What is the best microfiber towel for a ceramic coating job? Somebody on YouTube mentioned a short-nap MF cloth is best. Looking for a good MF, good price, and seller. I normally use the thicker ones (all purpose) for waxing, and everything car related.
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I’m planning on using some cheap Costco ones for the ceramic coating on my friend’s car. I am concerned that the coating might damage some of my expensive super thick/plush microfiber towels. His car is new so I just plan to claybar the car, and then coat it.
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I'm doing my daily first, as a test subject, then the RS. I only use new MFs to polish and wax, then they are demoted to regular cleaning cloths. The Sam's Club MFs are perfect for regular detailing, but I'm not sure if the thicker ones are ok for ceramic. Maybe they are, right?
Dynamic detailing in Santa Clara CA installed ceramic pro 9h on my NB. To learn proper detailing from scratch is way outside the scope of this forum's knowledge unfortunately (seeing how many people go to hand wash places 
). To wash my coated car I use similar ones to these https://www.amazon.com/RAG-COMPANY-Professional-Microfiber-Detailing/dp/B00GXRG64I. Things like wax will not stick to a coated car and smear or streak.
My wash steps:
Fill 1 clean bucket a grit guard, water and megs gold or other soap
fill another 5gal bucket with clean water and a grit guard.
Setup my power washer
Spray wheel cleaner like BDX on wheels and exhaust tips (I use mostly 3d detailing products out of convenience)
Let sit 1-3m (dont let this dry on, it stained my old DIY painted wheels)
Spray bug remover as needed
Power wash car top to bottom attempting to push dirt off
Use foam cannon and spray car
Wash car, flipping towels into many squares. I never use the same section of a towel twice unless its spotless.
Work in airflow direction, 1 panel at a time, top to bottom. (I do least dirty to most dirty: roof, hood, roof side panels, quarter panels, doors, hatch, bumpers)
What I do is lightly wipe the dirt off, then when the entire panel is clean I take a fresh section of the towel and scrub lightly if to get missed stuff.
Clean wheels with wheels only Costco yellow MFs
Clean tips
Clean glass
Power rinse car
Dry car using blow dryer or drying towel sprayed with quick detailer (never dry a car with a towel without a lubricant)
Personally I recommend watching every one of Larry Kosilla's videos (AMMO NYC) to begin to get an understanding. I also like /r/autodetailing.
Hot tips:
keep entirely separate towels, buckets, etc for the wheels.
If you drop a towel in the dirt unless you can pick it all out throw it away.
You can always use more towels, you can never swirl less (without paint correction)
). To wash my coated car I use similar ones to these https://www.amazon.com/RAG-COMPANY-Professional-Microfiber-Detailing/dp/B00GXRG64I. Things like wax will not stick to a coated car and smear or streak. My wash steps:
Fill 1 clean bucket a grit guard, water and megs gold or other soap
fill another 5gal bucket with clean water and a grit guard.
Setup my power washer
Spray wheel cleaner like BDX on wheels and exhaust tips (I use mostly 3d detailing products out of convenience)
Let sit 1-3m (dont let this dry on, it stained my old DIY painted wheels)
Spray bug remover as needed
Power wash car top to bottom attempting to push dirt off
Use foam cannon and spray car
Wash car, flipping towels into many squares. I never use the same section of a towel twice unless its spotless.
Work in airflow direction, 1 panel at a time, top to bottom. (I do least dirty to most dirty: roof, hood, roof side panels, quarter panels, doors, hatch, bumpers)
What I do is lightly wipe the dirt off, then when the entire panel is clean I take a fresh section of the towel and scrub lightly if to get missed stuff.
Clean wheels with wheels only Costco yellow MFs
Clean tips
Clean glass
Power rinse car
Dry car using blow dryer or drying towel sprayed with quick detailer (never dry a car with a towel without a lubricant)
Personally I recommend watching every one of Larry Kosilla's videos (AMMO NYC) to begin to get an understanding. I also like /r/autodetailing.
Hot tips:
keep entirely separate towels, buckets, etc for the wheels.
If you drop a towel in the dirt unless you can pick it all out throw it away.
You can always use more towels, you can never swirl less (without paint correction)
I use the Cyclone mitt for washing, Pluffle for detail spray application and Eagle Edgeless for light buffing after detail spray. I only use my Air Force Commander to dry the car. I don't use the two bucket method all that often because I rinse, foam cannon, rinse, foam cannon/mitt, rinse, and dry.
Read what that manufacturer recommends.
I put cQuartz UK on my car, it was very easy to apply BUT THE said to use SUEDE MF, and they get tossed after applications. Reason being the Ceramic dries so you don't want to reuse a rag that has small glass particles stuck on it.
There are a ton of videos out there.
I washed with dish soap to remove wax, Clay Bar the whole thing, paint correction where necessary.
They wiped down with Eraser on each panel prior to the install, hardest part for me was get the > 70 Temp < 50% humidity
I put cQuartz UK on my car, it was very easy to apply BUT THE said to use SUEDE MF, and they get tossed after applications. Reason being the Ceramic dries so you don't want to reuse a rag that has small glass particles stuck on it.
There are a ton of videos out there.
I washed with dish soap to remove wax, Clay Bar the whole thing, paint correction where necessary.
They wiped down with Eraser on each panel prior to the install, hardest part for me was get the > 70 Temp < 50% humidity
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