Car Drying Towels

[gimmecoffee]

This is why I love this forum (new to BMW, hi!). Very insightful. I was simply looking around for things I need to buy to clean/detail my car, and I feel this thread more than answered the microfiber towels part!

[gimmecoffee]

Originally Posted by tracer bullet

It's of course possible. My dryer doesn't run particularly hot, and I have buttons to choose heat levels and normally run it a notch below normal. No problems so far...

Maybe just get a couple new towels and di a side by side comparison? There could be some hard water things going on too, since rinse cycles aren't hooked up to RO water. Tiny bit of minerals dry on things each wash, and adds up after a while.

Nothing lasts forever...

So, what's the preferred approach here? Dry on low? Hang it out on a clothesline?

[tracer bullet]

I dry on low, I can't speak for anyone else or what any official towel experts would say. So far, so good.

[Slaxer]

I dry mine on the lowest temp setting for my dryer. I've always found a clothesline to be preferable if you have that option for ensuring that you're minimizing the stress that all your fabrics take during laundering.

[Phillies8008]

Yeah, I don't really know if there's anything to the "don't put them in the dryer" thing, other than what I hear and read. I've always avoided it just because it's easy to hang them up, so why not? But it definitely could be one of those conventional wisdom things that everyone repeats without really knowing why they're saying it.

[tracer bullet]

Originally Posted by Phillies8008

I've always avoided it just because it's easy to hang them up, so why not?

Case dependent, I guess. I tend to save up towels until I have enough to wash, and afterwards I just want the job of washing them over with (I'm not patient by nature!). I could do it, but cross my fingers the low heat isn't too harmful on them.

[egparson202]

Originally Posted by Phillies8008

Yeah, I don't really know if there's anything to the "don't put them in the dryer" thing, other than what I hear and read. I've always avoided it just because it's easy to hang them up, so why not? But it definitely could be one of those conventional wisdom things that everyone repeats without really knowing why they're saying it.

Just speculation on my part, but it may be because of residual fabric softeners in the dryer from the use of dryer sheets on regular laundry.

[2Slo_F83]

Blackline is impressive! Previously, used to use Meguiar's magnet towels

[WytLytnyn]

Originally Posted by Phizzzle

Baby blankets from the hospital? Lol. I use Chemical Guys Wooly Mammoth. Highly recommended, a bit pricey but one towel completely dries off our X5.

Same. Use cheaper Rag Co. black towels to dry the wheels with 303 graphene detailer as a drying aid.

[Coolchuck]

Originally Posted by 2Slo_F83

Blackline is impressive! Previously, used to use Meguiar's magnet towels

I’ve been wondering about these blackline towels. Maybe they’re worth a try.

[reillyrocks]

i know this sounds strange but i've had amazing recent luck with drying the car spotfree on my ceramic finished G16 using these crazy microp-fiber-super-soft 'hot yoga mat' line of towels. They absorb so much when i pull them slowly across the surface of my car after the leaf blower water removal. I buy them and cut them up into a variety of sizes and they also work great as a final step for cleaning the glass. I'm completely taken with these and highly recommend. My wife wasn't thrilled when she saw i scavenged her towel mat but when i showed her the result and her spotless clean white G16 she was shocked and happy. I have purchased a couple more and am so pleased, good luck....
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V31TF2Y...sin_title&th=1

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by reillyrocks

i know this sounds strange but i've had amazing recent luck with drying the car spotfree on my ceramic finished G16 using these crazy microsoft 'hot yoga mat' line of towels. They absorb so much when i pull them slowly across the surface of my car after the leaf blower water removal. I buy them and cut them up into a variety of sizes and they also work great as a final step for cleaning the glass. I'm completely taken with these and highly recommend. My wife wasn't thrilled when she saw i scavenged her towel mat but when i showed her the result and her spotless clean white G16 she was shocked and happy. I have purchased a couple more and am so pleased, good luck....
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V31TF2Y...sin_title&th=1

At first I was like, I must've misread "Microsoft", but no.

"Oh crap, my towel just bluescreened!"

"Have you tried turning off and back on again?"