple of QDs showed lint when I was using them.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
Jesstzn said:
Here is a picture of the ones that I get from Costco:
Used a brand new one today...I still do not think that these are of very high quality. Cetainly not good enough for paint imo.
Dan
Well-known member
Rob Tomlin said:Here is a picture of the ones that I get from Costco:
Used a brand new one today...I still do not think that these are of very high quality. Cetainly not good enough for paint imo.
Wow, I guess mystery solved. My yellow Costco microfibers come in a different bag and are not eurow brand.
Jesstzn
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I have 2 unopened ones down in the shop and neither look like that nor are they Eurow branded.
wascallyrabbit
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Rob Tomlin said:Here is a picture of the ones that I get from Costco:
Used a brand new one today...I still do not think that these are of very high quality. Cetainly not good enough for paint imo.
looks like the bags i've seen at my costco all summer. last summer they had a different bag but the eurow name was on the back.
Rob Tomlin said:Here is a picture of the ones that I get from Costco:
Used a brand new one today...I still do not think that these are of very high quality. Cetainly not good enough for paint imo.
I can't see the size, are they 16 x 16 or 12 x 16?
They seem to carry two yellow mf towel variety, the 16 x 16 should be plusher at 350gsm, the 12 x 16 are 300 gsm. Their shag towels are pretty popular and sold on some detailing sites.
My local costco carries a different brand I find really nice, but they're distributed by a canadian company.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
yakky said:
Jesstzn said:
Now we're getting somewhere!
Can one of you post a pic of the Costco towels that you get?
Thomas Dekany
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Are you on AVS forum?
Rob Tomlin said:I actually grew up in Ventura! But I haven't lived there for 35 years. As for the bass....I love it, but not the fish. The kind that you put in your home theater!
Thomas Dekany
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Thery are on sale for $9.00 getting my 3rd pack but I do not use it on paint. Jambs deals etc... only.
However the ones from WM the 15 pack (green/orange/yellow for $9.87) are much better quality imo.
However the ones from WM the 15 pack (green/orange/yellow for $9.87) are much better quality imo.
Rob Tomlin said:Here is a picture of the ones that I get from Costco:
Used a brand new one today...I still do not think that these are of very high quality. Cetainly not good enough for paint imo.
Rob Tomlin
Lotus Exige S
tdekany said:
Yep, that's me!
I think I saw you on one of the car forums too. Was it Rennlist?
tdekany said:
Yeah, I picked up another pack at Costco on sale. We use them a lot around the house, as well as door jambs, wheels, etc on the cars.
I will have to check the ones from WM out some time.