Doing some rounds with the BOSS Foaming System.

Next time you are going to rinse the GG surface wash off the car. Try to start at the bottom of the car and work your way up. Just rinse with the width of the PW nozzle gets you. This is so you hit all of the surface with the water pressure from the PW. And you get a better cleaning ability when doing this. The dirty residue that you are getting the higher up you come has a better ability to run off a cleaned panel. And the chemicals is able to work till the water pressure clean it off the vehical. You might don`t see an extreme difference this way. But the benefits are a reason to at least test them out. Was a live video on Facebook I think that was linked here by Guz. That shows the rep from GG was recommend to use do it this way. I have used this method för a long time since we use alot more chemicals to prewash with here in Sweden. This clean with the water pressure from the PW from down and up is only when you have a chemical to clean of. With car soap and the last rinse it`s from top to bottom and I would even use the hose to do that step. So the higher water flow rinse off the car completly from car soap residue. This method was used with only a hose available too. And before the foamcannon and foam gun was being popular. It`s also so the dirt that has been rinsed off not gets clinging on the dirt that is being rinsed off lower down on the car. Was happy to see that Griots Garage has been looking over the pond how a prewash is cleaned off the car. The goal is to have as an effective prewash as possible before touching it with a wash mitt.
Since you feel like it worked as a touchless maintance wash says it`s the real deal of a dedicated prewash foam. You don`t get any near those results with a car soap. As that is made to be used with an aggitation to be as effective as possible to clean. And it`s the power from the PW that does the most cleaning and the prewash chemicals you use to clean the different dirt you have on the car is to help to desolve them. The goal once again is to get the most of the dirt off the vehical before you get that little dirt off with a touching wash. You can do a waterless wash or rinseless wash or a 2bm wash after the prewash. With a result you can see in a less dirty rinse bucket or cleaner mf wash towels. You get a safer wash and the risk of wash indused swirls is lower than if you don`t do a prewash step. Now I`m going to stop ranting over this.

Have a great weekend and wash safely LOL

/Tony
 
Tony - Great post. Thanks for catching the glitch in my approach! I feel silly having missed on doing the post-foam rinse starting at the bottom, working up then back down. On the maintenance (second) wash, I did follow it up with a flood rinse from the hose before moving on to drying. I’m looking forward to the Foaming Surface Prep getting wide release - it sounds much more like the strength of the pre-rinses you have available.

Dcjredline - On top of helping me out with a pressure washer fitting, Vanquish piled on the Autopian Awesome and sent me a sample of Chemical Guys Honeydew snow foam. If you want, some time I can try doing the same approach using that instead and report back my findings.

Briarpatch - thanks for the recommendation. Might watch for a sale and grab some, I’ve been thinking about trying that one for a while.
 
Oneheadlite said:
I tried the Ace hardware by me, but they didn’t have anything. I worried the big box stores wouldn’t have actual stainless fittings; was worried about corrosion from dissimilar metals.
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Exactly why I`m waiting for mine from MTM, Home Depot, Ace, 2 plumbing supply stores and none of them had the right fittings. Seems like MTM sales a lot of foam cannon adapters.
 
briarpatch said:
As a side note, I`d recommend McKees Wheel Coating. since I started using it, soap and water is all I need to use
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How long does their coating last? I go back and forth between whether coating or (conventional) LSPing is best for me..

But yeah, nice to just use shampoo mix and have `em clean up fine.
 
Accumulator said:
How long does their coating last? I go back and forth between whether coating or (conventional) LSPing is best for me..

But yeah, nice to just use shampoo mix and have `em clean up fine.
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Hard to say, because I re-apply every six months. I`ve tried this stuff, and PoorBoys Wheel Sealant, which is good, but not as good as the McKees.
 
The Surface Prep is a strip wash right? Do you think it is any better at removing dirt than Surface Wash or would the only reason to use it to be before doing any kind of paint correction/claying?
 
Oneheadlite said:
Dcjredline - On top of helping me out with a pressure washer fitting, Vanquish piled on the Autopian Awesome and sent me a sample of Chemical Guys Honeydew snow foam. If you want, some time I can try doing the same approach using that instead and report back my findings.
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Dont worry about it, Ive done it with HoneyDew and just like any other soap with just a foam and rinse, it leaves a lot of dirt film and bugs etc on the car still. Just a foam wash will never work IMO
 
Update- Did a maintenance wash on the Mrs’ Q5. I think it was a couple weeks since it’s last wash. Foamed with Surface Wash, allowed to dwell, then rinsed (bottom up then top down - thanks guys! :) ).
This time it was proper clean with no extra wash step required. Hit with a round of the foaming Poly Gloss.

Another update- Got some rain about a week or two after the last wash of my daily (Both of the foams). Foaming Poly Gloss continues to be the only LSP to speak of on my car. Here’s a pic of the beading if anyone’s curious:
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Worth mentioning is that while there was no LSP on the car prior to the Poly Gloss, I also wasn’t able to do any decontamination (mechanical or chemical) prior to applying it. As far as water behavior, the accumulated water tended to make a break for it around 50mph. No issues with water spots thus far.
 
very mild winter here. I would say this is probably the last of it, but in total, maybe a 4th time it`s been a salt brined paint....

Brummp for those who are using Surface Prep in your winter washing routine. How clean does it get, down to paint, or down to a film that must be mitt scrubbed, or shall we say, completely touchless ?
 
Surface prep is for those who wish to strip the car prior to correction. The system was never meant as a no touch system. However if you keep up on the car, you may not need the traditional wash. Sometimes I’ll just foam a second time and run a mitt across it just rinsing in clean water.
 
I`m going to try the Whips Salt on that thread that was recently started. The biggest challenge for is no-mar /// washing during the winter season. Various pre-soak, pre-foam, pre-treat before HP rinse, does not remove or make a dent in the salt film. It knocks the big particulates but not the salt film. I cringe when I run the mitt over it to - mechanically remove it- . Ha, you know it`s bad when you smell the overspray in the air and you catch the salt and you think you`re on the beach in the middle of winter.
 
mobiledynamics- I gather the winter weather factors in with regard to your facilities. Just wondering as, other than the winter Home Touchless I`ll do from time to tiem, I basically wash exactly the same year-round, just don`t need to do quite as many steps in the summer as I do when they`re winter-nasty.
 
Yeah, I know on the older touchless posts we have debated on, you`re able to HP rinse the salt off fairly easily. Whatever the mix is that they use out here, I could stand there with the PW on the same spot for 30 minutes, and I`m pretty sure the salt will remain.
 
mobiledynamics- I guess it`s been a while since I had to come up north to your area during the winter. They do use Brine a bit in my area, but so far it hasn`t been an issue this year.
 
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