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Title: Snow foam questions
Post by: MAW73 on 30 December 2010, 10:41

I must have been a good boy as Santa brought me a Nilfisk Alto C 120.3-6 pressure washer as a stocking filler this xmas.

Anyway I've never owned a pressure washer before so looking forward to getting to grips with it on the car.

With regard to snow foam, is it good practice to snow foam the car every time you wash is??
I generally wash my car every week.

Also what's a good snow foam product to use??

Thanks in advance.

Martin :-)

Title: Re: Snow foam questions
Post by: dragonfly on 30 December 2010, 10:47

Worth doing if the car is dirty.  Plenty of retailers/sponsors on this forum who can supply good snowfoam.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=173405.0

Title: Re: Snow foam questions
Post by: georgeandpeppa on 31 December 2010, 19:31

valet pro ph netural snow foam is good nice thick foam and pretty good cleaning to

Title: Re: Snow foam questions
Post by: Uruk Hai on 31 December 2010, 22:44

VP PH Neutral is a good foam and I do rate it but next time I need some I will be buying the Autobrite Magifoam, been hearing very good things about it and I gonna give it a go.

Title: Re: Snow foam questions
Post by: SI74 on 02 January 2011, 14:43

Get a PH Neutral one then you can SF as much as you want as it shouldnt strip you wax.

Hers some from waxamomo
http://www.waxamomo.co.uk/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=12

Title: Re: Snow foam questions
Post by: Buck on 11 February 2011, 12:52

Snowfoaming is worth doing each time you wash as the dwell time that this has on the surface of your car gives the chemicals time to loosen the debrisdirt that is on your paint.

when you rinse off, the car will be less dirty than when you started and importantly there is a reduced risk of you scratching/marring the paintwork as you have removed a lot of the contaminants.

A great new snowfoam that I am using is magifoam from www.autobritedirect.co.uk - it has a long dwell time and is the nearest I have seen to a touchless wash - I PW'd both cars last weekend, snow foamed with Magifoam, left to dwell for 15-20 mins and rinsed off - they looked virtually spotless although I didn't risk drying the paintwork only the windows.