Foam Lance

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Belle427

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8,863 posts

232 months

Saturday 7th November 2020
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Can anyone recommend a basic lance for snow foaming, planning on using bilt hamber through the winter.
I have an aldi workzone pressure washer, probably similar to a karcher attachment.
around £30 would be ideal.

Summit_Detailing

1,875 posts

192 months

Saturday 7th November 2020
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You are much better off with a pump sprayer and a pre-wash, something like Bilt hamber SurfexHD or Autosmart Prestige XLS.

Cheers,

Chris

p4cks

6,885 posts

198 months

Saturday 7th November 2020
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Snow foaming to men are like candles to women. Either way, you're burning money

Pjb2003

168 posts

52 months

Saturday 7th November 2020
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I would recommend the Autobrite snow foam lance. They are selling on Ebay for £37.75 with 500ml snow foam. Make sure it fits your pressure washer before ordering

Belle427

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8,863 posts

232 months

Sunday 8th November 2020
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Summit_Detailing said:
You are much better off with a pump sprayer and a pre-wash, something like Bilt hamber SurfexHD or Autosmart Prestige XLS.

Cheers,

Chris
I actually tried this yesterday on a white car that had a decent layer of traffic film etc and it didn’t seem to do a lot.
Dilution ratio about 5:1.


Belle427

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8,863 posts

232 months

Sunday 8th November 2020
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p4cks said:
Snow foaming to men are like candles to women. Either way, you're burning money
I do get it that some people think it’s snake oil but in any tests I’ve seen of the Bilt Hamber product it’s been very good.
I will consider not bothering though if it’s no better than the Surfex HD I use.

Jasey_

4,823 posts

177 months

Sunday 8th November 2020
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https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082KW12RF/r...

Used to have a Kirchner one and thought it was ok is.

When it broke I got this one and its so much better.

Do know if it will fit your machine but you can double check.

Shanksy87

370 posts

121 months

Sunday 8th November 2020
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Foam canons performance once you get out of the really cheap stuff is fairly similar, I use an MTM that works well for £45'ish.

A more important factor is the pressure washer, if it doesn't flow a decent amount or the orifice size is too large the foam quality is going to underwhelm. Anything sub £100 is just not worth bother with a foam canon in my experience.

Also consider water softness, if you have rock hard water then the foam will again suffer unless you use a highly alkaline strip wash type of soap. The specially formulated foaming soaps don't usually foam that much better than regular car shampoo, but they do sit on the surface for longer.

As commented above, perfectly, it's candles for men. But if you want nice candles you're going to need to pay for it.