How do you stop your MF from linting?

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Ive purchased about 40 Cobra MF towels from autogeek and just about every single one seems to be linting (all between 6-3 months old). THere are a couple blue ones that dont shed on the car. Never been washed with softener or regular detergent, and always on cold/cold setting and air dried.

Its just annoying that all of them seem to be shedding, no matter the color or method of drying/washing.

So how are you guys preventing the shedding on the cars? I would hate to stop detailing because I can't afford new MF towels for every detail job :/
 
Try washing them in hot water with MF approved detergent and dry them on uber low heat. I have a bunch of AG MF towels and none of them lint.
 
Rydis said:
Ive purchased about 40 Cobra MF towels from autogeek and just about every single one seems to be linting (all between 6-3 months old). THere are a couple blue ones that dont shed on the car. Never been washed with softener or regular detergent, and always on cold/cold setting and air dried.

Its just annoying that all of them seem to be shedding, no matter the color or method of drying/washing.

So how are you guys preventing the shedding on the cars? I would hate to stop detailing because I can't afford new MF towels for every detail job :/
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unfort it only takes one bad towel in a wash load to pollute all of them, in terms of linting. one or two towels might be defective and polluted your others.

i do not believe that all of your towels are genuinely shedding, especially if you bought them at different times. i could see it happening if you bought them all at once and there might have been a defective batch (i had a defective group of cobra cloths (indigo) back in the day, what a mess). but since you've gotten yours at different times that pretty much eliminates that.

for what it's worth, you'll see plenty of info on here regarding using hot water to wash their towels. people even boil them. water isn't going to hurt them, no matter how hot. i use hot wash cycle and dual hot rinses. hot water on a molecular level is very wild with a lot of action - it will help clean the towels better.

if i were in your situation, i'd try to wash about 8-10 at a time using my micro cleanse solution. i'd let them soak in the HOT agitated water for a while. then i'd let the dual hot rinses take place. this might help remove the lint. i might even try it twice. that is a bit wasteful but at least you'd know if you removed any lint.
 
I do a wash with hot water and two cold rinses. Then dry with medium heat in the dryer. The dryer may remove the lint plus I think air drying makes them stiff.
 
I was reading that the dyer heat could melt them. I did dry them once with no heat..but it didn't have a different effect.
 
Rydis said:
I was reading that the dyer heat could melt them. I did dry them once with no heat..but it didn't have a different effect.
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I air dry my MF's until they are ALMOST dry then put them in the dryer on low to take out any lint.When I clean the dryer lint trap,there's white lint.:xyxthumbs:
 
Rydis said:
I was reading that the dyer heat could melt them. I did dry them once with no heat..but it didn't have a different effect.
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I believe that is incorrect information. My dryer runs very hot and I have never had any issue with that. I would think that boiling water would be hotter than the heat of the dryer too. Just my 2 cents there though.

One thing that I do is before placing them in the dryer, I will clean the lint trap and then run the dryer empty for 10 minutes to allow all the remaining lint from the last load of clothes to be cycled through the lint trap.

I wash my towels in hot water and use Super Clean for the wash. I get the 2.5 gallon container from Walmart. I do a full load at a time and run an entire express wash with just vinegar. From the same load My DMTs from Poorboy's do not lint, my Cobra towels do not lint but my cheaper towels do lint. It leads me to believe that it is an issue with the towels and not so much with the wash.
 
I run all my MFs through the wash warm/cold normal/gentle with DP cleaner. I run an extra spin cycle then throw them in the dryer Medium. They all go through as batches as to function, IE polishing 1 load, product application 1 load, glass, etc. When I check the lint guard in the dryer I don't see any linting and some of my MFs are over a year old.
 
I do the hot wash with micro restore like everyone else. Then I toss them in the dry on low heat with some dryer balls. It helps give them a bit of a static charge. It makes for a noisy time but seems to help in my opinion.
 
bige441 said:
I do the hot wash with micro restore like everyone else. Then I toss them in the dry on low heat with some dryer balls. It helps give them a bit of a static charge. It makes for a noisy time but seems to help in my opinion.
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I don't think my MFs need any extra static charge. When I go over plastic panels I get shocks :eek:
 
at the laundrymat, i use tide HE on the hottest cycle. i follow that by throwing them in the dryer on low for 35/40 min. all my dirty towels go together,all different type's from different manufacturer's and no lint.
 
I can only offer what works for me personally and never found any appreciable lint even from the Shamrocks.

I keep my MF's away from all other laundry even cotton towels used in car care. I wash them in MF detergent and use 1/2 cup of white vinegar in rinse. (keeps them soft and seem cleaner). I then toss them in the dryer and tumble dry with light heat and dryer balls. I (well my wife) removes lint in dryer prior to use and after there is always a small ball of it. I then store in sealed cupboard or those plastic under the bed type boxes.
 
well I dont know if linting was the right word. I would say shedding. Just leaving little MF threads all over when you wipe with it (even dry). It its usually the color of the towel itself (green, yellow..haven't had the problem with blue yet).

But I just placed a order for some MF detergent and see if it helps at all..and some other stuff because had to take advantage of the deal haha.
 
Rydis said:
I was reading that the dyer heat could melt them. I did dry them once with no heat..but it didn't have a different effect.
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I agree . I use dryer on warm too. I wash in warm in a front loader and add white vinegar instead of fabric softener. I havent had problems even with Shamrocks. My water is soft and I use Pinnacle MF detergent. I think water is a big variable.
 
Rydis said:
Ive purchased about 40 Cobra MF towels from autogeek and just about every single one seems to be linting (all between 6-3 months old). THere are a couple blue ones that dont shed on the car. Never been washed with softener or regular detergent, and always on cold/cold setting and air dried.

Its just annoying that all of them seem to be shedding, no matter the color or method of drying/washing.

So how are you guys preventing the shedding on the cars? I would hate to stop detailing because I can't afford new MF towels for every detail job :/
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even on BOGO, i passed on purchasing any as i've experienced linting with them as well...
 
BigAl3 said:
even on BOGO, i passed on purchasing any as i've experienced linting with them as well...
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....same here. It's unfortunate because I have Cobra towels that a couple of years old and still perform quite well. Ever since my experience with the Shamrocks (later version) and the plush side of the Supreme 530's, I stopped buying them and have been on the hunt for other sources. Even the teal colored towels that were once my favorites seem to have a lint problem. ....which I unfortunately discovered this past weekend at a car show. I had taken my 2 dozen or so seasoned teal's and washed them with 3 new ones I had from other orders I placed with AG. I'm guessing one or all 3 simply contaminated the rest.

I still buy about 90% of my detailing supplies from AG but I won't be buying anymore MF's. The shedding is so bad on the Sham's I bought, that they are practically worthless to me. ....the 530's are less so but still can't be used on paint without leaving fibers behind.
 
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