ONR or Foam gun?

[1sty]

Half of the people in the detailing community seem to suggest a foam gun to avoid swirls and scratches.

The other half seem to boast about ONRs ability.

So I am confused.

Can ONR clean without creating swirls?



Should a foam gun only be used when the car hasn`t been washed in a month or is it just overkill?



I have no restrictions from using a hose and even have a decent power washer so a good foam gun is all I am missing....but is it really necessary?

[AeroCleanse]

I prefer to use ONR and I don`t get swirls. My advice is use what you like, as long as it does the job for you.

[Chris@Optimum]

Both have their place. I use both.

[Dubbin1]

2 totally different products for 2 different uses. The ONR isn`t something you want to use on a very dirty car while the foam gun would good for this while doing a traditional wash. ONR is for a vehicle that is only slightly dirty.

[Blinky]

ONR solution applied via a Nomad portable sprayer is another way to loosen up crud on the paint. It`s sorta the same idea as using a foam gun, i.e. spraying a section of the car (or the whole car, I suppose) to allow the billions of cleaning polymer molecules to bind and "lift" dirt off the paint.

[Accumulator]

1sty- Welcome to Autopia!



I`m guessing you know which side of this particular fence *I* am on ;)



But note that I`ve set a pal up with an ONR-based wash system and he`s happy with it. And even I do use ONR for some things.



Try both and see which one works best for you. As long as you don`t need to polish more than once a year (and only very lightly even then), all is well. If the whole vehicle needs M105 every year, then something is very wrong. When your daily driver can go a few years without polishing, then you`ve really got a handle on it :D



A foamgun isn`t all *that* expensive and if you don`t like it you can probably find a buyer for it. Note that whichever system you try, it might take a while to get your technique sorted out; I must`ve used the foamgun over a dozen times before I quit thinking "this worthless thing is just a toy".

[ESSO]

I think that depends on the deposits of the car that much. I think ONR better

[bjungx007]

what about onr in a foam gun along with some soap? :)

[Accumulator]

what about onr in a foam gun along with some soap? :)



Nah, incompatible concepts; the foamgun best lends itself to a "dislodge and flush" approach, whereas ONS is a "transfer the encapsulated dirt to the wash medium" approach.



When you finish a (correctly done as *I* see it) wash with a foamgun, the rinse bucket water is still pretty clean even if the vehicle in question was utterly filthy and the wash media are spotless.



When you finish a (correctly done as *I* see it) wash with ONR, the rinse bucket water and the wash media are both quite dirty.