Waterless Wash: How many towels do you go through?

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I can go through 15 microfiber towels (16x16) during a Waterless wash. Add three more if I follow up with a QD.

Does this seem excessive? :thinking My goal is to never use the same surface of the towel twice. Further, where the car has visible dirt, I will roll the towel as I clean and thus constantly keep a "new" section of towel exposed to the paint. The eats up the towels quick!
 
WaxAddict said:
I can go through 15 microfiber towels (16x16) during a Waterless wash. Add three more if I follow up with a QD.

Does this seem excessive? :thinking My goal is to never use the same surface of the towel twice. Further, where the car has visible dirt, I will roll the towel as I clean and thus constantly keep a "new" section of towel exposed to the paint. The eats up the towels quick!
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Depends on the size of the vehicle and how dirty it is..With me I can do my car a grange queen with for to six towels, turning them frequently. QD is two at most, the cars clean at that point
 
I'm with Beemer Boy! Depends heavily on the size of the vehicle (and my personal vehicles go from a Fiat 500 to a Dodge Ram pickup). A light job on the Fiat would go 4-6. On the truck? 10-12.
 
Looks like I'm not alone. My car is a coupe. Like the saying goes: it's easier to do laundry than correct paint. I count 11 panels on my car so at the minimum on a mostly clean car, I'd use 11, but usually it's more.
 
It really depends how dirty the car is. My method is to always pressure wash a car before doing a rinseless wash. I don't see why I would wipe off any dirt I could rinse off.

Yes it takes more time, wastes water, and defeats the purpose...blah..blah...blah...

But, after that it takes me 3 or 4 towels to do a GDWM to the whole car. Now, guys that are using 15 towels... If each towel has 8 sides - that means your using 120 sides?????

I use all 8 sides....but I spray the panel down with waterless so it's plenty wet with wash even on side 8. This works for me. My cars have no marring.
 
I have a small vert, use about 8 towels. Then I use more towels for door jambs, etc. I'm doing a load of laundry either way, so I might as well not spare the towels.
 
chet31 said:
I have a small vert, use about 8 towels. Then I use more towels for door jambs, etc. I'm doing a load of laundry either way, so I might as well not spare the towels.
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Well said! Use 'em if ya got 'em.

I think I would use many less towels if I used all edgeless. I am so anal about tucking in the edges that I don't get a full 8 sides of use.
 
This was interesting read.

I did a hybrid 2 bucket wash mixed with GDWM and Optimum NR. Took a damn long time, as the car was pretty filthy, hence the 2 bucket part of it.

I used about 4 gal of distilled water, two wash mitts, and roughly 4-5 MF towels (with 2 waffle weaves to dry).

Results were great. But I wouldn't want to do that again. I'll stick to GDWM on a less soiled car in the future!

Oh, and this was for a 2014 Kia Sorento.





 
This is why i never do waterless, just my opin, but i also think it microscratches long term and uses too much product. I use a garry dean rinseless technique, duragloss rinseless and 5-6 towels. Easy peasy....
 
Old habits die hard...........

I use 2 PB dreadlock wash mitts for rinseless

Never had a problem

I find myself doing less and less waterless washes except at car shows. Then I just grab a ton of micro, and whatever I use, I use. I don't count em
 
Ronkh said:
try PB dmt, they have silk borders so no worries
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Yeah that's my favorite, but I've been getting a few DI Edgeless towels lately and they're great and priced right. I've said before that PB needs an Edgeless towel in their lineup.
 
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