Detailing Chat & Questions Thread

[Hxrry]

Graphene wax an option? Look at Infinity wax 👍🏼

did great work on this

 

[imprezaworks]

Decent beads with the spray

 

[imprezaworks]

The bilt hamber cleanser polish name keeps popping up. Anyone used it.

 

[JamesBryan]

The bilt hamber cleanser polish name keeps popping up. Anyone used it.

No, but it's BH, so it's bound to be good.

 

[Gally]

It's fantastic. By hand or machine.

It reminds me of werkstat prime. Check on DW threads to see it's correction and filling ability. It also "sets" leaves a base and using one of the waxes it gives a tremendous combo.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah have been looking at reviews throughout the day ha ha. Ran out of srp so would this be a nice alternative?

 

[Gally]

Yeah aslong as your topping it. I love it as a cleanser. Cleansing is an underrated stage.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah I would be. This stuff seems good.

 

[Gally]

All SP stuff is good but it's the same price of the stuff made by true chemists in their own lab at BH. It's why every single product works.

 

[Ex-User (60778)]

Is BH autofoam ok to use as snow foam pre wash with a ceramic coated car?

 

[Adamm.]

Is BH autofoam ok to use as snow foam pre wash with a ceramic coated car?

Yeah just dilute pretty heavy. I do 200ml mixed into a 5L container and it still works well. I do it through a pump sprayer though so not sure what it'd need to be at for a snow foam bottle but it's 4% dilution ratio.

That said depending who you have the car coated by I'd look to see what they do. When I had CSL and Exo by Gtechniq I was using W5 as my pre wash for a year or so.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Is BH autofoam ok to use as snow foam pre wash with a ceramic coated car?

This is a really hotly debated topic on Detailingworld. Hear different things one day and other reports another day.

Used Autofoam for probably about 2 years now and im half way through my 2nd 5L bottle of it. Was all dandy and I found it to be really really good at removing dirt initially (compared to other foams that just look nice for 'da gram innit'). That said, its not reacted well at all to some Polish Angel stuff I had on the car recently. It properly murdered my top layer of spray wax. Was only 2 weeks old at the time. Just destroyed it. And that was at less than 4% PIR.

Ive now switched to a PH neutral one and its far less murderous than AF. Its worth saying that if my spray wax was less expensive, I probably wouldnt care 🤣

 

[Ex-User (60778)]

This is a really hotly debated topic on Detailingworld. Hear different things one day and other reports another day.

Used Autofoam for probably about 2 years now and im half way through my 2nd 5L bottle of it. Was all dandy and I found it to be really really good at removing dirt initially (compared to other foams that just look nice for 'da gram innit'). That said, its not reacted well at all to some Polish Angel stuff I had on the car recently. It properly murdered my top layer of spray wax. Was only 2 weeks old at the time. Just destroyed it. And that was at less than 4% PIR.

Ive now switched to a PH neutral one and its far less murderous than AF. Its worth saying that if my spray wax was less expensive, I probably wouldnt care 🤣

I’m not taking the chance. I’ll have to sell the nearly full 5L container… which one have you switched to?

 

[imprezaworks]

Autofoam for me is my go too for cleaning.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

I’m not taking the chance. I’ll have to sell the nearly full 5L container… which one have you switched to?

Entirely your call, dont take the opinion of 1 person on the internet as gospel. Im only reporting what I found on one particular LSP. You've also got to bear in mind that I had many other LSP's on my car and pretty much all of them resisted BH AF pretty well!

I should also have added that my other halfs car, coated by me at the beginning of this year, gets constantly dowsed with BH AF and it just laughs at me every time. Its not even a 'top shelf' million year coating either. I won it as part of a competition and its Pyramid Car Care coating and its brilliant tbh. Shown no side effects of autofoam at all.

Im toying with a couple of foams now. TBH its a bit like pissing in the wind because I feel like if theyre not somewhat alkaline or acidic, are they actually going to clean? Ive gone for Foamula 1 from Valetpro as theyre a few miles away from me so easy to get and I dont have to wait for delivery. Was pretty good but no comments on cleaning ability.

Maybe @Gally could step in here with his experience as im just a part time weekend warrior!

 

[imprezaworks]

I use 50ml per wash. No idea on the pir but it cleans well and i mess about with sprays etc after every wash so there isnt an issue degrading for me.

What I need to do is down size some of the cleaning stuff I own lol

 

[Jekyll]

Has anybody used BH auto foam and now BH touch- less? Be interested to see people's reviews on which they prefer.

 

[JamesBryan]

Has anybody used BH auto foam and now BH touch- less? Be interested to see people's reviews on which they prefer.

Forensic Detailing did a comparison video a while back.

 

[SC03OTT]

They did. It didn’t convince me to switch to touch less.

 

[imprezaworks]

 

[Jekyll]

I've seen a few videos about them with mixed reviews. Some say better, some prefer auto wash.

Was just wandering if people on here have used botha nd what they preferred.

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

It's fantastic. By hand or machine.

It reminds me of werkstat prime. Check on DW threads to see it's correction and filling ability. It also "sets" leaves a base and using one of the waxes it gives a tremendous combo.

Ive still got half a bottle of Werkstat prime I think

 

[Gally]

The king of cleansers mate!

 

[imprezaworks]

https://www.cliosport.net/threads/zaino-z8-%C2%A320-delivered.839592/

 

[Stay Puft]

I’ve always used about 250ml snowfoam in a 1l bottle and still found it to mostly do nothing 😂

 

[imprezaworks]

What snow foam as tbf most are just for show.

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

Bilthamber auto foam is the best by far

 

[_Tom]

Auto foam is the best bar none.

i also love their double speed wax. I did my mums A45 again on the weekend and sealed with Turtle wax hybrid ceramic spray. I’ve used this on my BMW and 3 months on it’s going strong. I’ve got no idea if it’s good but it lasts, gives good shine and beading.

 

[Jekyll]

Have bought some Touch-less to try. See how it is against Auto Foam.

 

[Hxrry]

Will have hose adapters in hopefully monday for anyone looking for a stubby gun kit

@TheEvilGiraffe

 

[riz]

32metre Auto reel Amazon Basics hose. It's actually really good

 

[Ex-User (60778)]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07T9FMSSP/?tag=cliospnet01-21

£35 end of August delivery but has been dispatched next day. This will do for all the new cleaning products.

Photo from Amazon review:

 

[davo172]

Can anyone reccomend a mild cutting polish that can be used by had not DA?

 

[imprezaworks]

More stuff. I'm addicted

 

[Hxrry]

Can anyone reccomend a mild cutting polish that can be used by had not DA?

Angel Wax Regenerate is a medium cut compound. It’s outstanding when using machine but also super effective by hand! I used it on a massive job the other day and it performed great; made light work of the areas the DA couldn’t reach!

 

[Jekyll]

Not really detailing products as such, but these are pretty cool keyrings.

 

[imprezaworks]

Any flex ones ha ha

 

[imprezaworks]

The graphene qdx is a great spray.

 

[riz]

Gyeon q2m ceramic detailer supposed to be Good

 

[_Tom]

What’s the best tyre shine about currently? I use Meguires endurance gel which is great but a little messy so looking at alternatives.