To revive this thread, The Rag Company is awesome! I placed an order on the 14th and received my package on the 16th!

The Eagle Edgeless are crazy plush and soft, the Dry Me a River are soft with deep waffles, and the Chameleon Waterless Wash Towels are really plush also.

I got
20x40 Dry Me a River Jr. (Green, Blue, L Blue)
14x14 Eagle Edgeless Blue
16X16 Chameleon Waterless Wash (Green/Black, D Blue/L Blue)

They also threw in these for free (the three far left in the pic)
16x16 Creature Edgless Plush Dual Micro Towel (420gsm, 80/20)
16x16 Standard Green Micro Glass/Window Towel (350gsm, 80/20)
6x7 Grey Micro Knit Lense Cloth (100% Korean micro/silk)

I am interested in seing how the Chameleon towels do with ONR wash. They are 840gsm, but only 80/20 so they should be good for wash:tup:

Welcome to the party. Better late than never! :D

I have only used muted and non colored micro and waffles, so not sure if these bright colors will bleed into each other the first wash. I would wash the blues and greens with each other using Tide Free on warm/hot, vinegar in rinse cycle, and tumble dry with no heat. Would you think it is safe to wash the micro rags with the micro waffles blue and green together?

I don't think my Rag Company towels bled much. All my previous cheap quality towels did. I even ran some on hot cycle three times before ever using them and they still bled when I washed them with other towels.

If you don't care about bleeding, you can wash them all together. If you do care, wash the dark blue ones and check the water color several times during the wash and rinse cycles. Or toss in a white microfiber if you have one that you don't care gets some color on it. That should give you an idea of how much they bleed and whether they need an extra wash or two.

I appreciate the info Jar! I am not too worried about bleeding since I only detail my car and as long as the bleeding is not on my light colored towels. So, the blue/green bleed should be ok for me. I guess I will find out!

I haven't had any bleeding issues and I have a GANG load of towels from The Rag Company. However, I have so many that I wash like towels with the same.

Thank you Junkman! I don't think there will be a problem with these at all.

Well, it has been confirmed that there is zero bleeding from any of these towels. I mixed in an older yellow and white micro and nothing.

Well, there's nothing like more confirmation. ;)

Im kind of getting in to detailing my car the right way finally. Im starting to care more in my older age (26 :rofl2: ) and want my car to look good. I havent kept good maintenance on any of my cars. Just the normal wash with Autozone supplies and a wax every now and then. Anyway, just found this thread and am looking forward to getting it done the right way!

Keep in mind that using good quality towels is only part of the equation. There are other equally important steps that you need to incorporate into your cleaning regime that will ensure that you get the best possible look out of your paint. Have you seen my other threads on proper maintenance for your ride?

Yep. Im not trying to be Charles Barkley hahaha.

Thoughts on the Adams double soft vs a comparable towel?

I'm late to this thread and wondering if theres another towel from the rag company similar to Adams top mf right now

Ordered $100 in towels and got them today. Excited to try them out. Thanks junkman!

That has already been discussed in this thread. You would benefit immensely from reading through it. :cool:

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Adams no longer sells the blue towel that is similar/identical to the one you review in your video. They have since, after the original post regarding Adams towels, come out with the white "double soft" microfiber towel, which I was careful to specifically mention in my post.

I was hoping someone would have had some experience with the towel you reviewed compared to the Adams "white double soft towel", but I guess I'll just go back to reading through the thread for the second time.

They used to have the double soft towel and then discontinued it and then brought it back. Same towel. IINM, the double soft towels are just two towels sewn together, so it's not any different in terms of touching the paint; it only feels different in your hand. All of Adam's towels are over priced IMO. I have 3x great white and 3x double soft that have all been relegated to trim or other non-paint duties.

That being said, I use a wide variety of other Adam's products and have been very pleased overall.

Not exactly. Here's the WHOLE story, including why it was discontinued and then brought back.

Adam's has always had that double-soft towel. Problem is, that double-soft towel changed when the manufacturer moved their plant. They were not able to recreate the same quality as they had before. The Rag Company use to carry that towel and called it "The Everest 1400." When the quality dropped and the towels started coming apart on customers, The Rag Company pulled them off their shelves, sent them back to the manufacturer and refunded anyone who wanted their money back. Now you know why they were discontinued for awhile.

The manufacturer has not to this day been able to recreate that quality, although they were able to keep them from coming apart (and wallah, those towels reappeared again). Thus, The Rag Company (and others), started carrying them again but The Rag Company changed the name of those towels to The Everest 1100 to reflect the drop in quality (no other reseller did that for their customers... imagine that :().

Last of all, the reason that Adam's no longer carries the blue towels is because The Rag Company has exclusive rights to sell those from that manufacturer.

Now I will leave it up to you Mr. Lynch to guess as to how I found out all this information but you can always buy them from whoever you want. Those of us in the know are going to save some money and get them a lot cheaper. ;)

I was looking at the Everest 1100 on the website and figured it was the same towel. You clarified what I was looking for in my original post. Thanks for the clarification. As loyal as I am to Adams products, I'll be purchasing the towels from the rag company from now on.

See I thought the discontinuation was more recent like a year or two. But maybe it was earlier. Because I have some Adam's double soft towels from 2011 that are definitely not the same quality as the eagle blue towels I now get from The Rag Company. One of my old double softs is in pretty poor shape, and with the seams coming apart it's pretty evident they are just two towels sewn together. They started coming apart almost right away on that one towel, and I began looking for other sources for towels and found The Rag Company thanks to Junkman :tup: :tiphat:

Which is why I don't care for them. Why are 2 towels sewn together any better than just one towel of the same quality? I mean, sewing two of them together doesn't double the quality, unless you use Sprint math. :D