What`s a good, harsh foam?

[cobrar97]

I have a foam cannon which I use with Gyeon Foam on my coated vehicles. I`ve come to get a lot of use from the foam cannon as a pre-soak to my usual wash.
At my business, we have vehicles with full graphics wraps. These are delivery vehicles and they get washed about once a week. We take them through the local touchless wash so as to get them decently clean but not damage the graphics. The car wash uses a pretty harsh pre-soak that actually does a great job and getting debris off the vehicles. I was wondering if there was foam to use in my foam cannon with the same level of agressivness. Something I definitely wouldn`t use on my own vehicles, but it would save a ton of money from going to the car was with the delivery vehicles.
Any thoughts?

[rlmccarty2000]

Add some all purpose cleaner to your normal (cheap) shampoo. This will help cut the dirt and contaminates. I do this on some of my vehicles that are going to get a full correction anyway.

[cobrar97]

Hey...never even thought of that. About how much do you add to a 100ml foam bottle that`s already a 1:10 with the shampoo?

[rlmccarty2000]

You will have to experiment with this. It will vary based on the strength of the APC. I use Meg`s APC and add about and ounce or one good glug. Don`t let it dry on the vehicle and rinse well.

[XxBoostinxX]

Auto Finesse Avalanche is a great pre-wash. I bought a gallon before Detailers Domain quit carrying their line. I use it every wash and it is pretty aggressive. I have heard great things of valet pro`s citrus prewash. Unfortunately neither product is available here in the states.

[4u2nvinmtl]

2OZ of Meg`s Hyper Wash and 6OZ of Meg`s APC in a 32OZ foam cannon bottle filled with water worked really well as a harsh foam.

Foam looked so good I had to take pictures:

[cobrar97]

Obviously the APC mix is the way to go. I have some powerclean I`ll try to mix in.

[Swanicyouth]

Bilt Hamber Snow Foam (left) is a strong APC style foam this is said to be "wax safe". I believe there is a vendor of this stuff somewhere in the USA now, but when I bought it, I had it shipped from Europe and paid dearly....



It smells very strange - but works very well.

I tried Avalance by AF, and that was pretty good as well. It seems most people have dropped the AF line in the USA though.

Looking back, I probably would have saved my money and just mixed some APC with regular shampoo.

[cobrar97]

Looks like Autogeek has AF Avalance, but it`s on backorder: Auto Finesse Avalanche Snow Foam, foam gun soap

[Bunky]

I thought AG stopped carrying the line as well.

[XxBoostinxX]

Looks like Autogeek has AF Avalance, but it`s on backorder: Auto Finesse Avalanche Snow Foam, foam gun soap

They don`t carry it anymore. A lot of their line still has links to AG, but it all says "backordered".

[cobrar97]

Ah...too bad. I ordered some CG Citrus Wash (they say foams great)...and I`ll mix in some APC and see what we get.