soak/pretreat before washing

[Chargedx]

Does anyone pretreat a vehicle to be hand washed? Whether spraying with water or your favorite cleaning chemical. Is the soaking chemical home made or over the counter?



Thanks

 

[AMDin93103]

I hit bird sh@ with S&W and after a quick hose-mist of the nose a product (currently something out of my DetailKing sample pack) to release to bugs. Works well for me.



-Stu.

 

[Sveta]

...then I'll usually pre-treat the entire grill/air dam area, and the rocker panels with a bug/tar remover.

That sounds like a good idea. What OTC or otherwise product(s) do you like best for this? Thanks.

 

[Accumulator]

I rinse my vehicles so thoroughly before washing that it might qualify as a pre-treatment. I always spray any especially dirty areas with the showerfoam gun (Griot's Car Wash mix in it, just an eyeballed solution strength-wise) and let them soak before doing the regular wash proceures on them.

 

[tom p.]

If things are real bad, I'll mist the trouble areas with QEW before getting started with the manual wash routine.