foam guns?

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AndyC_1

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Have done some searching here, Meguiars UK and Google without much success!



Has anyone bought a foam gun in the UK? any good? where from? etc etc



The only one I could find was over £100 which is IMHO plain silly - Gilmour (the popular US brand) retail for $60 or less so as usual we're bending over big time price-wise!



Thoughts?
 
No idea Andy I'm afraid - have to say it's not something I'm that interested in. You still need to rinse the mitt in a bucket of water to keep it clean, so why not just have another one full of wash solution?



Ben
 
Tis true Ben - probably a case of "why not" more than a decent reason to have another piece of kit!



It's primarily for my 205 - 16 year old black paint, mostly single stage and polished to within a micron of its life. I'm trying to find the ultimate wash tecnhique to minimize wash induced marring and thereby reduce the need to polish after washing. OK, I can cheat and glaze after every wash - RMG/VMW aren't exactly horribly abrasive after all, but I'm just asking whether anyone's got one, used one, had good, bad or indifferent experience etc.



Mind you, having now tried the Eurow washmitt I'm a lot closer to getting the perfect technique - it's VERY good indeed and way better than mitts I've used before.
 
AndyC_1 said:
Mind you, having now tried the Eurow washmitt I'm a lot closer to getting the perfect technique - it's VERY good indeed and way better than mitts I've used before.
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What are these and where do I get them?! :D
 
Great gents - thanks for the PM Paul!



Anyone actually used one? The more I read up on these, the more I ask myself "why?" as Ben says, using proper 2 bucket methodology and being careful should eliminate the need for this and at over £50 either way (USA or Smarter World) it seems like a lot of money!



That said, Smarter World are about 20 minutes from me so I could always get a demo before buying - will keep searching DIY stores and the like as I'm sure there must be cheaper ways to do this.



Ben - Eurow mitts from C&S mate - softest I've yet used and left almost no marring on the 205 at the weekend - very impressed!
 
The one in Pugoman's link is the right one.



I'm in a similar situation with my polished-to-death Jag. I have to take care of the thin layer of paint it still has.



IMO it's worth whatever it costs to get a foamgun, I'd never wash my good vehicles without one. Yeah, it makes *that* much of a difference. You can get more money, but you can't put the paint back on the car.



No matter how careful I am with the two bucket method, and I can be mighty careful ;) there's no comparison with using a foamgun. The constant lubrication and flushing makes all the difference. You'll notice that your rinse bucket has *far* less dirt in it. And you'll notice your paint has far less marring in it too ;)
 
Any good links to foam gun useage washing threads so I can decide wether to spend some money please.



Cheers



Rich
 
Oooh all this foam gun talking is very exciting...if they make *that* much difference then i don't think i mind spending the money on one...if it means less paint marring and less use of more abrasive products then so be it!
 
http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=61173&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55798&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=51027&highlight=foam+gun





http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=54583&highlight=foam+gun





http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53528&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53131&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53139&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=52692&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=52623&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47277&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=50258&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48225&highlight=foam+gun





http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47983&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47773&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=46863&highlight=foam+gun



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=46387&highlight=foam+gun





This one in particular is great,



http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35232&highlight=foam+gun
 
Accumulator said:
...there's no comparison with using a foamgun...You'll notice that your rinse bucket has *far* less dirt in it.
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That was something that surprised me, how clean the rinse bucket stays when using the foam gun, really an indicator that the dirt is coming off the car before the mitt touches it.
 
Just a thought/caveat- you *do* have to give some thought to how you're gonna use the foamgun, it's not like it automatically results in less marring. Don't want people to have unrealistic expectations- there *is* a learning curve and it's a different concept compared with how most people wash things.



Just keep thinking "dislodge and flush"; the idea is to *not* get the dirt caught up in the wash mitt but rather to keep the mitt as clean (and well-lubed) as possible. It's dirt between the mitt and the paint that causes the marring. Use just enough contact to get the dirt loosened from the paint and then flush it off the vehicle with the suds. Rinse the mitt out same as you would with a normal wash method.



No foolin', for virtually everyone who's tried it, it really has drastically reduced the need to polish. I'm still waiting to hear somebody say it flat out didn't make a difference.



But it's a matter of the overall wash technique; if you just use it as a presoak (which is a good idea anyway) or as a way to get shampoo on the vehicle (which it'll do quite well), you're not gonna realize the full potential of the whole idea. And using a slick LSP (frequently) and washing before the vehicle gets too dirty are important considerations too.



And for those of you with nasty winter [stuff] to deal with, blasting the foamgun through a BHB is about the only way I've been able to get that gritty mess off without inducing some serious marring. But again, you can't just neglect the vehicle to the point where nothing's gonna work the way we're discussing.
 
I recently purchased a foam gun for my pressure washer in order to wash my car with the latest foam wash.Is this the type of foam gun you are looking for?I have been using this for some time now where the gun blast foam onto my car as a prewash removing all th grime ensuring that when i then use my wash and wax that i am not washing the dirt into my car and creating swirls.
 
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Nah, the foamguns under discussion (Gilmour brand) are different and so is the manner in which they're used.



Some of us are too :nervous: about high pressure wash techniques to use a pressure washer, but the general idea is sorta the same: avoid rubbing dirt into the paint.
 
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