Does anyone know where i can find and buy that engine degreaser you find at car wash? The one that you spray on using the pressure cleaner lance.

Its simply the best degreaser I have ever used, it actually works many fold better than what i have bought off the shelf. its also acidic so it brightens alloy very nicely, but it does damage metallic paint.

Its also the only thing that removes bugs and gunk of the front of my car without me having to touch anything, spray on, rise off all bugs and crap completely gone.

me wants!

I've got a massive degreasing job to do and it ain't exactly small enough to take to the wash.

anyone can give me a heads up on what it is or if there is an off the self equivalent would be great. Or am I going to have to go to the car wash and fill some drums myself?

Cheers.

Hi Vlad,

Doesn't sound good if it damages metallic paintwork..
but it should damage all paintwork as I don't know if metallic paint has a different top coat..
I would think they would all be the same these days..

If used at a public washer it would need to be people friendly
and bio degradeable etc..

although its put on and taken off [with pressure]..

I think the bugs off , comes from the pressure of the water..
rather than then degreaser.. ??

so probably many degreasers would work with that amount of pressure.. ??

there are some expensive "green" degreasers about.. and not forgetting truck wash [which I've never used]
but have heard its good stuff.. so, should get bugs off too...

cheers

LEE

nah I just need raw degreasing power. I need to clean off about 1" of grease from the front half of the under body of a car, its one hell of a mess so I need strong degreaser and its cleans the engine bay super nice, comes up like factory new.

I need it as clean and grease free as possible as I will be doing some paint work in the engine bay. and I could do with a clean inside the doors too, pretty dirty in there.

when I said it damages metallic paint, mostly older metallics before clear coats came about but I still wouldn't recommend using in on the actual body work as it seems to dull paint and plastics, takes wax and oils out of anything oil based making it looks dull. And straight gloss metalic without clear coat, well its turns it white lol

I certainly wouldn't call the stuff "people friendly" get it on your hands and its does sting a bit.

Normally I can get the underbody and engine bay super clean in 10 minutes with the stuff, otherwise the off the shelf petroleum or water based degreasers need heaps of reapplications and physical scrubbing, its just plan crap and waste of time and money especially for the underbody.

the closest thing I have used off the shelf was truck wash, worked ok but still.


As for the bugs, no they do not come off unless i use the degreaser, my niece told me to try it, i was amazed, did it on my friends car, he was blown away on how clean it came up. I mean i can get them off mostly if I use the normal foam brush and scrub for ages over and over but can't get them off completely. the degreaser of the other hand.

Why not just ask at the car wash?


Smiley

Getting bugs off, Mr Sheen, magic, but it also depends on the paint finish as when I wash the Forester every thing comes off prety easy, the Holden Crewman I had, well that's a diferent storey, just about had to chisel things off that HOS

is it a pink colour ?? i buy stuff from repco that has acid it in comes in 4 l i will find a name for you

motogard 5 L i brought 4 when the where on sale at repco for 12 each other wise i think there anout 15 or 16 also says corrosive

I bought a 20ltr drum of degreaser from an industrial paint supply company, cant remember the name but it was the best ive used, it made my hands go slimy and peel the next day, but it strips most stuff quickly.

We use a pink coloured product called Rip Off at work. It is caustic, stings your hands, makes them slimy and makes your skin peel off the next day.

a scraper and oven cleaner works well , thinners or prepwash , paint stripper for really gunked up stuff but that might be getting too harsh

Get a bigger water blaster
The bottom side of all my running gear, whilst not an inch thick was at least half and inch and 40 years old. It was solid but still moist and scraping would give an arm ache very quickly.

I have a petrol gurney and I blasted 90% off then used normal degreaser from a pressure pack. Left it for 15 minutes then balsed again. Went through 2 cans and about 1 hour on the underside of the car but got back to factory paint in really good condition with no scraches or anything.

One thing to be said about grease pits of cars is they don't rust in those hard to reach places!

bigger water blaster?

how big do you want my pressure washer to be?

I found the best disposal method is dumping it in the grass at the back of the property. Just be careful with sparks