Snow Foam

[avaF1]

well...............do you...................?

[p4cks]

Nope. Total and utter waste of time but seems the marketing teams have made the detailers absolutely cream themselves over it

[Dont like rolls]

Yes, I use Blt+H, works very well IF you have a good layer of polish on first. Then, and only then does it work as expected.

Snow Foam on a dry car, leave and then jet wash
Bucket with wash/wax
Rinse
Drying towel

[Kev_Mk3]

Dont like rolls said:

Yes, I use Blt+H, works very well IF you have a good layer of polish on first. Then, and only then does it work as expected.

Snow Foam on a dry car, leave and then jet wash
Bucket with wash/wax
Rinse
Drying towel

Exactly the same as this

[GregK2]

Yep. Bilt Hamber as above. Not the gimmicky shaving foam stuff that lingers on the drive all day.
It's quick and easy enough to do as a pre wash.
Finding the right ratio to use is probably the hardest bit.

[Crafty_]

Another BH user here.

Its a waste of time if you are quite content to use a 3 year old sponge, half a bucket of hot water and a bit of washing up liquid.

If you want to try and keep your paintwork as good as can be, I think its very useful. Once you have a coat of wax/sealant on the amount of dirt snowfoaming will remove its quite surprising.

[avaF1]

on a dry car........................thats an education......................did not know................ !!! how many apply to wet car and form opinion...............?

hmmm...........useage or pre-wash terminology.....................so then it does not replace a traditional hand bucket wash.......................?

[Crafty_]

Yes apply to a dry car.

It does not replace hand wash. The idea is to remove all the loose dirt and anything more stubborn gets softened up.

Swirls and other paint damage comes from rubbing dirt around the paint - one of the causes could be rubbing a sponge/mitt etc along dirty paintwork or the mitt itself being dirty. So, if you can remove muck and dirt the before the so much the better.

You can't avoid swirls, it will happen. All you can do is try and reduce as much as possible.

Process:

Snowfoam
wait 5 mins / until most of it has run off
Rinse
Handwash
Rinse
Dry

[Zarco]

A dry car. This indeed is a revelation!

Makes sense when you think about it too.

I've only been doing it wrong since last summer

[GregK2]

I think there's different schools of thought on that though. I personally like to use it on a dry car too, but it's not "wrong" to rinse before using snowfoam either. Especially if the car is heavily soiled.

[avaF1]

ref : dry car......................... see Amazon sales page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lance-Karcher-Connector-5... . see video..........................https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/D1Dg4W-m2OS.mp4 . see step .......................! pre rinse...............!

[Let off some steam Bennett]

Utter bks in my eyes.
Citrus pre wash , power wash off and then clean with wash mitt and buckets

[beanoir]

If you use a decent ACTIVE snow foam then it’s a very effective pre-wash process.

The Bilt Hamber is very good and will remove 90% of the dirt and road film from your car, leaving you with a very easy and safe hand wash after. The Piston Works do a good selection of decent snow foam products.

https://www.thepistonworks.com/collections/snow-fo...

The ValetPRO advanced Snow foam is also very effective.

[Dont like rolls]

avaF1 said:

ref : dry car......................... see Amazon sales page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lance-Karcher-Connector-5... . see video..........................https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/D1Dg4W-m2OS.mp4 . see step .......................! pre rinse...............!

That is one way to get people to use to much product, why dilute the product on the car ?

The way snow foam works is by sticking to the surface, wet surfaces allow it to slide off.

[Crafty_]

Let off some steam Bennett said:

Utter bks in my eyes.
Citrus pre wash , power wash off and then clean with wash mitt and buckets

Snowfoam is just a prewash, so Its no less or more bks than using a citrus one, just a different method.

[Blanco92]

I’ve always used Valet Pro citrus pre-wash, but just bought some Advanced Neutral snow foam to try (from a pump sprayer). Have never used it before. I’ll update after I’ve used it.

[Crafty_]

Never done it, but i believe it does work from a pump sprayer, but better from a lance, I think you can get them pretty cheap now, mine is about 12 years old.

[fourstardan]

I've bought some cheap stuff from my local surplus shop.

TBH, i've found it to be no better/different to expensive stuff and won't go back to expensive Snow Foams.

[Calza]

I use to find it quite useful if I was lazy, snow foam only.

It absolutely did not get the car clean, but for the minimal effort involved (especially living in a flat), it got a lot of the dirt off quite quickly!

[Cocknose]

Another vote for Bilt Hamber here, works a treat.