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What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« on: February 22, 2016, 06:05:43 PM »
I took a pile of used Microfiber towels in to my wife to wash.  They has been used to detail my bike and from Glare application.  She washes them by hand and said that she won't put them in the washer because they would leave a film on the inside of the washer. In the past, she has taken them to the pay laundramat so as to wreck their washers.

 What do you guys/wives do with your used towels?  Just wondering
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 06:13:44 PM »
Guess I have Glare protected clothing.......my wife has always washed them as a separate load, never thought about residue, & I dang sure ain't gonna tell her now!!!
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 06:32:34 PM »

I always soak them in a 5 gallon bucket with some laundry soap in it first, then run them thru the washer.  I think soaking them in the bucket gets the worst of the Glare remnants off them prior to the washer...

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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2016, 06:36:40 PM »
I don't use Glare so I don't have anything to worry about.   :P

Seriously.....I've always washed them in a load by their self.....haven't noticed an issue on the stainless steel drum or the glass in the door.  :nixweiss:
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2016, 06:55:18 PM »
Microfibers are washed with all the other wash rags & towels.  Used to use Glare, do not use it anymore. 
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2016, 07:02:05 PM »
 
Glare rules!

I wash micro fiber towels by themselves with a dose of Griot's micro fiber and foam pad cleaner.  Works great.  My mom used to tell my dad the same thing about the residue when I was growing up, though.
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2016, 07:11:03 PM »
 
And if they get too nasty, they just get tossed!
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2016, 07:12:51 PM »
Throw them in the washer by themselves or with some of my work jeans t shirts, no issues.
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2016, 08:14:57 PM »
Quote from: JCZ on February 22, 2016, 06:36:40 PM
I don't use Glare so I don't have anything to worry about.   :P

Seriously.....I've always washed them in a load by their self.....haven't noticed an issue on the stainless steel drum or the glass in the door.  :nixweiss:

You may not use Glare but your bike looks as good as it does because I did.

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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2016, 09:15:01 PM »
I can understand her not wanting the silicone from the Glare in the washer. But for those of us who do not use there products, just wash them separately. AutoGeek and other companies have washing instructions, main thing to not do is wash with cotton stuff like regular towels. The microfiber will suck up all the lint from whatever is around it so that is main reason to wash a load of microfiber separately. I have to admit I do wash them with my Underarmor stuff, no complaints.
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2016, 09:23:43 PM »
Great replies. I'm just thankful she doesn't hand me the bucket and say  "Here you go"
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2016, 10:51:43 PM »
Take them to the Laundromat to wash!!! That's what my wife has me do with my shop towels, if they are oil soaked too bad I burn them in the burn barrel!! :orange:
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2016, 10:58:27 PM »
No idea what Glare is, but I have been washing my MF towels in the washer for 12 years now, with no ill effects.
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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2016, 10:46:40 AM »
Quote from: CVO Aqua-Glider on February 22, 2016, 10:58:27 PM
No idea what Glare is, but I have been washing my MF towels in the washer for 12 years now, with no ill effects.

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Re: What do you do with your Microfiber towels after use?
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2016, 10:37:27 PM »
Glare, IMHO, a overpriced wax that has a good snake oil salesman pushing it. Tried it, nothing special. Have a buddy who constantly looks for a Miracle wax that does everything except apply itself, he buys one every show we go to, Glare got him awhile back, I tried his stuff. NOT impressed.
Please, I know everyone has an opinion, but on this no one else's matter,,, to me.
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