Anyone Have Experience With Steamers For Washing Cars?

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shinetimedetail

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I have been looking at buying a steam cleaner designed for cleaning cars during the winter months but don't know if any of them are any good. I have looked at the Optima, SteamJet, Diamer and some other systems.



Does anyone use any of these that could give me so feedback?



Thanks for any help.
 
What does cleaning cars entail? Do you mean interiors? Exteriors? Steamers come in handy often as I've seen in the click n brag section but i've never really needed one yet.
 
So what is your goal on doing exteriors with it? I've seen some. Phenomenal results cleaning a license plate with a steamer but I don't think I've seen it used often for general outside detailing.
 
I don't see any benefits to it, seems slower actually and I'm not sure it would slow down the introduction of new swirl marks.
 
215Detailing said:
found it: AUTO DETAIL (PT-1) - DRY CARWASH using a Dry Vapor Steam Cleaner - AUTO DETAIL Car Wash - YouTube
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That machine is just bigger than the VX5000- So not very efficient for doing a whole car. It would run out of juice quickly.



The reason I am looking to do this is for winter months- You can steam wash a car in much lower temps than 32* Some of the ones Ive looked at are



7 car wash - YouTube

steam car wash machine - Optima Steamer - YouTube

Steam Jet Car Wash - YouTube



It almost acts as a light pressure pressure washer- It blows the dirt down but doesn't leave any run off and only uses about a gallon of water per vehicle.
 
shinetimedetail said:
The steamers I'm looking at put out around 10 Bars- Are yours around 10 bars also?
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Yikes, 10 Bars is what...maybe around 145psi?!? :eek: that's really something, similar to the old propane-powered steamer I used to degrease engineblocks back in the '70s. I would think that such a high pressure might even be too much for this; my big concern would be about having a sufficient *volume* of the output, not the pressure.



But FWIW, the ~89psi of the Daimer is a *LOT* more effective than the ~75psi of my other steamer. Kinda amazing how great the diff really is. I bought the Daimer because the other one just couldn't do certain jobs; that extra 15psi makes all the difference. So I would want at least that much. But FWIW#2, when I've tried that steamer on wheels it didn't work all that great for me. Very slow going, for one thing...just seemed like the wrong way to approach the job.
 
Accumulator said:
Yikes, 10 Bars is what...maybe around 145psi?!? :eek: that's really something, similar to the old propane-powered steamer I used to degrease engineblocks back in the '70s. I would think that such a high pressure might even be too much for this; my big concern would be about having a sufficient *volume* of the output, not the pressure.
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Yea there no joke!
 
shinetimedetail said:
But when you have salt on the car ONR will scratch the heck out of the paint-
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Really? I would try the warm onr mix in a garden sprayer as a presoak then. I don't live in the north so wouldn't know much about salt on cars.
 
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