Shampoo Problem

[Louis Loppas]

I know ive probley mispelt the title and various other words, but the last two times ive used my turtle wax platium series car shampo its made a few suds and bubbles at first when fillin up but when i go to clean my car there are absolutly no suds or bubbles, ive even tried swithching to autoglym but had the same problem. im followin the instructions on the bottles and prior to a week a go the turtle wax shampo was making loads of suds and bubbles. what am i doin wrong, im using the same tap and bucket etc but dont know whats up? any ideas?

 

[Pistol Pete]

Re: Shampo Problem

you could try adding some salt. (hard water).

also if the bucket has dirt from previous washes, this will kill suds.

pressure washer ftw, blast for bubbles.

 

[ipodsandguns]

Re: Shampo Problem

Screw adding salt.

Suds are not essential so long as the water feels slick against the paint work.

 

[Coby.]

Re: Shampo Problem

I've read AG Shampoo isn't designed for Suds so don't worry about it TBH

 

[stu-172]

Re: Shampo Problem

you could try adding some salt. (hard water).

also if the bucket has dirt from previous washes, this will kill suds.

pressure washer ftw, blast for bubbles.

Eh?

Hard water does not form a lather easily with soap! Therefore making the water harder won't help, it'll make it worse!

 

[mattjk]

I'm pretty sure the fella isnt talking table salt

Add some water softner salt and use a pressure washer as suggested I do this and it makes it very bubbly!

 

[ipodsandguns]

I wouldnt reccomend adding any thing other then what you are to the water, suds are not essential.

 

[alex-avfc]

Give the bucket a good cleaning out and add more shampoo lol

 

[mattjk]

Softer water makes it noticably slicker too

 

[stu-172]

I'm pretty sure the fella isnt talking table salt

Add some water softner salt and use a pressure washer as suggested I do this and it makes it very bubbly!

Wouldn't be putting that near my car!

Lol!

 

[Michael172]

Buy some good shampoo.

On that note, my grandad used that turtle wax s**t, used to be okay but recently it stopped producing suds.

So i persuaded him to go buy some gold class shampoo and now he wont shutup about it !!

 

[Rhino172]

Buy some good shampoo.

On that note, my grandad used that turtle wax s**t, used to be okay but recently it stopped producing suds.

So i persuaded him to go buy some gold class shampoo and now he wont shutup about it !!

I prefer the Megs NXT shampoo to the Gold Class tbh bubbles up a right treat, much better than the AG and Turtle wax.

As for the OP I'd go with giving the bucket a good clean out, it's probably got a load of crap in there thats diffusing the bubbles.

Also whatever it is you are using to clean the car, sponge/washmitt etc, would help to give them a good clean

 

[RichCup]

NXT works well with hard water.

I wouldn't worry about the suds thing tbh, it's not important.

 

[alex-avfc]

Actually I've got some better advice than my last post lol, go buy yourself some Duragloss 901 online! Top stuff