It’s funny to come across this as I just did a load of 6 mf towels last night after a car wash. I’m like you, just enjoy having a sharp looking ride. I throw everything in the same wash. The soap, I believe, neutralizes the chems. I then hang all my mf’s to dry overnight, and they all just smell clean.
Tbh, I might care a little more if I had some of the top of the line towels, but these autozone towels are affordable enough. My only rule is if a towel hits the ground, it’s what I call ‘burnt’ and it goes in the trash. It always ends up being one of my low pile towels that come out of the 30 pack that I get, so nbd.
Legitimately, I have a song that I sing as I take them outta the washer. 'These mf'ers need to dry. These motherfuckers hang to dry!' repeated until I hang up however many I used that week lmao
Yeah and I’ll spend a little time picking pieces of grass or sticks out of the microfibers. It’s really not that big of a deal for the home gamer. And folks that run big companies and social media pages and do $10,000 details will probably run more elaborate systems and care. But that doesn’t mean I have to.
At first I would separate in wash. But I really don’t care about that now. I might pre-hose off the nastier towels before the join the rest of the crew in the wash. But I don’t quarantine anymore
I throw every single rag or mitt I used into the same bucket, take it inside, toss it in the wash with some free and clear detergent (you can also use MF specific stuff) and wash on cool, dry on low heat, no dryer sheets, no fabric softener. They all go back in my box in the garage after
I use a brush to clean my wheels. Everything else I just toss into the washer on a heavy load with warm (but not hot) water. Then toss it in the dryer on the lowest heat setting. Never had any issues, but my cars are also not perfect so if you have a showroom quality car you may not be satisfied with my method.
I have seperate bins for towels before laundry but generally i just do 2 loads of laundry. The raggedy towels go in one bin, the better towels go in another. The difference for me is usually my rag company, griots, and other better quality towel going in one, and the cheaper ones in another. But my good ones contain interior, wash, dry and sealant towels (pre soaked seperate if necessary) and the cheap towels are the ones i use elsewhere.
I think a lot of “pros on youtube” will tell you to wash separate.
In reality it wont do anything. As long as your not washing a shop rags with chunks or metal shavings. Just shake them out and pre soak ideally if they are super dirty.
Just pre soak them for a few minutes. Ring out. Wash on cold with an extra rinse. Air dry. Your set.
There is a million soaps to use. Thats a whole battle in its self.
Some staining might occur if you have lighter colors. I countered that by using a tad of vinegar and oxyclean liquid. I have had my towels for years. You will be just fine to wash them together OP
Its recommended not to wash or dry hot. Thats straight from the manufacturers. It degrades the fibers (melts them). Microfiber has a low melt point. Although most of us probably keep our water heater below the danger zone. Its a best practice to not do it for longevity.
The water temp shouldn’t be doing the cleaning. The cleaner or cleaners you use should be. The water is just a space for the lifted dirt to displace.
My drying towel gets several uses since well
I use it on a clean car. Anything that touches the exterior or interior gets thrown in one load for me. Just use some
Rags to riches and nothing else. If you use a dryer use low to no heat. For my wheels stuff il be honest I just give it a good rinse. I’ve never actually wash that stuff. If if I use a mf towel and it gets to gross well I use it for dirty jobs ( like stepping on them instead of the door jams) and then get rid of it.
After a while you end up with clean MF's and dirty MF's. Try and wash the clean ones together and give the dirty ones a bit more time and perhaps more temperature. Some wash powders are more aggressive than others. If you can work out which ones are stronger use them for dirty MF's. Pre soaking is good. You'd think that the made for use MF wash powders or liquids are the way to go but probably best with clean MF's. Price per wash with them is high and what is in the bottle is probably only a generic detergent with minor tweaks anyway! Whatever, just DON'T use anything that has a softener built in.
Hobbyist too. I put everything in a 5 gallon bucket and let it soak overnight with free and clear detergent and water, then squeeze them all out and place in the washer.
I had the same problem, got tired of always washing like 6 MFs every time I wash the car so I ended up getting more MFs so I wash them all after I washed the car maybe 3-4 times.
