Ok I cannot be the only one on this, but I have tried so many different window cleaners and towels to clean windows. From newspaper to super plush microfibers, I have tested and tested. What I want to find out from all of you is what have you seen work good for a window towel... Also what prices are you paying. I have gotten micro fibers at 4.99 or higher each to some in a multipack for $7. I do a lot of cars throughout the week, and I am trying to be wise in what I buy. If any of you have any towel suggestions that come at a reasonable price please post your suggestions! Thanks!!!:2thumbs:
Window Towels!!!
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imported_shine
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These have worked great for me.
Mr. Stewart
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To do windows right you need to have a quality towel and a quality window cleaner. Fold the towel twice. Use one side of the towel as your cleaning (wet) side and the other side as you buffing (dry) side. Mist the window with your cleaner then clean the window with the cleaning side in a circular motion. Once the window is cleaned, then flip the rag to the dry side and buff it out until it is streak free. You can also you two towels so you don't get mix up on what side you were using for cleaning and buffing. Just have a cleaning rag and a buffing rag. I get my stuff from Car Care Rx. I use their blue microfiber towels for windows. Make sure you never wash your window towels with any other towels. If you get wax or grease on your window towels you will have problems getting your towels streak free.
Cobra's Waffle Weave Glass towel from Autogeek is the best glass towel I've ever used.
The Glass Master also works great. I can't recommend it enough.
One tip I've picked up, is to wipe the inside of the window using verticle strokes, and the outside using horizontal strokes. That makes it easier to see where the streaks are.
The Glass Master also works great. I can't recommend it enough.
One tip I've picked up, is to wipe the inside of the window using verticle strokes, and the outside using horizontal strokes. That makes it easier to see where the streaks are.
Driven Auto Detail
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Not sure if Jimmy Buff-It will chime in or not, but I'll do it for him I guess. The best towels, by a long shot, are blue medical towels. Sounds crazy, but whatever material they are made of, works fantastically.
Medical Action O.R. Towels, Non-Sterile, Blue, 17" x 26", 100/cs
Medical Action O.R. Towels, Non-Sterile, Blue, 17" x 26", 100/cs
Pats300zx
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The best towels for me for glass are white waffle weaves from Walmart. A two pack is $2.97.
Bunky
Detailing Gnosis
I used two towels ...initial wipe then dry. That works but have not been the perfect combo.
Most amazing towels I have found are from Norwex which are suggested on DetailingWiki. I tried everything - multiple cleanings, multiple towels, Stoners, IA but still came up with hazing/streaking. Bought 4 window towels and sprayed on some water.........hazing is gone.........perfectly clear. No more cleaners, no more waffle weaves.
Howard
Howard
David Fermani
Forza Auto Salon
mshu7 said:
Huck/Surgical towels are my favorite too. They absorb alot better and faster than Microfiber and don't lint one bit. I use the MF for finishing.
Bunky said:
2 Towel Method all the way.
Chris@Optimum
Optimum Product Support
safetyman2010
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mshu7 said:
I'll attest to this. We buy them in a 30 lb box for around $60 from an industrial supply company. Best (and fastest) way I have ever done windows is to take a "broken in" synthetic chamois that is perfectly clean and have it damp or freshly wrung out and use it to do the wet cleaning on the windows and use the surgical towels for drying and touch ups. Saves a ton of time and leaves no streaks.
salty
Active member
ShineShop said:
Thats pretty much the way i do it. Straight water with maybe a touch of cleaner. The aggravation of the synthetic chamois, i think my window towels are Rayon, cleans them and the towel drys them streak free.
In the winter I wring out most of the water and summer leave the cloth wetter.