Is There Anything Wrong With Cleaning My Window Insides With a Cotton Cloth? (buy, aftermarket)

[Exitus Acta Probat]

I keep reading that a microfiber cloth should be used to clean the insides of windows, but I'd rather use a cotton sock since it's a lot easier to wash a sock than a microfiber cloth. Is the glass used in today's cars so fragile that cotton could easily scratch it? When I was a kid, I cleaned my windows with a cotton sock since we didn't have microfiber cloths and socks worked just fine.

[gunslinger256]

it's more about the lint left behind by the cotton.

if you have aftermarket tinted windows, you should avoid amonia based cleaners

[notnamed]

Newspaper was always the go-to but who gets those anymore?

[ukrkoz]

Nothing wrong buy should you wipe fogged window, you'll make streaks all over. That's how fogged windows are.

[victimofGM]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Newspaper was always the go-to but who gets those anymore?

Newsprint use to be good but they switched to a different grade of paper and it doesn’t clean as well. Some weekly circulars still use the old type of paper like what was used as newspapers in years past.

[SoCalCpl2]

As long as the sock has no fabric softener on it... Fabric softener will cause spotting on the windows....

[tillman7]

Use Scott shop towels for glass, they work better than newspaper.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Newspaper was always the go-to but who gets those anymore?

I do.

[Crashj007]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Newspaper was always the go-to but who gets those anymore?

I was looking for a newspaper at my daughter's place the other day. I asked her and she relied, "Dad, we use an iPod for that now." I wasn't sure, but since she said so I smacked the damned fly with her iPod. Killed the fly, but her iPod will never be the same.