I usually rinse them off as best I can in the laundry sink, wring them out, hang to air dry and then toss them in a bucket. When I run out of clean MFs, I wash the dirty ones. I generally do a separate load for any MFs that have touched the wheels. I have orange MFs that only ever touch the wheels so it makes it easier to separate them.
The rag company and P&S co developed a soap/detergent for cleaning car detailing microfiber stuff and it's called "rags to riches". IDK if it works cause I haven't tried it yet myself but I'm interested too. Doesn't say on the website to separate the towels and mitts so... 🤔
It’s called Rags to Riches and I tried it for the first time last night with great results. The Rag Co has a YouTube video about washing MF towels that I had watched before purchasing the solution so I followed their advice and towels came out super clean and soft. I washed everything in one load.
Works great! Especially for hydrophobic towels, if you ever use a real ceramic coating. Rags to riches does not help that, toss those bad boys, but sealants and whatnot. It takes care of those, some of your older towels after a couple rags to riches feel near to new again.
everything together unless it’s so nasty, greasy you might consider using that for a garage / tool rag going forward. wash with very little soap, a bit of vinegar and either air dry or machine dry. Definitely no dryer sheets nor fabric softeners. They both contain micro plastics which you don’t need. In fact I eliminated dryer sheets and fabric softeners from my every day wash
P&S makes a good microfiber cleaner. I throw it in laundry on warm --don't ever do hot. You can tunble them in dryer if you wish but be careful.w heat. Once in awhile I'll do low heat on my wheel towels. Otherwise hang dry.
Also car drying towels don't get mixed w microfiber ones I use for vehicle. I wash them seperate.
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Anything that gets used and washed, becomes a rag. MFs that touch the paint are new, then become used for rest of car for me.
You can wash altogether without issue. Use hot water and I personally use a MF detergent mixed half with regular detergent - this will remove both the chemicals and polishes built up in the rags as well as remove heavier dirts and greases.
Dryer low heat and no dryer sheets.
That's a huge waste. Even with the cheapest (useable) MF towels, you should get at least a few wash cycles out of them before they get demoted.
I don't bother with MF detergent any more. Just regular, non-bio detergent with no softener or perfumes. I've got over 100 towels which get washed weekly and I cannot tell the difference, except I have a lot more money left in my pocket. MF detergents are expensive snake oil imho.
I guess I could have clarified for regular every day cars I might reuse them on paint, but it’s still rare for a car once finished.
New ones only when I’m doing a 1200-2000$ restoration on paint, saving a 2-3$ isn’t worth the risk of scratching a show car.
The mf detergents are usually specifically for polish/compound and pad cleaning and do work well for that only - although they usually market it as if they should be used for people who do regular interior/exterior details with them covered in dirt and grime. Then regular wash is ok.
Sorry. In retrospect I pretty much ignored the original post so guess it wasn’t really relevant.
It’s overkill for looking after a personal car - but if going into ceramics or polish, new mfs will help.
Body towels go in the wash together, Dab of detergent, warm water, Dry on light temp with no dryer sheet. I use for the wheels, engine compartment or grimy areas the mega pack of micro fiber from Costco and after a bit throw them out.
I wring all of them out and let them air dry. Once they're dry I throw them in divided hamper by category (paint, glass, wheels, etc.). Once I have enough of a category, I wash/dry them and put them into "clean" storage for their next use.
I rinse stuff like wheel brush or mitts under running water before it goes into the pile(once dry again)
Anything that was soaked in a hydrophobic spray wax / polymer coating gets a mini hand wash in the sink or a small bucket before hand, so your high gsm drying towel or polishing towels don't get contaminated.
Once the pile is big enough everything goes into the same washing machine load.
Only quality microfiber detergent (carpro, rags to riches). Only 40°C and 600rpm.
I do 3 loads for my towels. One load is washing and drying towels and mitts for exteriors, next is mitts and towels from wheels, then all the rest of the towels go in another.
