Recommend a snow foam

[Zippee]

I've just about finished my krystal kleen blizzard foam and was wandering if there are any decent alternatives that give a great foam coverage but also loosen and take with the surface dirt. The blizzard was ok, smelt like you could eat it, but didn't really remove much surface grime.
What's pro-kleen stuff like?

[Davie]

Bilt Hamber Auto Foam... cleans superbly and doesn't create loads of foam that stays on the drive for days.

[Obi Wan]

I can recommend autobrite or autoglym snowfoam.

[D'oh]

I am using AngelWax Fast Foam at the moment and cannot recommend it enough - very good for the price

https://drivedetailed.com/product-review-angelwax-...

Was using Gtechniq Foam before that , but was a bit expensive. Finding the Angelwax stuff much better.

And has already been said , Cant go wrong with Bilt Hamber Stuff either

[Zippee]

Thanks all

[Clyde_05]

Currently using envy car care lovely bubbly. Got to admit prob one of if not the best snow foams I've used and I've tried a lot. I've got the BH to try once this runs out.

[Zippee]

Thanks. I bought the BH today from Amazon, £23 for 5l of it so should last me a while.
My cat is absolutely covered in grime at the moment so it'll be a good test of it.

[brad93]

ODK Arctic. Highly dilutable, smells like mint and actually cleans / removes dirt unlike most foams.

[gweaver]

Zippee said:

Thanks. I bought the BH today from Amazon, £23 for 5l of it so should last me a while.

Saw the thread title and was going to suggest this. Apparently it works very well as a pre-wash through a garden pump sprayer. Probably won't foam very much that way, but foam is apparently a bit pointless anyway - more of a marketing gimmick than an important function of a pre-wash.

Zippee said:

My cat is absolutely covered in grime at the moment so it'll be a good test of it.

Meow!

[Davie]

Oddly, with Bilt Hamber it only really "works" if the dilution is correct... which involves a pretty complex way of calculating. Basically, fill your gun with a litre of water then turn it to max and run it via the pressure washer in to a bucket until the gun is empty. For me, one litre of water in the gun created about 14.5litres of water in the bucket. Then multiply by 0.04 (to give 4% product at the panel) which gives me 0.58 = 580ml.

So, 580ml of snow foam to 420ml of water in the snow foam gun, gives the recommended 4% dilution at the panel but that seems like a lot of snow foam to me. I can generally do two cars for every full gun (I tend to do under the arches etc) so by my reckoning that means I'll get 8.6 gun loads from one 5L tub, which means about 17 washes, so just over a quid per wash...

Or perhaps I've totally got that wrong, but having read a fairly comprehensive review on Detailing World, this is how the chap did it but he reckons he only uses 100ml of dilution solution out of his snow foam gun for every wash, thus he gets five washes out one gun full... so either his car is tiny or I'm going way overboard with how much I'm soaking the cars?

However, this all seems far too complicated... my head hurts.

https://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread....

On the upside, it does seem to clean rather well and doesn't create lots of thick, gloopy foam that hangs around for days which is a bit of a plus point.... really don't get the whole "look at my car looking like it's been doused in shaving foam" sort of thing. Bilt Hamber seem to say that a thin, very wet coat is all that's needed to soften and drag dirt away then rinse. Dwell time (I hate that word!) is less, so in short for a quick blast and rinse off it seems to be the best which suits me as I rarely bother with a bucket and sponge... I just like it as a quick solution to get rid of the built up mud, cow muck and suck like on a regular basis.

[gweaver]

Calculating & checking PIRs, fixing snow foam lances and all that palaver seems like a waste of time when it's very simple and effective to dilute Auto Foam/pre-wash down and spray via a garden pump sprayer. The latter is less wasteful too.

One of the big advantages of BH Auto Foam is that it's effective as a snow foam or pre-wash, so if you don't want the shaving foam effect, use it as pre-wash.

[Leo31291]

gweaver said:

Calculating & checking PIRs, fixing snow foam lances and all that palaver seems like a waste of time when it's very simple and effective to dilute Auto Foam/pre-wash down and spray via a garden pump sprayer. The latter is less wasteful too.

One of the big advantages of BH Auto Foam is that it's effective as a snow foam or pre-wash, so if you don't want the shaving foam effect, use it as pre-wash.

This. Haven't washed the car for 2 months. Normally after such a period I would get the pressure washer out with a snow foam. But I couldn't be bothered and instead used a pump sprayer with some valetpro citrus pre wash, left to dwell and then hosed off. Honestly didn't see any difference between the two in the end result and was much quicker.