RAC 1400W Pressure Washer

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It is not designed to be a substitute for calling upon specialist detailing support or for bringing your car up to a concours-winning standard. Fortunately, you’ll already have access to some of the items required for this stage, but a few will need to be acquired.

Medium duty pressure washers tend to be a mix of high-end own-brand models and cheaper premium-brand models. As such, you'll find a confusing array of high-powered-but-basic models by garden machinery brands such as Stihl or Nilfisk, mid-powered Karcher, Bosch or Vax models with some choice of accessories, and high-powered and highly accessorised machines from Qualcast and Mac Allister. You’ll spend more time doing this, but each subsequent wash will be easier as a result. What items you needElectric pressure washers are more suited to domestic cleaning, while petrol pressure washers are designed for professional, large-scale jobs. The paintwork as such is not that delicate but it really depends on how you view your car. For Santa it is a tool to get from A to B. For others like Loony and me, it is more of a passion and pride. I dont go fishing, play football, spend hours in the pub so my car is not just a vehicle, it is my hobby too. So to that end I will wash and wax and polish it regularly and after spending a day cleaning it top to bottom, there is - for me at any rate - a sense of job satisfaction when it is done. Wheels: handy for heavier models. But, if you have lots of uneven ground or steps make sure you can still carry the machine.

Next, spray the lubricant onto the surface, remove the clay bar from the water and place it on the paint. Patio cleaner attachment: circular plastic hoods with a brush around the bottom edge. Stops you having to stoop and helps ensure dirty water doesn't spray everywhere. To choose the best pressure washer for you it is worth taking time to think about what you'll be cleaning, how dirty it will be and how often you'll use it. This all depends on how much you can afford and how powerful and durable you want your pressure washer to be.Fewer owners of Karcher pressure washers experienced faults within the first seven years of owning it - 8% said they had (sample size: 2,271) versus 16% of Nilfisk owners (sample size: 185). Faulty products will be replaced as soon as we are able to verify the fault and ship another to you. Used prior to waxing or polishing, it It will leave your paint feeling smoother and ready for a fresh coat of wax.

Hoses lengths vary from three metres, which is too short to wash a car; to five metres, which is an adequate length for car cleaning. Some of the cheaper pressure washers come with fixed nozzles that don't allow you to vary the water pressure. Detergent tank: we found built-in but removable detergent tanks more convenient than bottle attachments in our tests.Variable fan-jet: also called variable pressure lances, these allow you to vary the force of the jet from a focused point to a broad fan. But as you’ll need to use them less often, they should last longer, and therefore won’t break the bank.