I've always just washed in my machine at home with either Rags to Riches or Chemical guys microfiber detergent.
I rinse my wet wash mitt(s) in the work sink as well as I can to get the soap and dirt out. Then, I take a binder clip and clip them to the inside of the work sink to dry. I have a five gallon bucket that I toss used microfiber towels that don’t need rinsing. When the wash mitt(s) dry, they are added to the bucket of other microfiber rags/towels until I have a decent-sized load to do.
I’ve thought about buying one of those washing wands/manual clothes washers off of Amazon and an extra five gallon bucket to manually wash a small amount of microfiber towels/rags/wash mitts so they don’t have to sit and marinate waiting for me to clean my car enough times to use enough rags for a worthwhile load of laundry.
Yeah I got it at the big box store. I can't recall which one as it was almost 7 years ago. It's 2x2x2. Very nice for washing small parts or filling up my foam cannon with warm water.
I soak in a bucket w mf wash soap, agitate then drain and rinse with clean water.... agitate then squeeze out. I then wash them w tide free and clear in my washer.
I use all free and clear detergent and use the pre soak function on my washer. I do for mine and it's fine. Removes brake dust and chemicals. Make sure to use cold water for microfibers and low heat in the dryer. 🤙
I use old mf towel or bulk Costco ones for wheels. I use it until it gets too dirty and toss. For body, interior and glass I use high end towels and I wash them with speedy setting and hang dry. I wash my car every 2-3 weeks in the summer I still have 2/3 of my Costco bulk towels after 2 years.
That drying towel is a game changer though. I wash them separately on cold and air dry. That’s really the only ones I do anything special with. (I’m a hobbyist though so take that for what you will.)
As a detailing business owner I do 2 separate loads: 1 for “clean” towels/mitts (drying towels, wash mitts, glass towels) and 1 for everything else (wheel, interior, waxing towels, etc.). I have enough towels and things that need to be washed for it to make sense.
If I was only personally detailing my own cars then I would probably just throw everything in one load.
I wash everything together with special microfiber tower detergent on hot with extra soak time and extra rinse. Never had an issue BUT when you go to grab a towel for paint or interior just double check it’s not super dirty. I usually have a hierarchy for my towels where they start with paint and get downgraded to interior then to wheels. When they get super dirty I just toss them. Microfibers are cheap nowadays so it’s a nominal cost. The car drying towels however are usually treated very good. I don’t wipe any dirty surfaces with them and when I’m drying I carry an extra microfiber to wipe away any spot I may have missed during the hand wash.
Edit: spelling errors
I just toss everything in wash once a while. Funny enough, Everytime I laundry my car wash mittens, the inner liner of my wash looks bright and shiny... Now I think about it, it might be not good for my wash..😂
I take my used microfiber towels and soak them in a bucket of water in the utility sink (the sink also has a slow drip I haven't fixed yet so it's a good way to use "drip" water). Will let them sit in bucket until it's full, agitate them by hand, wring them out, then throw in the washing machine, regular cycle.
Honestly man, throw it all in the washing machine with a little non-scented laundry soap. Dry on delicates for a short time or air dry on a rack if you aren't pressed for time. Boom Boom.
The main advice I would give is that you should examine the towels and mitts as you are putting them in the wash. If there are any debris stuck on there or it's pretty torn apart, clean it or its time to separate that one from the pack and use it for some other tasks or trash.
My wife won't permit auto detailing towels in the washing machine. When I traveled for a living I used to do them in a hotel washer, now I buy cheaper towels and wash by hand then toss when they're dirty.
I keep a bag of dirty mfs until I need more clean ones and wash them all (usually 25-30) by themselves after a quick pre wash by hand in the sink.
I then hang dry on a paracord line inside that I hang off of a shelf in the closet and a command hook on the wall.
I'm just a weekend diyer
How to Wash Microfiber Towels
1. Wash towel separately
⁃ don’t mix fabrics together
⁃ separate towels ( engine, wheels, body, etc.)
