Oneheadlite
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Finally got the Greenworks yesterday.
Like someone mentioned earlier, it wasn`t on their website anymore - looks like they no longer sell it anywhere. Best Buy removed their listing from their site while I was waiting for my order, for a while I was wondering if they`d actually be able to fulfill my order. But, they managed to get one direct from GW. If they failed, I was getting ready to go for the newer SunJoe (24v-x2) because I really wanted to try cordless. Would have been quite a jump in price though since I would have had to get a unit with batteries also.
Gave the GW a test run last night and have to say I`m happy with how it went. Gave the wife`s Q5 a bath in the garage - Did the wheels first with normal car wash soap and a boars hair wheel brush. Used the pressure washer to rinse the wheels then pre-spray the car to remove any road grit. Followed that with a Rinseless wash with Griot`s Brilliant Finish Rinseless (I`m really digging that stuff).
Water wise, I think I went through about 5 gallons. I used my 4.0aH battery from the leaf blower I have and only used 1/2 of it.
Performance wise, it`s exactly what I was expecting (again - rated at 800psi. I thought the quoted GPM was .8, but the tech specs in the manual say 1.0gpm). You`re not going to strip paint off a bridge with it, but to clean up a car for RW duty it was just fine. Definitely looking forward to getting a stubby gun for it - in close quarters in a garage it`s tight moving around with the full wand that comes with it. I was also really happy with how quite the machine was. I`d say it`s quieter than my 1600/1.2 Ryobi for sure.
At some point, just for giggles I`ll hook up my BOSS cannon and see if it can make any kind of foam. I`m also curious to play with the cute little soap bottle it came with and see what kind of dilution ratio it`s putting out. Who knows, maybe I could use that to apply a Rinseless of choice as a pre-soak before putting towel to paint.
Initial impression: If you`re someone like me who doesn`t have a coin-op car wash anywhere in a reasonable vicinity, and even a touchless tunnel wash is hard to come by, this could be a solid option to consider.
Like someone mentioned earlier, it wasn`t on their website anymore - looks like they no longer sell it anywhere. Best Buy removed their listing from their site while I was waiting for my order, for a while I was wondering if they`d actually be able to fulfill my order. But, they managed to get one direct from GW. If they failed, I was getting ready to go for the newer SunJoe (24v-x2) because I really wanted to try cordless. Would have been quite a jump in price though since I would have had to get a unit with batteries also.
Gave the GW a test run last night and have to say I`m happy with how it went. Gave the wife`s Q5 a bath in the garage - Did the wheels first with normal car wash soap and a boars hair wheel brush. Used the pressure washer to rinse the wheels then pre-spray the car to remove any road grit. Followed that with a Rinseless wash with Griot`s Brilliant Finish Rinseless (I`m really digging that stuff).
Water wise, I think I went through about 5 gallons. I used my 4.0aH battery from the leaf blower I have and only used 1/2 of it.
Performance wise, it`s exactly what I was expecting (again - rated at 800psi. I thought the quoted GPM was .8, but the tech specs in the manual say 1.0gpm). You`re not going to strip paint off a bridge with it, but to clean up a car for RW duty it was just fine. Definitely looking forward to getting a stubby gun for it - in close quarters in a garage it`s tight moving around with the full wand that comes with it. I was also really happy with how quite the machine was. I`d say it`s quieter than my 1600/1.2 Ryobi for sure.
At some point, just for giggles I`ll hook up my BOSS cannon and see if it can make any kind of foam. I`m also curious to play with the cute little soap bottle it came with and see what kind of dilution ratio it`s putting out. Who knows, maybe I could use that to apply a Rinseless of choice as a pre-soak before putting towel to paint.
Initial impression: If you`re someone like me who doesn`t have a coin-op car wash anywhere in a reasonable vicinity, and even a touchless tunnel wash is hard to come by, this could be a solid option to consider.