Power washer Detergent help Please
Power washer Detergent help Please
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Supercharger

Original Poster:

44 posts

253 months

Friday 5th January 2007
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Can anyone reccomend a wax friendly detergent that
will not strip wax off the paint for use in a
Karcher power washer.
Also is there an alloy wheel cleaner thats not like using
neat acid, i stopped using wonder wheels as it made
a mess of my brake calipers, is Autoglim or Maguires OK.

Thanks Alan

wildoliver

9,167 posts

232 months

Friday 5th January 2007
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autoglym is acid based.

Graeme H

259 posts

224 months

Saturday 6th January 2007
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Meguiars #36 professional wheel cleaner is non-acidic

hutchingsp

59,372 posts

226 months

Saturday 6th January 2007
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For the detergent, if you're using the detergent gun that came with the Karcher I'd just mix up some car shampoo and use that to soak the car before washing it, assuming you'll wash it after as it's unlikely you'll get all the dirt off the car just with the pressure washer.

For the wheels, I use Muc-Off, just the pink bike cleaner, seems to work great even diluted 1:1 with water and isn't overly harsh AFAIK.