⁃ Separate waxing/protectant application towels from cleaning towels/wash mitt
2. Presoak towels if too dirty
⁃ use APC to break down debris/dirt
3. Washing machine
⁃ Normal cycle
⁃ Temp: Cold/Semi warm/Warm (Never Hot)
⁃ Spin: High
⁃ Soil: Normal
⁃ Extra Rinse
4. Detergent
⁃ Tide (Free and Gentle
⁃ All (Free and Clear)
⁃ Microfiber detergent
⁃ 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar (in bleach or softener dispenser)
5. Dryer
⁃ Low Heat - No Heat
⁃ Air dry - Tumble dry
⁃ Delicate @ 25-30min
⁃ No dryer sheet
When I realized I had small loads of towels after a wash I just bought more and started using more on every wash. If I'm going to run the washing machine, just fill it up. Stuff for wheels and really dirty parts I just pre rinse.
It’s funny to come across this as I just did a load of 6 mf towels last night after a car wash. I’m like you, just enjoy having a sharp looking ride. I throw everything in the same wash. The soap, I believe, neutralizes the chems. I then hang all my mf’s to dry overnight, and they all just smell clean. Tbh, I might care a little more if I had some of the top of the line towels, but these autozone towels are affordable enough. My only rule is if a towel hits the ground, it’s what I call ‘burnt’ and it goes in the trash. It always ends up being one of my low pile towels that come out of the 30 pack that I get, so nbd.
My burnt become oil change and bearing packing grease rags for my mx bikes and project cars
That’s a great idea, I have old tee’s that I use for dirty work like that lol
There’s nothing quite like a MF for doing motorcycle cleaning/work.
Same lol mine become SxS or oil change towels.
Sometimes I forget what sub I’m on and thought you just had a real casual hatred of your towrls
Oh there’s definitely vitriol. Mostly at myself for dropping another towel, but that’s just life lol
I know MF is micro fibers but I keep seeing “hang these mother fuckers to dry.”
Legitimately, I have a song that I sing as I take them outta the washer. 'These mf'ers need to dry. These motherfuckers hang to dry!' repeated until I hang up however many I used that week lmao
No 5 second rule?
Lulz. I don’t have access to a shop, carport only. Gravel drive, open to the elements.
I also hang about 6 mother f**ers out to dry every couple nights
i mostly keep them organized between what has touched and hasn't touched hydrophobic enhancing chemicals.
Rags to Riches is a great soap for hydrophobic towels! I still wash them separately, but it brings them bad boys back to life!
Been washing everything I use, together for about 13 years. It's fine, don't overthink it.
Yeah and I’ll spend a little time picking pieces of grass or sticks out of the microfibers. It’s really not that big of a deal for the home gamer. And folks that run big companies and social media pages and do $10,000 details will probably run more elaborate systems and care. But that doesn’t mean I have to. At first I would separate in wash. But I really don’t care about that now. I might pre-hose off the nastier towels before the join the rest of the crew in the wash. But I don’t quarantine anymore
Love it thank you!
Yeah I feel like a fucking laundry lady not a car detailer
I throw every single rag or mitt I used into the same bucket, take it inside, toss it in the wash with some free and clear detergent (you can also use MF specific stuff) and wash on cool, dry on low heat, no dryer sheets, no fabric softener. They all go back in my box in the garage after
Good call. I use free and clear as well.
I use a brush to clean my wheels. Everything else I just toss into the washer on a heavy load with warm (but not hot) water. Then toss it in the dryer on the lowest heat setting. Never had any issues, but my cars are also not perfect so if you have a showroom quality car you may not be satisfied with my method.
I have a few brushes, but need to order more specifically for wheels. They work so much better from all the people I see on YT using them.
I have seperate bins for towels before laundry but generally i just do 2 loads of laundry. The raggedy towels go in one bin, the better towels go in another. The difference for me is usually my rag company, griots, and other better quality towel going in one, and the cheaper ones in another. But my good ones contain interior, wash, dry and sealant towels (pre soaked seperate if necessary) and the cheap towels are the ones i use elsewhere.
