Can we talk about Bug Squash?

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CharlesW

The Rainmaker
Some time back I was given a 16 oz. bottle of Bug Squash. (Thanks anonymous donor. :))
As of yet, I have never used it and that seems like a waste.
How about some comments on how some of you use it and the dilution ratios you use for each use.

As far a removing bug residue, my vehicles have enough LSP on them that the bugs wash off quite easily with my regular wash products.

Tar removal is a rare need as well.

Would it be good for cleaning wheel wells?
It seems like I do get some tar deposits in the wheel wells quite often.

Underhood cleaning?
 
I have a pretty bad bug problem around my areas from around March to September, so even if I keep a fresh coat of LSP on my leading edges, I still accumulate a good bug collection on the front of my vehicles. It makes it hundreds of times easier and faster when I use BS versus when I don't. There's just something about it that really makes it work well at removing bug debris.

It does all this with what I feel like to be no "speeding up" of the degradation of my LSP. It also does not discolor plastics like other spray cleaners have been rumored to do.

I think you could use it anywhere you have a painted surface and need to do some "heavier than shampoo" cleaning.
 
I don't use a lot of it only because of the lack of bugs on the cars I work on...however Charles on the cars that I have had to use it...it is great to have.

As for other uses I have no idea!
 
Well Charles if you have no bugs out your way, I think i might have to have a summer house in Iowa:D

other uses if no bugs:

It works well to remove water spots on paint and windows full strength...:hmmm:

You can add a couple ounces to your window washer fluid to super charge it:hmmm:

You can use it in the winter full to half strength as a pre-wash:hmmm:

I'll think about it some more:idea
 
JaredPointer said:
I have a pretty bad bug problem around my areas from around March to September, so even if I keep a fresh coat of LSP on my leading edges, I still accumulate a good bug collection on the front of my vehicles. It makes it hundreds of times easier and faster when I use BS versus when I don't. There's just something about it that really makes it work well at removing bug debris.

It does all this with what I feel like to be no "speeding up" of the degradation of my LSP. It also does not discolor plastics like other spray cleaners have been rumored to do.

I think you could use it anywhere you have a painted surface and need to do some "heavier than shampoo" cleaning.
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Fortunately, I have very little "heavier than shampoo" cleaning needed. When my vehicles are really dirty, it is usually caked on mud or winter salt/sand debris. I'm talking about the accumulations that are 1/2" to 1" deep. I can't imagine removing that type of stuff without either a heavy hose spray or a pressure washer, mine or the DIY car wash's.

Ronkh said:
http://www.detailcity.org/forums/exterior-car-care/24394-water-pollen-rain-sun.html
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I read that thread when I did a search on Bug Squash, but here again, I don't have much pollen problem and almost no water spotting.

How about tree sap? Doesn't happen often, but I do sometimes have some. Here again, it comes off with my wash solution, but not as easy as the bugs do.
 
Poorboy said:
Well Charles if you have no bugs out your way, I think i might have to have a summer house in Iowa:D
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We have bugs, but they aren't that hard to remove with my regular washing products. That includes S&W :)

Poorboy said:
It works well to remove water spots on paint and windows full strength...:hmmm:
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Like I said, water spots aren't a problem for me. How about the drips that sometimes run down the vertical painted areas from mirrors, windows or spoilers? If I get them the same day, S&W takes care of them. If they set for a few days, I use an AIO such as PwS to get rid of them.

Poorboy said:
You can add a couple ounces to your window washer fluid to super charge it:hmmm:
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This could work, but I seldom use the windshield washers. Still could have some benefit when needed, though.

Poorboy said:
You can use it in the winter full to half strength as a pre-wash:hmmm:
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This could be a possibility. Diluted or straight for a pre-wash?
 
CharlesW said:
I read that thread when I did a search on Bug Squash, but here again, I don't have much pollen problem and almost no water spotting.

How about tree sap? Doesn't happen often, but I do sometimes have some. Here again, it comes off with my wash solution, but not as easy as the bugs do.
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I've been using it 1/2 strength since as a pre-wash then. It got rid of the leaf marks etc. This car is relegated outside now 24/7 unless my owner goes somewhere. I love this stuff. :love: I may throw a couple of ounces of it in the ww res and see if it works like Steve says. Because I think alot of my waterspot problems were from the p21 ww booster stuff I added. So I may just go back to regular ww fluid and supercharge it with BS. :bow
 
Steve you should have sent it to me in WESTERN IOWA , we have lots of bugs out here. But th again I did just receive a gallon of BS that I ordered. Sure is foggy out this morning here, so Im not in a big hurry toget out in the tractornd cultivator.
 
I *think* I read that it's supposed to be good for either adding to or (as previously mentioned) used as a winter pre-wash for the rinseless washes. I'm planning on trying it this next winter, as only 1 rinseless wash that I've tried so far worked very well on salt film, and that one was imported from "across the pond," so I don't have much of it and it's not likely I'll be able to get more anytime soon.
 
Just a bump here to see if there have been any other "winter Bug Squash pre-wash to a rinseless wash" users yet. (Did that make sense??)
 
My son in law has a 350 Super Duty that he is assigned as a work truck that he has to maintain and they check it quarterly. I use it as a pre wash and bug remover etc etc since it only gets cleaned quarterly by myself and him. It works GREAT!!!!.

I have tried different bug removers and such and nothing seems to work as well for me and he travels the eastern part of Pa and Va and there is a lot of bugs, in fact when we go to Canada for fishing trips that is all I use and yes we do mix it with the washer fluid and it really helps!!
I do not use it as a tar remover because I find Stoners Tarminator (or kerosene at times) to be better.

HTH
 
Big Leegr, I don't do too many rinseless washes, but I have made it SOP to put an ounce or 2 in my foam gun along with the car wash. I got this idea from Coastal Eddie who uses APC instead of the BS.

I know that isn't the question you are asking, but what the heck...:)
 
During the summer months I clean the front of my car every time I drive it.
While we don't have a bug problem like some southern states do when I get home I usually have a couple on the front and as soon as I pull into the garage I use glass cleaner to remove the bugs.
If done while fresh not sun backed on a little spritz of glass cleaner and a MF towel removes them.
Fast Effective and Cheap. :)
 
Without BS My paint would fall off the front of my vehicles. It makes the little buggers fall,melt right off,:D Charles it must be nice to live in a such a STERILE place where bugs have no survival rate. Better you keep running around with that power puff and S&W it sounds like it keeps you busy. It also saves me from hearing about it 4 the 10 millionth time.:wall

You live up north You gotta have BS its NO "BS" :bigups:howdy
 
I'm not going to go back through the thread, but what I intended to say is not that we don't have bugs, but that I don't have a bug problem.
If I have an accumulation of bugs,I just lay a wet towel, (warm water since that's what I use for washing) over the bugs while I wash other areas of the vehicle. The warm water soaking softens them to the place where they wash off quite easily with whatever wash product I happen to be using.

FWIW, I not only have still not used the Bug Squash for anything, I also have one of the bug scrub sponges that I have never used in the 2 or 3 years I have owned it.
 
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