Towels for grungy applications

[LT1xL82]

What towels are a good choice for applications not worthy of the nicer Adam's Polish towels? For example, cleaning wheels, engine compartments and door frames that have been neglected for some time, etc. 

 

Is it wise to buy Cheap Charlie's Cleaning Rags and either wash, or even trash them? Or is using a much more expensive towel such as Adam's Edgeless Utility towel for maybe 5X the price a better long term approach?

 

In other words, is a towel costing perhaps 5x the price worth the premium when used for grungy applications? Either in performance or longevity? The price difference may not break any of us, but I'd rather not be wasteful.

[Team Adam's]

The cheapest towels you'll find will be the ones sold in the bulk pack at the warehouse stores - the issue is that after the first use and subsequent washing they'll usually curl up, stick to themselves, and be a real pain to use again due to the low quality materials.

 

Something like our edgeless utility towel will never do that, as a matter of fact other than getting discolored and stained they'll last you a REALLY long time.

 

So it really comes down to what you'd prefer - you can buy our edgeless utility towel and get a great quality towel that you'll have for awhile, or you can buy the bulk ones cheap and just toss them after 1 or 2 uses requiring you to buy more. At one point the cheap scenario ends up catching the other in overall cost.

[Team Adam's]

And thats not to say I don't do a little of both... we keep a bag of 'throw away' towels as well as a large supply of our utility towels on hand. You never can have too many options.

[CMDChase]

I have some cheapies around but rarely use them. My Adams utility towels, although stained, work better and last longer. I'm still using the ones from the first set I bought at least 5 years ago. Quality trumps price.

[Kingsford]

I've began to use my really really old Waterless Wash Waffle Weave towels for wheels and what not. They still tend to be more absorbent than the utility towel but I also use the utility towels for exterior trim and interior cleaning.

[69supersport396]

I am slowly replacing my cheap towels with worn out Adam's microfibers towels.  Takes a long time for Adam's towels to become totally useless.  

[LT1xL82]

Thank you for the informative replies! The posts and PMs are much appreciated. The sharing of experience is a great benefit of these forums.

[j-r35]

edgeless for me.