Maybe this short excursion into "linting Problems" could help a little bit.
We really appreciate that you recommend our products to solve the linting Problem and in general, we agree. But we also have to fight with these issues from time to time, sometimes we can explain the reason, sometimes not. Sometimes its a matter of application, sometimes a matter of production Quality.
So what we can tell you in General for ALL microfiber products:
-> If the surface is not SMOOTH, the risc of linting is higher than you are using a microfiber product on a smooth surface. Maybe this extreme example helps to realize the Problem:
Imagine a paint which is full of surface contamination. Rust, old bird dropping residue, bug splatter... For sure, all of us would use a clay bar to remove this stuff. But in this example we dont remove but we grab a random towel and rub over the contaminated surface. Because of this rough surface, the fibers are stopped often and it is like the surface contamination "grabs" the fibers our of the towel. If you clay the surface and do the same, the towel glides smoothly over the paint, dont leaving any lint.
For sure, there is also an important difference in Quality! A super premium made towel shouldnt lint as much as a cheap towel with poor Quality. But we would say, in the case of the example above: BOTH will leave lint!
If you now adapt this example on glass: Glass is USUALLY on your car not as smooth as your paint. A clean glass surface (UNTREATED!) is stopping a towel more than you a painted surface. Thats the reason btw why we are offering a WAFFLE WEAVE glass towel because it has less surface density and glides better over a "not so smooth" surface. Also you MOSTLY shouldnt realize a linting of a waffle weave drying towel - they are also offered as an Option for not so well maintained cars because the waffle structure glides better over rougher surfaces.
But thats not everything... unfortunately! ;-)
Even if you have perfect cleaned and smooth paint, you will realize lint! As said above, it COULD be a matter of a bad Quality towel (mostly an issue with the fluffy ones), but it must not be the main reason: If you are buffing out a wax or a sealant, or using a spray detailer, its possible that the product is sometimes hard to remove or the detailer is DURING the application not as smooth as it is when you buffed everything out. And now it Comes back to the example above: A "rough" surface (this means also if you have a sticky wax /sealant) means that the towel could "stop" on the paint and this stopping could cause linting.
If you have a combination of a rougher surface AND a poor Quality towel, this will be a nightmare for every detailer. I dont want to Name a competitor product, but you can check a Review in Coreys webshop. We have this named towel also here and we only bought it to compare the look & feel with ours. We never used it! Some day Corey showed us the Review, talking bad about this Special product and talking positive about ours. This was so ugly regarding this "other towel" that we directly grabbed it and did a comparison on a trunk in our detailing Garage... I can only say, that every word in the Review was TRUE! It was a mess! The fabric of this competitor towel was stopping even on a well maintained surface and it caused horrible linting. We gave the towel our workers and said "Please use it and tell us what you think". All of them couldnt believe how poor the glide effect was! So as you can see, ALSO the Quality of a towel is a part of the Story.
If you have a perfect surface, a perfect towel and a good product you use: There should be really less linting in any case. If you Change 1 of the 3 parts, the linting is coming to your house ;-)
Hope this could help a Little bit. We dont want to talk bad about other products, we also know that in some cases our fluffy towels could lint (remember the 3 parts above!), but usually a short pile towel or a waffle weave towel shouldnt cause any Problems in most cases...
Thomas
I love them so much!!!