Any of you use one? Thinking of a Kärcher K4 but not sure I want to spunk up £200 when I’ve managed with a hose, sponge and bucket for the past 30 years.
The chap that took the dent out of my bonnet recommended cleaning my four-wheeled Panzer with snow foam and pressure washer. Looks like it’ll save a load of time, if the claims have any substance to them.
Loads of stuff on YouTube about washing cars, mainly revolve around not getting swirls on the paintwork which involves the use of two buckets.
I generally only use the pressure washer when the car is particularly dirty - with many layers of wax on the paint the crap normally comes off pretty easily with just the hose.
Life is made much easier by investing time and money into good products. Wheel wax is awesome - I find I just need to mist the wheels with the hose, give them a spray of Muc Off (amazing stuff), leave for a minute then a blast with the hose brings them up lovely.
The worst thing to do is wash the car and then not dry it off - tap water leaves a lot of residue.
Using good products is important - a good wax is expensive but a small tub lasts for ages. As is a copious supply of microfibre towels for drying the car (Screwfix sell good value massive packs of small ones, but I would recommend a couple of large ones for drying). You can wax a car in two ten minute sessions (leave for half an hour after applying before buffing) with modern products so it can easily be part of a normal wash - make sure you get a wax that can be reapplied on top of itself - some don't.
I use the Dodo Juice Supernatural range of products and would recommend them. Monza do starter kits that are good value. The Dodo shampoo is quite pricey but one bottle lasts me over a year, including snow foaming maybe half a dozen times.
https://www.monzacarcare.com/product-tag/dodo-juice/
