Originally Posted by walterjay
Instead of a cloth use newspaper and whatever cleaner you have handy.
Every time there is a discussion on the subject of cleaning windshields, someone brings up the old newspaper method. Is the suggestion of using newspaper for cleaning some type of long running joke? I cannot recommend using newspaper.
I tried cleaning auto glass with newspapers decades ago. The results were awful. First, newspaper isn't flexible enough to lay on the windshield very well, unless you saturate it with glass cleaner. It shouldn't take that much glass cleaner to clean a windshield. But the real negative is when I was done I had newspaper ink all over my hands. And it doesn't take a genius to realize that if I have ink on my hands, there is also ink on the windshield. The results were lousy. I had to clean the windshield again with regular towels. (This was long before microfiber towels.)
Seriously, microfiber towels aren't that expensive. If you are cheap, find somewhere else to go cheap.