snow foam im doing it wrong
 

Hey lads theirs something im doing badly wrong as i jsut cant get this stuff to work ie..

1 inch of normal shampoo with water - Hardly foams, wont stick to the car or clean it.


1 inch of shampoo and 1 inch of super foam - sticks better but dosent clean the car

1 inch of super foam on its own - foams better and sticks to the car but dosent clean it at all..

So far ive tried these as i have no idea of how much stuff to use or anything, i normally use youtube videos to learn tech and stuff but theyre really unhelpful, its just people spraying their cars :S

Anyone shed any light on where im going wrong as it dosent shift any dirt,grime at all not even loose bird poo :(

i usually jet wash the car first then snowfoam it after

Yer i wet it first then tried the above dilutions and it didnt do anything :homme:

I know your ment to still hand wash it afterwards but i literallly just wasted my time :wall:

Are you using the Autobrite HD lance?

An inch of foam is fine, topped up with water, and turn the dial right round to the - (minus) sign

Right round to the minus means less water more foam, should be sticky as fuck

Give the car a coat of it but don't coat it on too thick as it'll start dripping off.. Leave it for a good 5 minutes, maybe give your wheels a quick clean while its dwelling, then rinse it off

Should remove most dirt and any bird shit

If you're doing all this then fuck knows whats wrong

If im foaming i normaly do a inch of maxi suds then magic foam. Then pressure washer it off then just clean all the rest of the foam off with a open water source. foaming just loosens dirt.

You got a good LSP down?

I find that I often have loads of the mix left in the bottle, so I do it again for the shits & giggles

I bought the lance that J2222rsa posted up the other day?

Think i had it somewhere in the middle between maximum and minium.. did wonder if i was putting it on too thick.

Ill give it another go when i get chance and try a "lighter" coating.

Thanks guys.

Whats a "lsp" ?

I use the valet pro ph neutral snow foam and get it nice and thick.

An inch of snow foam with a drop of shampoo
Fill it up with warm water and give it a shake then turn it down to "-" and its all good!

I've used the super snow foam & the cherry that the autobrite comes with, If I'm honest I couldn't notice any difference towards levels of foam.

you should be able to get thickness like this

I also wasnt shaking it..

Cant beleive theirs not a good youtube video on this, when i first wanted to do polishing/waxing i watched a few vid's and got well clued up :wacko:

Yer thats similar to what i had but it ran off very quickly so i went over it loads and loads (which i now see might of not been helping) so i let it soak and still didnt touch the dirt :S

It sounds like maybe you're expecting too much from it, I do it as a quick clean to loosen up a bit of the dirt but it won't get off bird crap at all really or anything like that.

It's kind of a novelty to be honest, it's certainly not a crucial stage but seeing as I've got it & it's quite fun I carry on doing it

So its just to loosen it? i thaught it got all the crap off and just left the slimmy film of dirt?

That makes sence.. il still hand wash afterwards i just thaught it would make it cleaner as ive heard in the past of people who only snow foam their car :homme:

No idea why you would just snowfoam tbh, maybe for a top-up clean but that's a bit gay.

I Just shoot around the car with it, leave the foam to dwell for about 5, rinse off, repeat if you have foam left in the lance & can be assed then wash as usual it only adds about 10 minutes onto my usual wash anyway not exactly a time consuming process like waxing etc

It certainly does remove some dirt as if you look at the foam, particularly near the wheels you will see the foams turned brown :afro:

yea as far as i know a snowfoam is just a pre cleaner and isnt ment to take of bird shit etc, it just loosens dirt and road grime as said.

Last step prep mate, wax sealant etc.

If you havnt got a decent amount down it hardly cleans at all

As said, I found that with snowfoam when I first got my clio, not much happened, now the car has sealant etc. on, snowfoam works a lot better :)

Sometimes when I'm feeling really lazy and cant be arsed with buckets I just slap on some snowfoam and wash the car with that.

It felt wrong and against my beliefs but worked well for a quick wash.

2inches of VP Snow Foam, a drop of Maxi Suds II and hot water produces this for me...


Holdawayt - I foam, rinse then re-foam and use a soap solution and mitts as part of my wash stage, works perfectly fine