What's your #1 Glass Cleaning Method.. product and towels used?

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ShawnF350

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I have been using Poorboy's Glass cleaner with Towel Pros Green thin ribbed Glass Towel.
Glass Cleaning Towels .

I wet one towel and wring it out. Fold it in four. Then spray product on the damp towel and clean the window.. followed by an unfolded dry green towel.

Well yesterday my MIL asked what I use and wants to buy what I use.
My wife was going to give her a spray bottle. Don't you love when people want your products?

I'm tempted to get her some 3D Glass Cleaner (1gal is half the price of Poorboys,) and order comparable towels from the Rag Co.

Any suggestions?
 
Dear Friends

For a real cleaning, I like CarPro's glass pads with Ceriglass and my Griot's (v2) polisher followed by a couple of Eraser wipedowns.

For in-between cleanings, I like a very tiny bit of Meguiar's D120 (I think that's the number) with CarPro's Fast Glass towels. These towels feel like heavy paper towels, but they're about as tough as any microfiber towel. They don't lint.

I keep a Fast Glass towel and a 2.5-ounce pump-spray bottle of the Meguiar's cleaner in the van because my son touches the glass and so does our Shih Tzu. Cleaning up behind them typically takes less than ten seconds with the Fast Glass towel and Meguiar's cleaner. The trick for me is to use very little cleaner so I don't have to scrub so long.

I wish they'd make an air freshener based on the smell of the Meguiar's glass cleaner.
 
during wash/prep i clay or steel wool the glass. in my head i think this helps to clean the glass better. i know this is good but my glass cleaning still sucks. i prefer to use paper towels & meg glass cleaner gives me the best results. i tried all the glass towels. i like none of them.
 
I've struggled over the years to obtain consistently good results so have tried tons of products. Stumbled upon 3D's 50:1 Glass Cleaner and Surgical Huck Towels a few years ago.

The first wipes with a towel dampened with the cleaner (about 5-6 sprays) produces a grabby haze on the glass and as you continue to wipe with a second dry towel you can feel the haze being removed until the glass is very slick. I'm able to produce streak free results even without good lighting as you can feel the glass get clean as the haze is removed. I believe the Surgical Huck towels work so well because they are more substantial than a MF or plain cotton towel and they have a grain to their weave.

To top it off you can't beat the price. 16 oz of the Glass Cleaner is $7.99 and you only need .5 oz per 25 oz of water so it ends up costing about $.50 per 25 oz of mixed cleaner if you use distilled water.
 
I have recently been having really good luck using two microfiber towels, one damp with plain water, one dry. I wipe/scrub the glass with the damp one, then dry & buff the glass before the water can dry on its own. The windows have been coming out great with no streaks or smears. I started doing this on the exterior glass while drying the car and it worked so well that I tried it on the interior with great results.
 
Spray Poorboy's Glass Cleaner, wipe with a Rag Company glass towel, then follow with a clean and dry Microfiber Madness window towel. Only method that works for me.
 
Be careful using steel wool these days, some auto "glass" is really, *REALLY* soft compared to how autoglass used to be when it was "more glass/less plastic".
 
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