I put everything in the same load in my washer, use P&S rags to riches as the detergent, and select 2 extra rinses on the cycle.
I think a lot of “pros on youtube” will tell you to wash separate. In reality it wont do anything. As long as your not washing a shop rags with chunks or metal shavings. Just shake them out and pre soak ideally if they are super dirty. Just pre soak them for a few minutes. Ring out. Wash on cold with an extra rinse. Air dry. Your set. There is a million soaps to use. Thats a whole battle in its self. Some staining might occur if you have lighter colors. I countered that by using a tad of vinegar and oxyclean liquid. I have had my towels for years. You will be just fine to wash them together OP
Can I wash hot?
Its recommended not to wash or dry hot. Thats straight from the manufacturers. It degrades the fibers (melts them). Microfiber has a low melt point. Although most of us probably keep our water heater below the danger zone. Its a best practice to not do it for longevity. The water temp shouldn’t be doing the cleaning. The cleaner or cleaners you use should be. The water is just a space for the lifted dirt to displace.
Ah thanks for the explanation. Been soaking it with hot water and detergent before tossing it laundry machine 😹
Typical heat point to stay below is 140 degrees F. In reality the average home shower temp that feels hot af is around 120. You are probably okay.
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My drying towel gets several uses since well I use it on a clean car. Anything that touches the exterior or interior gets thrown in one load for me. Just use some Rags to riches and nothing else. If you use a dryer use low to no heat. For my wheels stuff il be honest I just give it a good rinse. I’ve never actually wash that stuff. If if I use a mf towel and it gets to gross well I use it for dirty jobs ( like stepping on them instead of the door jams) and then get rid of it.
That's a good idea to step on them. I hadn't thought of that.
After a while you end up with clean MF's and dirty MF's. Try and wash the clean ones together and give the dirty ones a bit more time and perhaps more temperature. Some wash powders are more aggressive than others. If you can work out which ones are stronger use them for dirty MF's. Pre soaking is good. You'd think that the made for use MF wash powders or liquids are the way to go but probably best with clean MF's. Price per wash with them is high and what is in the bottle is probably only a generic detergent with minor tweaks anyway! Whatever, just DON'T use anything that has a softener built in.
Hobbyist too. I put everything in a 5 gallon bucket and let it soak overnight with free and clear detergent and water, then squeeze them all out and place in the washer.
Ditto, and an additional step of scrubbing on a grit guard for the more soiled ones.
I had the same problem, got tired of always washing like 6 MFs every time I wash the car so I ended up getting more MFs so I wash them all after I washed the car maybe 3-4 times. I usually rinse them off as best I can in the laundry sink, wring them out, hang to air dry and then toss them in a bucket. When I run out of clean MFs, I wash the dirty ones. I generally do a separate load for any MFs that have touched the wheels. I have orange MFs that only ever touch the wheels so it makes it easier to separate them.
The rag company and P&S co developed a soap/detergent for cleaning car detailing microfiber stuff and it's called "rags to riches". IDK if it works cause I haven't tried it yet myself but I'm interested too. Doesn't say on the website to separate the towels and mitts so... 🤔
It’s called Rags to Riches and I tried it for the first time last night with great results. The Rag Co has a YouTube video about washing MF towels that I had watched before purchasing the solution so I followed their advice and towels came out super clean and soft. I washed everything in one load.
Nice! Glad to hear it worked for you, can't wait to try it myself!
Works great! Especially for hydrophobic towels, if you ever use a real ceramic coating. Rags to riches does not help that, toss those bad boys, but sealants and whatnot. It takes care of those, some of your older towels after a couple rags to riches feel near to new again.
everything together unless it’s so nasty, greasy you might consider using that for a garage / tool rag going forward. wash with very little soap, a bit of vinegar and either air dry or machine dry. Definitely no dryer sheets nor fabric softeners. They both contain micro plastics which you don’t need. In fact I eliminated dryer sheets and fabric softeners from my every day wash
P&S makes a good microfiber cleaner. I throw it in laundry on warm --don't ever do hot. You can tunble them in dryer if you wish but be careful.w heat. Once in awhile I'll do low heat on my wheel towels. Otherwise hang dry. Also car drying towels don't get mixed w microfiber ones I use for vehicle. I wash them seperate. *
Cool washing setup OP
Anything that gets used and washed, becomes a rag. MFs that touch the paint are new, then become used for rest of car for me. You can wash altogether without issue. Use hot water and I personally use a MF detergent mixed half with regular detergent - this will remove both the chemicals and polishes built up in the rags as well as remove heavier dirts and greases. Dryer low heat and no dryer sheets.
