Okay what I am wanting to know is how to condition a new chamois after you get it and before you use it. In the instructions it says something like soaking it in water with some dish soap to get the oils out of the chamois and I have tried this but after I am done with the chamois and let it dry it gets very hard and will soften up after i get it wet again but it just takes more time to dry the car with a wet chamois, even after ringing the water out almost after every pass I make with it. Just wondering if I am doing something wrong or what. Any help from anyone would be great since I need to get a new one this year.

 

just be consistent with it....you dont want to put a dry one on your car (obviously)....it still dry's faster than the wind

...microfibers soad up a ton of water too

 

microfiber cloth rags are the jam

get yourself one of those snazzy super soaking towels from walmart. i can't remember what it's called but it comes in a plastic tube, and it's usually either teal, purple, or yellow. get one of those, use it to soak up the majority of the water and then use microfiber rags to get the rest, it will leave the car SPOTLESS

 

Absorbers.

 

I work at a car wash right now during high school and I've been working there for over 3 years. We use chamois to dry the cars off. We keep ours in water when we aren't using them during the day to make sure that any dirt that does get absorbed gets washed out. When we close up at the end of the day, we ring them out and lay them out to dry over night so the water thats in them doesn't get sour. Like you said, once you stick them in water they soften up and that is what they are made to do.