Do you think this sucker is worth 40-bucks ???
I'm always breaking those cheap 5-dollar nozzles and I think I might be better off with an “indestructible” one.


http://www.calcarcover.com/product.a...o+Product+List

Shawn S

 

Looks good. I have this one. Griots owns me.

 

I use my powerwasher. I don't even have to use a sponge on the car. No dust whatsoerver!!! The first thing to touch my car is the abosrber to dry it!! I love my powerwasher!!

 

More info. on Powerwasher please.... You don't have to use a sponge at all.....?

 

yeah, i use one as well ... i have a karcher ...

 

Nice...But 100-bucks !!!!
I don't think so. :shakehd: :shakehd: :shakehd:

Shawn S

 

Isn’t a pressure washer a bit HARSH to use on a car ???
I have one, but I use it to clean the decks & sidewalks.

Never considered blasting the car with it.

Shawn S

 

yea, i would be afraid to dent a panel in my car using my pressure washer!
That thing will take flesh off bone!

 

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer wants a more powerful shower head and ends up with something like these that they use at the circus to clean Elephants

 

The ones straight from Poland...

Shawn, using powerwashers for your car is actually better than a regular hose, especially if your doing the engine. Just make sure you don't full blast it. Head on over to www.autopia-carport.com to learn more about it. They are moving the server right now though so it may be down.

 

well the one i bought you can adjust the pressure on it ... i have it set to about the same as a commercial "touchless" wash ... no problems yet!!

 

That is the exact same one I have. I have it turned up to the highest setting.....i just am careful about how far I keep it from the car. It is real cool. I rinse it down. Then put it on the low setting....at this setting it sucks in the soap ( i use some carwash soap with wax in it....carwash (as in the carwash)stuff, and then rinse it off at high pressure again. I take a small white towl and run it across next to a wheel well to make sure there is no dirt on the car before i start dying it. Then it is the abosrber and a nice soft cotton towel after that.

It is great for getting the brake dust off the wheels, cleaning the tires, wheels wells. I don't have to use any chemicals for anything.


Shawn you could use your leafblower after washing it and you will hve never touched your car at all!! Perfect!!

 

I'm sold

 

It's the best investment I ever made.
My car is wash and dried...perfect....in a half an hour!!

 

I thought of that, but I’ll have to consult with the Zaino God’s first and see.

Shawn S

 

$40 for a nozzle ? Cripes, i pay 5 dollars at home depot and i get 6 settings and it works like a charm.


Ya'll are getting taken.

 

Shawn,

My mother-in-law bought us two of those exact nozzles just for the hell of it because she swears they are the best nozzle she has ever used. I would have to agree! Absolutly no leakage what-so-ever and a shapable stream. You can drop them on the cement and they just bounce. They are heavy and solid and you can tell that they are high quality.

-Ash

 

and imagine ... my girlfriend bought it for me ...

 

Shawn, try a Costco store. $19 here in Memphis

 

real men use a pressure washer.....nuff said

 

its especially great on wheel wells and rims and nasty big splats on windshields

 

Well if it makes you feel like a man because you got a pressure washer then wait till you get a nice chip in your clear coat and you end up peeling back the clear coat from the pressure washer....LOL.. ouchie...j/k

Shawn I use a Nos made by a company called GREEN THUMB, it is black and has a rubber handle and tip, so you can slam it to the ground and still won't break... 8 bucks, cast iron guts.. light yet solid as a rock..

Smitty

 

i dont know about some of the CHEAP pressure washers some of you dudes have but mine has a few settings so i dont spray TOO hard on the paint...i always blast the shit out of the windows and wheel wells, but for the paint i turn it down a notch or 2 to prevent the aforementioned clear coat removal

 

What size power washer do I need to get?

Here is what I basically want to do. Get rid of dirt/moss in parking spots and on sidewalk. Maybe clean the cars with it. That's about it. Would an electric one be good enough?

 

At least someone knows how to use the search function. Hello 2002

Cant you get a water pressure to hook up to an air compressor? That would rawk.

 

a power washer will never wash a car like a sponge can

 

jimcol posted in this thread

 

same here

 

+1 here

 

thats the one i got, i'd never use it on the car

but itll clean the shit outta concrete

 

Which karcher to get?

 

I just used some tire cleaner and then pressure washed my wheels, they came out like showroom new. I used a small 1560 PSI electric one, they work nicely for the car.

 

Guy at work used a karcher on his teg and it blew the paint right off the front bumper. I will stick to a wash mitt & bucket. Pressure washer for my Pathfinder after a day's muddin' though!

 

Target has a fireman's type nozzle that I have been using for a little over a year now. Best thing I have ever used, and it cost me all of $10.

 

Am i the only one who uses no attachments

 

I found this How to select a pressure washer

 

No attachments is good for rinsing the car. I use a nozzle to get dirt off, then rinse the car without an attachment. Works really well, 90% of the water just sheets right off.

 

There is a lot of evidence that using high pressure (even from nozzles on garden hoses) breaks the water into smaller and smaller droplets as the pressure goes up, which makes it harder to dry off the car. If you look at water droplets after using the hose without an attachment vs. a droplet which has some out of a "jet" setting from one of the nozzles you can see that with the naked eye.

I don't use a nozzle either so there's at least three of us now

 

I use the nozzle to wash, and either remove it to let water sheet of, or adjust the nozzle to a setting which does an almost as good a job.

I definitely always use a nozzle to clean. The pressure works well to get crud off the car especially on the lower body panels, and bird crapp as well.

 

A WORD OF CAUTION!!!!

With using power washers.......be very carefull to inpect your paint ahead of time for cracks or chips....because if there are cracks and chips power washing might make it worst.

I have a power washer....but it is the industiral type with a massive motor and 2300+ PSI.... so personally i'm gonna stick with my regular hose and good old elbow greese