Hello everyone,
I'm imagining this may not be the most popular review/opinion/comment on the site, but here goes.
I own many of the AG cobra towels, and have seen mostly improvements on there brand of towels in the past. The majority of the time, the towels are reliable and worth the purchase.
When the towels were originally released, I bought 6 of them, and have gotten a lot of use out of them. The original 6 pack I purchased were good safe towels, that were exactly as described on the website add. Good quality weave, with true seamless edge's. The towels were constructed of high quality and there edge's were stratchless.
Cobra Indigo Microfiber Polishing Cloth
So a few weeks ago I made another order for 12 towels, costing 80.00 dollars. When I got the towels, I inspected them like I normally would, and was immediately very disappointed.
IMO, the quality and craftsmanship of these towels has taken a giant plunge like no other product I have seen Autogeek stamp there name on. And for mainly 2 manufacturing reasons. Which go against the entire reason a towel like this was designed.
reason #1 - The edge's of the towels are now HOT WIRE CUT !!! Meaning they are cut with a hot band that slices through the towel in the process melting the fibers that it comes in contact with. turning them into extremely hard melted bands of plastic like substance. If you dont know what hot wire cutting is, here is a statement i found when i googled it in relation to microfiber towels. The bottom line is that the edge's of the towels scratch badly. They scratched and gouged the CD test worse than any other towel edge I have ever tested.
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Hot wire cuts: Towels produced in bulk are typically hot wire cut by the thousands leading to hard scratchy edges. The materials that compose a microfiber are man-made and melt at high heat, so by utilizing hot wire cutting these edges are melted into solid hard plastic like pieces. The melting and heat can impact the towels as far as a 1/4" or more into the face of the towel leaving you with very scratchy fibers.
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reason #2 - Which is related to reason #1, because of the (what I consider cheap) manufacturing process of hot wire cutting, the towels are not even true and square in shape. each of the 12 towels are cut and shaped differently and slightly different in size. the edge's are even wavy and jagged because it looks as if they were not cut with any care.
And thats it. Because of this, I decided not to use the towels anywhere near my new car. Not even for interior or wheel use (i have delicate, painted and clear coated wheels). I actually gave the 12 towels to my mom to use in the kitchen.
I know microfiber towels pretty well imo. as I buy lots of them from all different brands. Obviously, I have found towels in the past which I considered not worthy that I tossed aside. But i'm surprised that I had this experience with Autogeek.
I really like spending my money with Autogeek and will continue to do so. I have a new car waiting to arrive mid January and with a lot of my bonus money I made this year, I decided to buy all new car care products, and in the past couple month's I bought quite a bit here. I didnt make this thread with the intent to receive new products or to return the item's. Even if I was offered something like this I would refuse.
Happy new year everyone
I'm imagining this may not be the most popular review/opinion/comment on the site, but here goes.
I own many of the AG cobra towels, and have seen mostly improvements on there brand of towels in the past. The majority of the time, the towels are reliable and worth the purchase.
When the towels were originally released, I bought 6 of them, and have gotten a lot of use out of them. The original 6 pack I purchased were good safe towels, that were exactly as described on the website add. Good quality weave, with true seamless edge's. The towels were constructed of high quality and there edge's were stratchless.
Cobra Indigo Microfiber Polishing Cloth
So a few weeks ago I made another order for 12 towels, costing 80.00 dollars. When I got the towels, I inspected them like I normally would, and was immediately very disappointed.
IMO, the quality and craftsmanship of these towels has taken a giant plunge like no other product I have seen Autogeek stamp there name on. And for mainly 2 manufacturing reasons. Which go against the entire reason a towel like this was designed.
reason #1 - The edge's of the towels are now HOT WIRE CUT !!! Meaning they are cut with a hot band that slices through the towel in the process melting the fibers that it comes in contact with. turning them into extremely hard melted bands of plastic like substance. If you dont know what hot wire cutting is, here is a statement i found when i googled it in relation to microfiber towels. The bottom line is that the edge's of the towels scratch badly. They scratched and gouged the CD test worse than any other towel edge I have ever tested.
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Hot wire cuts: Towels produced in bulk are typically hot wire cut by the thousands leading to hard scratchy edges. The materials that compose a microfiber are man-made and melt at high heat, so by utilizing hot wire cutting these edges are melted into solid hard plastic like pieces. The melting and heat can impact the towels as far as a 1/4" or more into the face of the towel leaving you with very scratchy fibers.
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reason #2 - Which is related to reason #1, because of the (what I consider cheap) manufacturing process of hot wire cutting, the towels are not even true and square in shape. each of the 12 towels are cut and shaped differently and slightly different in size. the edge's are even wavy and jagged because it looks as if they were not cut with any care.
And thats it. Because of this, I decided not to use the towels anywhere near my new car. Not even for interior or wheel use (i have delicate, painted and clear coated wheels). I actually gave the 12 towels to my mom to use in the kitchen.
I know microfiber towels pretty well imo. as I buy lots of them from all different brands. Obviously, I have found towels in the past which I considered not worthy that I tossed aside. But i'm surprised that I had this experience with Autogeek.
I really like spending my money with Autogeek and will continue to do so. I have a new car waiting to arrive mid January and with a lot of my bonus money I made this year, I decided to buy all new car care products, and in the past couple month's I bought quite a bit here. I didnt make this thread with the intent to receive new products or to return the item's. Even if I was offered something like this I would refuse.
Happy new year everyone
