How to Snow Foam Your Car - AMDetails Guide

This video is a guide on how to snow foam your car the AMDetails way. In the 'how to, PRE-wash' we talk about our snow foaming techniques and how they can help to reduce your snow foam usage and get the most from your chosen snow foam. AMDetails believe this is efficient snow foam method to use at home or at your professional car wash.

Snow foam pre-wash technique (pre physically touch wash such as your bucket and sponge or lambs wool mitt and 2 bucket method) used to get as much of the dirt off as possible without having to touch your vehicle during your car wash physically.

Your chosen snow foam is blasted out of your snow canon or snow foam lance on to the vehicle and left to work for a few minutes before rinsing off. It is in the application of the foam and in the removal that we think the key areas are. The application, in straight lines, will massively help to reduce overlapping your foam or repeating to cover the same area. Thus greatly reducing the amount of snow foam needed per wash during your car washing stages.

Rinsing from the bottom up will help you to focus that pressure washer on each area of the car meaning you won't miss any bits and leave the dreaded dirty missed triangle. Usually where people then shout ' You missed a bit' - Car Washing Pun.

AMDetails are an Elgin-based car care and detailing company. Elgin is a city in Moray - The Highlands of Scotland So please do bare with the accent. AMDetails are the Gtechniq Accredited Service Centre for the Highlands and Aberdeenshire. We also have our own Chemical range as demonstrated in the video.

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The vehicle we used for this demonstration is an Audi Q7. It's previously been treated by us with Gtechniq Crystal Serum. We had this Audi Q7 in with us for an AMDetails Maintenance Valet Gold. So after demonstrating snow foam application many times to get the finished video...... YES, we are cleaning a clean car… So please don’t hate.

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Alan - "I hope you enjoyed watching this one and maybe can adapt a few of the techniques to your wash routine. I would also love to hear your thoughts and differences in the comments below. Have fun detailing guys."

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[derekroft]

I had been using snow foam for a long time on all my cars and recently I started my own detailing business, as always you want to learn new things and when I first seen this video posted on YouTube I thought I'd skip past it, but I didn't and I'm glad I never! I changed my method of snow foaming vehicles to that of AMDETAILS and I have to say I use half of the product as I used too before. Good work guys and good on you for posted videos, they are really informative 👍🏻 keep up the good work!

[gse]

Abit late here i just bought a new motor and paid extra for a special paint work and a life time ceramic seal all done by the dealership. So i want to treat it right and they gave me a care kit and it contained snowfoam but no instructions. Thanks to this man iv got my self a job this weekend and know how to do it properly. 👍👍

[garethdavies]

i been valeting and detailing for about a year part time on weekends ... i find it so relaxing knowing you can bring that car back to life and make the paint pop .. i have learned so many tips and trick over the years like prespray the car first with a citrus wash or use a apc in with your snow foam it gives it more of a kick after you rinse ... keep up your hard work keep up the video's 👍

[neilglynn]

Would be nice to know what snow foam performs best and which spray attachments you use

[hcv]

Cracking video, made sure I watched and listened to it threw as I usually skip bits. I did the foam cleaning like you said most people do...going to try your way now as It all makes sense.

[AHandsomeman]

What a brilliant video. I recently bought a new car and as you do you want to have the best cleaning products, I’ll start here, I normally wash the car with an extended brush, I was told don’t do that as it scratches the paintwork, looking closer, it did, on my wife’s car, anyway, started with Demon foam then rinse then 2 bucket wash rinse with a Meguiars wash mitt, what a shift that is! Was recommended Autosmart foam, what I’m looking to do is this, rinse with cold from the Karcher I have, spray the foam, then wash off with the karcher leaving me to either apply autoglym water wax or just dry the car with a micro fibre towel, I’m looking to basically cover with foam rinse and go, can you recommend a product that will allow this?

[derekgordon]

Great video Alan 👍👍👍👍








But I still prefer my method of winging a whole bottle on and rinsing erratically

[MarcByramPhotography]

Interesting ....I always foam from the bottom and wash off from the top ...I will try going in the same direction for both ...your method looks longer overall  but possibly more productive ..so I will give it a go ...thanks for sharing   :-)

[FunnyBoysFilms]

I’ve got Sahara sand residue on my car I’ve pressure washed it with just water twice and then used Glym snow foam and it’s still there. How do I get rid of it !

[scottmarshall]

Hi guys. Quick question re snowfoam. What types do you have? Do you have ph neutral for paintwork safety and/or a different one to strip wax/sealant? Is it non caustic or high alkaline? I'm confused!! What do you recommend?

[detailingportal]

Enjoy your videos :) Have started DIY Detailing and I am documenting it on YT and my site.

[MYD]

Hi guys, I want to start cleaning my car properly now instead of how I used to clean it before with just a hose, sponge and soap. I've just bought a Vax 1800w pressure washer, the detergent bottle that came with it is quite small so I'm going to order a 1litre bottle, I wanted to know whats a good brand of snow foam to use? Bear in mind I'm a student so on a but of a budget haha, I've heard demon shine is good?

[critical_mass]

Thanks!

So satisfying to watch and do

[lewisb]

Hi how much snow foam did you use and how much water did you use ?

[liamo]

Just started using snow foam to wash my car. Just wondering do i need to shampoo my car after snow foam.

[acke]

FINALLY, someone that has got it right-!!!!

You should rinse from the bottom to the top.

The foam covers the suface to loosen up the dirt and contain it.

When doing a touchless pre wash the high pressure beam works like a brush and when rinsing, it carries the dirt away. The beam actually shoots away the foam containing the dirt. That's why you shoukd rinse from the bottom.

When rinsing from the top first the water runs down and rinses away the foam of the lower parts without the high pressure beam hitting the foam and dirt as supposedly.

And also, without the foam covering unrinsed parts, it's easy to miss a spot when you can't see where you have rinsed.

Starting from the bottom rinsing horisontally line by line working yourself up, you'll always keep track where to rinse.

Yes, rinsing from bottom to the top takes more time and water, but this is the way professionals do for the reasons stated above.

When you hand wash a car you remove the dirt mechanically and then there's no reason to rinse from the bottom to the top. Then off course it's much more efficient to rinse from the top.

There's a big difference.

[juanchoja]

I have been thinking that unless the car is quite dirty, a snow foam wash with the microfibre mittens like shampoo was the way to go if you don't want to strip the wax away, if I use the sow foam and shampoo, should I have to wax?

[rupertevans]

Do you unplug the water hose from the karcher when you plug on the snow foam bottle?

[jj]

Do you also shampoo wash the car after snow foam use? I seem to get conflicting views when researching

[lockergr]

So is there any point in snow foaming if you don't have a pressure washer? City water pressure is regulated and so it's really low. I'm trying to figure out how I might be able to increase my pressure because I don't have a garage, and can't have a pressure washer.