You have some strong muscles then, being able to take off the 5 badge from just a microfiber. It took me a blow dryer and fishing line to take off those badges.

The scratch your talking about is definitelly not from any towel, thats not just a simpe swirl mark its dug deep into your paint all the way to your primer. it was most likely cause by something else, but for sure not the mit.

 

You know I think people are just skimming when they read.






I didn't pull the badge off with my fingers or my hand. The mitt is mad up of a bunch of loops. As you are washing the loops catch on the corners of the car. They also catch underneath the badges. So as you are washing over the back end of the car and over the badges one or more loops. I've caught these loops on the badges and pulled them out.

Check out the pics.......

 

I use something similar and never had problems with it. I actually use it with Pledge on the body and wheels. Oh yeah... dealers have been using wood furniture polish such as pledge for years to keep that showroom shine. I've been using it for 5 years now, 4.75 years my old Lex and few months on my G. No problems at all.

 

I have been washing by hand for a year and a half. No scrateches, no missing letters. Get a new mit.

 

Easy fix... use a different brand of mitts.

 

Save the mitts and use them on the rims. Just remember not to use it for anything else.

 

Exactly. Those mitts will be great for rims.

 

I wonder if you could have drug that "5" around on the finish before you noticed it was stuck to the mit.

And yes, that mit sucks, as you've found. Now for my infamous repsonse:

Use only 100% USA Grown Cotton and MADE-IN-THE-USA towels. Both are essential. Stay away from anything made anywhere else and don't even look at Egyptian Cotton or it will F your finish up. Still not a single scratch from my good towels to date. I use Wamsutta, but check the tags as they also offer Egyptian Cotton. You'll feel the difference right off the shelf. Cut off the embroidered ends, etc.

Unfortunately, you have a lot of work to get those scratches and swirls out before you'll ever notice that the good towels aren't putting any scratches into the finish. If you had used good towels from the start, you would already swear by them after seeing no scratches/swirls develop. But you do have to keep them clean of debris, just like any other towel.

 

haha damn