Best Pump Sprayer for waterless and rinseless wash
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OMG!
I highly recommend using ear protection with the IK E Foam Pro 2. It sounds like a jack hammer.
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If you want the best sprayer for waterless and rinse-less washing I would suggest taking the deep dive down the 1 and 4+ gallon battery sprayers for lawn care. When you do you will find that they also customize then using broadcast sprayer nozzles like the "TeeJet" brand. This allows for specific spray pattern and amount based on PSI as well. So using battery sprayers that maintain the PSI will allow real accurate and constant use.
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In another thread I suggested that my garden sprayer would make a great rinseless sprayer, and even though that one wasn't available anymore, I found one that seemed to be virtually identical for $90. It then went down to $75, then up to $100, and of course now is no longer available. The beauty of that kind is it has a diaphragm pump, so as you note, the pressure is constant. Downside is chemical compatibility could be a problem if you wanted to use more aggressive pre-sprays.If you want the best sprayer for waterless and rinse-less washing I would suggest taking the deep dive down the 1 and 4+ gallon battery sprayers for lawn care. When you do you will find that they also customize then using broadcast sprayer nozzles like the "TeeJet" brand. This allows for specific spray pattern and amount based on PSI as well. So using battery sprayers that maintain the PSI will allow real accurate and constant use.
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Also Optimus got the EGO garden sprayer, I'm not sure if he reviewed it yet.
Another key thing for this thread, is the OP is in New Zealand, where his product availability is a lot different than here in the US.
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Will do. It's a foamer. I'm not sure there is a sprayer model? I think this came up during TRCma and IK said you'd put a sprayer tip on it and remove the aeration link from the pickup tube to use it as a sprayer.
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I got my electric sprayer in 2022 and it's still working without issues. I don't think I've ever recharged it since the initial charge and it's still at like 60%.
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Not that this helps the OP, but Clean Garage sells nozzle kits for the "2" that allow you to change one to the other. TRC was selling them also, I think.
That's incredible.
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I've had both off my Xiaomi compressors for quite a while and zero issues out of both. No regrets and they're attached to my Foam Pro 12 and Multi Pro 12 and give me all the benefits of IK's extremely pricey compressor.
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If you want the best sprayer for waterless and rinse-less washing I would suggest taking the deep dive down the 1 and 4+ gallon battery sprayers for lawn care. When you do you will find that they also customize then using broadcast sprayer nozzles like the "TeeJet" brand. This allows for specific spray pattern and amount based on PSI as well. So using battery sprayers that maintain the PSI will allow real accurate and constant use.
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While I don't use it for detailing, rather weed spraying, I can highly recommend the Solo Eazy 206.
Solo Sprayers 6 Litre Battery Operated Sprayer – Eazy 206
With the compact battery sprayer EAZY 206 , SOLO introduces a whole new class of equipment. Not only the container with its six liter capacity and the large filling and cleaning opening is new. Above all, the flexibility that the EAZY 206 offers the user is new. It can be held in the hand by the...
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Solo offers a few battery powered sprayers, but the Eazy 206 uses a pump and not a compressor, that means consistent flow. The 10.8v / 2.5 Ah battery is removable and charged via a conventional battery charger. Solo suggest the battery will offer 170 minutes of continuous spraying, charging time is 2 hours. Tank capacity is 6-litres, the wide container opening makes it easy to fill, and build quality is excellent.
Certainly not a cheap option or very trendy looking, but the best thing about Solo products is that you can get spare parts, meaning you repair them should the need arise. I've used this one extensively with weed killer for about 2.5 years and it's been very reliable.
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While I don't use it for detailing, rather weed spraying, I can highly recommend the Solo Eazy 206.
Solo Sprayers 6 Litre Battery Operated Sprayer – Eazy 206
With the compact battery sprayer EAZY 206 , SOLO introduces a whole new class of equipment. Not only the container with its six liter capacity and the large filling and cleaning opening is new. Above all, the flexibility that the EAZY 206 offers the user is new. It can be held in the hand by the...
I have a 4-gallon version for your Solo Sprayer and it is great for lawn care and it could work well for car stuff like waterless and rinse-less wash.
Also something like this Scotts 2 Gallon Lithium-Ion Battery Powered Sprayer with Pump Zero Technology would work great and give people options for a reasonable price.
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Being in different countries or regions changes what options are available. I find that seeing and getting a concept help me to then have a better idea of what to look for. Same for this topic. The idea of using a "lawn weed sprayer" and then getting specific tips and things to modify it is outside of the car care stuff in some ways. But at the baseline they are really very similar.
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The more interest you guys have in the latest & greatest pump sprayers to do “rinseless”, the more it seems like you’re actually doing a waterless but are just in denial.
lol.
Stop & think about what you’re doing… It’s becoming more of a waterless wash than a rinseless, just embrace it, because if you were really doing a rinseless you wouldn’t be pre spraying anything.
I’ll go out on a limb and say the earliest bottles of rinseless wash never even mentioned pre spraying anything. Someone should pull out their old gallon of Meguiars D114 and confirm.
lol. Stop & think about what you’re doing… It’s becoming more of a waterless wash than a rinseless, just embrace it, because if you were really doing a rinseless you wouldn’t be pre spraying anything.
I’ll go out on a limb and say the earliest bottles of rinseless wash never even mentioned pre spraying anything. Someone should pull out their old gallon of Meguiars D114 and confirm.
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That also reminds me of the battery powered sprayers offered by the usual tool companies, which means you can use an existing battery system. For example, the Makita, Milwaukee and Ryobi have various options.
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I've actually gone in the other direction too. In that case, a Kwazar Orion for pesticide applications, again, it works very well in this role.
I often see certain products and tools that are freely available in the USA or Europe, but they are not offered here, or are prohibitively expensive to have shipping into in Australia/New Zealand. As you say, that then spurs me to look for suitable alternatives. THE most frustrating thing is how that product you were wanting ends up landing 12-months later, after buying the alternative.
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The more interest you guys have in the latest & greatest pump sprayers to do “rinseless”, the more it seems like you’re actually doing a waterless but are just in denial.
Stop & think about what you’re doing… It’s becoming more of a waterless wash than a rinseless, just embrace it, because if you were really doing a rinseless you wouldn’t be pre spraying anything.
I’ll go out on a limb and say the earliest bottles of rinseless wash never even mentioned pre spraying anything. Someone should pull out their old gallon of Meguiars D114 and confirm.
I think the lines have become so blurred as to what constitutes a rinse-less wash, water-less wash and soap wash that it's all melding into the same thing. Pre rinse with a hose, pre-foam, pre spray, multiple soaked towels, sponges, two buckets, one bucket, pre-foaming, three different pH points, drying aid, no drying aid, leaf blower drying, towel drying............................it ends up being a blurry line as to what you are actually doing.
Just this week, I cut out all the complications, mixed up a bucket of the no-frills ONR, a few towels, no second rinse bucket. And it was refreshing to put all of the "noise" aside and just clean the dam car and be done with it.
In any case, the end goal is a clean car. How you arrive at that result depends on what each person deems acceptable and safe. If that includes pre-spraying, then so be it. On the flip side, there is merit in pairing it all down to the basics.
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No, pre-spraying was never a "thing". I think there are two reasons for all the pre-spraying; 1)it increases the comfort level for people that are coming from conventional wash, i.e. it makes it more like a conventional wash, and 2)since what we do here on forums is iterate everything to death, I think this is just a way people reduce the risk of marring.The more interest you guys have in the latest & greatest pump sprayers to do “rinseless”, the more it seems like you’re actually doing a waterless but are just in denial.
Stop & think about what you’re doing… It’s becoming more of a waterless wash than a rinseless, just embrace it, because if you were really doing a rinseless you wouldn’t be pre spraying anything.
I’ll go out on a limb and say the earliest bottles of rinseless wash never even mentioned pre spraying anything. Someone should pull out their old gallon of Meguiars D114 and confirm.
I was never a pre-sprayer, but I've adopted it now in a lot of circumstances because...well...the cool kids are doing it.
Not claiming to be an expert but ive heard it mentioned many times “rinseless” washing doesnt mean no prespray/rinseing is necessary it means no post contact rinseing is necessary.
Maybe early rinseless wash didnt mention anything about rinseing but as new products develope often methods are modified. Early automobiles thought the best way to start an engine was with a hand crank to roll the engine over manually. That was fairly quickly modified.
As far as washing in general, waterless, rinseless, traditional shampoo & rinseing, the best method IMO is some form of the shampoo and rinseing. Its the safest (non marring) and does the best job. Might be a little more involved but to each his own.
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To expand on some of the recent comments, it is kind of crazy how complicated rinseless washing has become, a far cry from the early videos Anthony Orosco did to demonstrate ONR when it first came out.
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I still use it that way on up to moderately dirty cars. In certain circles, that’s heresy because I don’t pre spray. In others, it’s stupidity because I don’t pretreat and rinse before the rinseless.
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At the risk of repeating myself, when I started rinseless washing it was a winter desperation thing, and the car was usually covered in road salt grit. I would pre-spray with normal 1:256 rinseless, and it didn't really seem to do anything, so it seemed pointless, so I stopped doing it. Well, maybe I still did it during the winter, but not in the summer. Then later you notice some wash marring on the sides and wonder if that was from those winter washes, and well, it's done already.
Then you get a new car and you think...gee, all the other guys are pre-spraying, maybe I should try that again, and more recently for me it DOES seem to be doing something, whether that's my better sprayer, or better products, or higher concentration...but it seems like a reasonable thing to do, if the car is dirty enough.
Then you get a new car and you think...gee, all the other guys are pre-spraying, maybe I should try that again, and more recently for me it DOES seem to be doing something, whether that's my better sprayer, or better products, or higher concentration...but it seems like a reasonable thing to do, if the car is dirty enough.