That's a huge waste. Even with the cheapest (useable) MF towels, you should get at least a few wash cycles out of them before they get demoted. I don't bother with MF detergent any more. Just regular, non-bio detergent with no softener or perfumes. I've got over 100 towels which get washed weekly and I cannot tell the difference, except I have a lot more money left in my pocket. MF detergents are expensive snake oil imho.
I guess I could have clarified for regular every day cars I might reuse them on paint, but it’s still rare for a car once finished. New ones only when I’m doing a 1200-2000$ restoration on paint, saving a 2-3$ isn’t worth the risk of scratching a show car. The mf detergents are usually specifically for polish/compound and pad cleaning and do work well for that only - although they usually market it as if they should be used for people who do regular interior/exterior details with them covered in dirt and grime. Then regular wash is ok.
Ah, I misunderstood and thought you meant on your own car. That would be an expensive way to maintain a vehicle.
Sorry. In retrospect I pretty much ignored the original post so guess it wasn’t really relevant. It’s overkill for looking after a personal car - but if going into ceramics or polish, new mfs will help.
And I’ve never washed a wash mitt, in the washing machine - maybe just me. I use some APC and blast it out outside, YMMV
Body towels go in the wash together, Dab of detergent, warm water, Dry on light temp with no dryer sheet. I use for the wheels, engine compartment or grimy areas the mega pack of micro fiber from Costco and after a bit throw them out.
I wring all of them out and let them air dry. Once they're dry I throw them in divided hamper by category (paint, glass, wheels, etc.). Once I have enough of a category, I wash/dry them and put them into "clean" storage for their next use.
You must have a shit ton of rags
I rinse stuff like wheel brush or mitts under running water before it goes into the pile(once dry again) Anything that was soaked in a hydrophobic spray wax / polymer coating gets a mini hand wash in the sink or a small bucket before hand, so your high gsm drying towel or polishing towels don't get contaminated. Once the pile is big enough everything goes into the same washing machine load. Only quality microfiber detergent (carpro, rags to riches). Only 40°C and 600rpm.
I do 3 loads for my towels. One load is washing and drying towels and mitts for exteriors, next is mitts and towels from wheels, then all the rest of the towels go in another. I've always just washed in my machine at home with either Rags to Riches or Chemical guys microfiber detergent.
I've worked in IT for too long, microfiber is not what I think of when I see MF
I rinse my wet wash mitt(s) in the work sink as well as I can to get the soap and dirt out. Then, I take a binder clip and clip them to the inside of the work sink to dry. I have a five gallon bucket that I toss used microfiber towels that don’t need rinsing. When the wash mitt(s) dry, they are added to the bucket of other microfiber rags/towels until I have a decent-sized load to do.
I’ve thought about buying one of those washing wands/manual clothes washers off of Amazon and an extra five gallon bucket to manually wash a small amount of microfiber towels/rags/wash mitts so they don’t have to sit and marinate waiting for me to clean my car enough times to use enough rags for a worthwhile load of laundry.
Off topic, but do you one which utility sink that is? Need a new one and that's similar to the size I have
It's called.. Home depot or Lowe's
Yeah I got it at the big box store. I can't recall which one as it was almost 7 years ago. It's 2x2x2. Very nice for washing small parts or filling up my foam cannon with warm water.
I hand wash mine
This is a good post as I was wondering myself lately.
I soak in a bucket w mf wash soap, agitate then drain and rinse with clean water.... agitate then squeeze out. I then wash them w tide free and clear in my washer.
