Brad B
New member
Has this ever happened to you? Something nasty lands on your paint. Bird poo. Tar. Sap. You get the idea. If your like me, you just hate to trash a big clean expensive microfiber towel on this tiny little spot. And if you do, then you can't use that towel until you wash it. Grrrr!
What I did is purchase a whole bunch of cheapie microfibers and cut them up into smaller ones. I simply cut them in four. Now I have a whole slew of 'emergency spot repair' towels. They are small. I keep a bunch of them in each car. Just toss 'em in the glove box.
I use these once, then toss them in my dirty towel hamper and wash them when I collect a few.
A few tips: Naturally over time the towels can become unbound at the edges, but it really does take a long time-many, many washes. One solution is to bind the edges by running them through a sewing machine. My wife has a machine and it took her all of 10 minutes to do about 20 towels. You can have this done by a pro for under $10. You can also take a hot iron and run it over the edges of the towel. The polyester content of the towel heats up and seals the edges. It gets slightly stiffer at the edge but you don't use that anyway so it doesn't scratch anything. And it doesn't leave any trace on the iron. Trust me, my wife was watching.
I tend to wash these towels dozens of times and re-use them. But if I get something particularly nasty encrusted in it, I just throw it away. And since they are so cheap I don't worry about it.
And my nice fluffy, expensive microfibers are all safe and sound!:clap:
What I did is purchase a whole bunch of cheapie microfibers and cut them up into smaller ones. I simply cut them in four. Now I have a whole slew of 'emergency spot repair' towels. They are small. I keep a bunch of them in each car. Just toss 'em in the glove box.
I use these once, then toss them in my dirty towel hamper and wash them when I collect a few.
A few tips: Naturally over time the towels can become unbound at the edges, but it really does take a long time-many, many washes. One solution is to bind the edges by running them through a sewing machine. My wife has a machine and it took her all of 10 minutes to do about 20 towels. You can have this done by a pro for under $10. You can also take a hot iron and run it over the edges of the towel. The polyester content of the towel heats up and seals the edges. It gets slightly stiffer at the edge but you don't use that anyway so it doesn't scratch anything. And it doesn't leave any trace on the iron. Trust me, my wife was watching.
I tend to wash these towels dozens of times and re-use them. But if I get something particularly nasty encrusted in it, I just throw it away. And since they are so cheap I don't worry about it.
And my nice fluffy, expensive microfibers are all safe and sound!:clap:
