I just bought a Karcher K 2.360 at Walmart for $140.00. A couple of things. The gas ones are a lot louder and may require more maintenance. I couldn't have that, as it would bother my neighbors. The thing is, electric pressure washers put out high (more than enough) pressure, but a lower volume of water than a hose. My Karcher will almost rip the skin off your fingers if you put your hand in front of it with the high pressure nozzle. This is more than enough pressure for cleaning dirt off cars, but IMHO is not as good as a hose for rinsing soap off cars, because there you want more volume of water than pressure. Another thing to keep in mind is Karcher K series (all consumer electrics) will require a special bayonet adapter to use any aftermarket foam guns. AG supplies this adapter with their foam lance, but if you want to get a foamer some other place (or another non Karcher attachment - like a G Foam Gun) you will need this adapter. Some have found it at Home Depot as part of a kit, but my HD doesn't have it (and I could not find it on there website). I ordered this adapter from AG(plan on using it with a G Foamer when it arrives), and it's $15.00. If I had to do it over again, it think I would purchase one that came with some type of foam gun (like the green one at Lowes, as that type of foamer is more than enough for my own 2 cars). Karcher also sells a foamer(doesn't make tons of foam) and has a pressure washer kit that comes with a foamer, but you will likely have to get both online. I feel so far that the quality of Karcher is OK, however, everything on it is plastic. I've only used mine once so far,it worked great. It has (most of them do) a tank to add car wash, which makes a soapy spray at low pressure usage. The one thing that is nice about Karcher is that it come with an adjustable lance where you can change the pressure by twisting the tip. From what I've seen, comparable models come with either no pressure adjustment, or 1 or 2 tips to change the pressure. This makes changing the pressure easy on the Karcher. Also, and this is a big plus to me, Karcher conser models come with a year warranty, where if it breaks, you just cut off cord and serial number tag and mail it to them and they will replace it. So, if it breaks, this should come in handy. Just a few things I considered.