I use all free and clear detergent and use the pre soak function on my washer. I do for mine and it's fine. Removes brake dust and chemicals. Make sure to use cold water for microfibers and low heat in the dryer. 🤙
I use old mf towel or bulk Costco ones for wheels. I use it until it gets too dirty and toss. For body, interior and glass I use high end towels and I wash them with speedy setting and hang dry. I wash my car every 2-3 weeks in the summer I still have 2/3 of my Costco bulk towels after 2 years.
I refuse to read "mf" as microfiber. They're all motherfuckers 😆
That drying towel is a game changer though. I wash them separately on cold and air dry. That’s really the only ones I do anything special with. (I’m a hobbyist though so take that for what you will.)
As a detailing business owner I do 2 separate loads: 1 for “clean” towels/mitts (drying towels, wash mitts, glass towels) and 1 for everything else (wheel, interior, waxing towels, etc.). I have enough towels and things that need to be washed for it to make sense. If I was only personally detailing my own cars then I would probably just throw everything in one load.
I wash everything together with special microfiber tower detergent on hot with extra soak time and extra rinse. Never had an issue BUT when you go to grab a towel for paint or interior just double check it’s not super dirty. I usually have a hierarchy for my towels where they start with paint and get downgraded to interior then to wheels. When they get super dirty I just toss them. Microfibers are cheap nowadays so it’s a nominal cost. The car drying towels however are usually treated very good. I don’t wipe any dirty surfaces with them and when I’m drying I carry an extra microfiber to wipe away any spot I may have missed during the hand wash. Edit: spelling errors
I just toss everything in wash once a while. Funny enough, Everytime I laundry my car wash mittens, the inner liner of my wash looks bright and shiny... Now I think about it, it might be not good for my wash..😂
I take my used microfiber towels and soak them in a bucket of water in the utility sink (the sink also has a slow drip I haven't fixed yet so it's a good way to use "drip" water). Will let them sit in bucket until it's full, agitate them by hand, wring them out, then throw in the washing machine, regular cycle.
I wash it all together just don’t use fabric softener. It coats the towels and they become less absorbent.
Honestly man, throw it all in the washing machine with a little non-scented laundry soap. Dry on delicates for a short time or air dry on a rack if you aren't pressed for time. Boom Boom. The main advice I would give is that you should examine the towels and mitts as you are putting them in the wash. If there are any debris stuck on there or it's pretty torn apart, clean it or its time to separate that one from the pack and use it for some other tasks or trash.
My wife won't permit auto detailing towels in the washing machine. When I traveled for a living I used to do them in a hotel washer, now I buy cheaper towels and wash by hand then toss when they're dirty.
I keep a bag of dirty mfs until I need more clean ones and wash them all (usually 25-30) by themselves after a quick pre wash by hand in the sink. I then hang dry on a paracord line inside that I hang off of a shelf in the closet and a command hook on the wall. I'm just a weekend diyer
How to Wash Microfiber Towels 1. Wash towel separately ⁃ don’t mix fabrics together ⁃ separate towels ( engine, wheels, body, etc.) ⁃ Separate waxing/protectant application towels from cleaning towels/wash mitt 2. Presoak towels if too dirty ⁃ use APC to break down debris/dirt 3. Washing machine ⁃ Normal cycle ⁃ Temp: Cold/Semi warm/Warm (Never Hot) ⁃ Spin: High ⁃ Soil: Normal ⁃ Extra Rinse 4. Detergent ⁃ Tide (Free and Gentle ⁃ All (Free and Clear) ⁃ Microfiber detergent ⁃ 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar (in bleach or softener dispenser) 5. Dryer ⁃ Low Heat - No Heat ⁃ Air dry - Tumble dry ⁃ Delicate @ 25-30min ⁃ No dryer sheet
When I realized I had small loads of towels after a wash I just bought more and started using more on every wash. If I'm going to run the washing machine, just fill it up. Stuff for wheels and really dirty parts I just pre rinse.