Just got one....

Works really well as you can see....

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i use mine all the time, with great results, with strange looks from the OAP's that walk past

I read using hot water works better when mixing the solution for the attached bottle

That looks cool, think I might have to invest in one.......what soap do you reccomend using with it?

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Nick - hot water works best because you can dissolve more salts into it than cold water, also hot water softens tar deposits giving the detergent a better chance of removing them.
When I hand wash my cars the program usually runs
a) Cold water wash with no brush to get the really heavy bits off
b) Cold wash with a car wash brush
c) Hand wash with very soft sponge and quality car wash soap like Magauires or Turtle wax Zip wax in hotest water I can stand
d)Cold water rinse off using a garden hose

I might give that power lance thing a try -then it can join all the other useful aids that I cannot be bothered to use a second time and are lying in a big box at the back of the garage!

One thing to use with huge care is a Karcher type pressure washer with a turbo lance - they are powerful enough to remove paint and definitely remove underbody sealer. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Personally i give the car

1) low pressure washer with cold water (High pressure wheels)
2) Snowfoam solution, made up with hot water
2a) Clean wheels whilst snowfoam is working
3) High Pressure wash at held 45deg (so it doesn't force dirt into the paint)
4) Hand wash 2 buckets method warm water with quality shampoo/wax, and noodle mitten
5) open hose rinse, to sheet off the water
6) dry with waffle weave microfibre towels
7) top up with spray on wax and polish to a shine

I would use a tar remover on the lower panels if they apprear to need it to spotted in between stages 3 & 4

Then on to the wifes car, do do the same

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I have always been told that you do not use hot water to get salt off as it makes the salt action on the car more aggressive. Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
Clan Cameron

I haven't heard that before, but by the time, i get to the hand wash there would be any salt on the car

The hot water in the foam lance is meant to make a better foam, but since in most cases it been pushed out via a pressure washer using coldwater, the foam would be cold by the time it reaches the car.

dazsear wrote:

That looks cool, think I might have to invest in one.......what soap do you reccomend using with it?

Daz

With the foam lance, have a look at getting some snowfoam

there are various brands, this makes it really really foamy and acts like a traffic film remover too, lossening all the dirt on the car

Can't see any bottle of it on Polished bliss, but i am sure they do, i have bought nearly all my car washing stuff from them, and have just been finding out about a new range of polishes they are doing for correcting my cars conifer tree rash from kielder.

I then use a range of shampoos, from meguiars NTX, turtlewax wash 'n' wax and Zymol.

I don't use any of these methods......I get mine done at the local hand car wash, £8 and excellent

Get a full valet once ever 2 or 3 months

last time i went to one of those places I was in the queue waiting to go in and was watching the lads at work, when he dropped his chamois leather and shook it, then carried on drying the car.

The time before that, at a different place, they washed the whole car, rinsed, and asked me to drive forward to the drying bay.

I asked them to wash the roof at this point as they hadn't even touched it

I now do my own

Yeah most car wash places are

you have to search out the good ones who are smart enough to realise that if you drop your sponge in grit and pick it up people notice and dont go back.

the one I use has all kinds of exotic cars going through it so think it must be highly thought of in the car washing world

JayMann has a very good IMO washer near him - they have a conveyor machine washer but also do a very good manual wash too for extra. Have had my car washed a couple of times by them when I have been down in those parts.
Up here I now use the local pressure washer centre who have 3 carwash bays, they do a cold low pressure wash followed by a hot wash with soap like in Paul's picture, a hand wash over with a frequently rinsed sponge then a rinse and then sort of a wax spray finish on the body panels. Like JF says it is frequented by the very few exotic cars around these parts so it cannot be bad! Costs £5 for an SUV or an exotic, £2 or £3 for lesser cars 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

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