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    car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Just quick question, doing the two bucket wash. Does it matter if you put the soap before the water, during the water or after wards? I usually pour it slowly while water gets in bucket. I don't do it before thinking it sinks to the bottom and same with after. But lot of soap studs build while doing it during so not sure what most do and if its a preference thing.. I don't wanna stir as much either. Guess best and quickest routine i'm looking for.

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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Quote Originally Posted by animescreen View Post
    Just quick question, doing the two bucket wash. Does it matter if you put the soap before the water, during the water or after wards? I usually pour it slowly while water gets in bucket. I don't do it before thinking it sinks to the bottom and same with after. But lot of soap studs build while doing it during so not sure what most do and if its a preference thing.. I don't wanna stir as much either. Guess best and quickest routine i'm looking for.
    Soap last or you will get a ton of suds overflowing your bucket. After pouring in your soap, blast it with a strong stream of water..this will mix the soap and create suds.

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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Useally fill the bucket between 3-4 gallons of water and put in the car soap. When I'm done with the prewash foam and PW clean rinsing it I activate and suds it up with the PW and starts to wash. I don't like too much of suds from the wash solution and this suits me with doing this way. The car soap gets thoroughly desolved when doing this. It's not much of water added either from the PW and it goes fast.

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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Water first then soap. If you don't you end with way too much suds.
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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    i fill the bucket about 3/4 of the way and then add the soap...

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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Quote Originally Posted by pro 4x View Post
    Water first then soap. If you don't you end with way too much suds.
    Do you then mix the water ?


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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Quote Originally Posted by animescreen View Post
    Do you then mix the water?
    Here’s a Mike Phillips tutorial video that,
    IMO, covers all aspects that are needed to
    accomplish the task of properly washing
    your vehicle—from Alpha to Omega:




    Also, to share this car washing
    information in written form:

    -On July 9th, 2008, Mike Phillips posted
    the following on Meguiar’s online forum.

    (I’m pretty sure it’s archived, somewhere,
    here on AGO.)

    “Fill your soap solution bucket with water first
    and then add the soap and mix it around with
    your hand. Why? If you measure out enough
    soap for 4-5 gallons of water, then you need
    4-5 gallons of water to dilute the soap into,
    follow me?

    If you pour the soap into the bottom of an
    empty bucket and blast it with water, you will
    get a bucket with about 1-2 gallons of water
    and the rest will be suds. Now your dilution
    levels are all whacked-out and you're using
    too strong of a soap solution.

    The goal is to have a full bucket of water with
    the soap equally dispersed into the water. If
    you can accomplish this, you can easily create
    suds after the fact with a quick blast of water
    or by using your fingers to agitate the soapy water.”


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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Nice to know. I bought his book but didn’t finish yet lol


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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    Quote Originally Posted by animescreen View Post
    Do you then mix the water ?


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    Yes. 3/4 fill with water. Add soap. Top off with water.
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    Re: car soap before during or after 3-5 gallon of water?

    I fill most the way with water, add my soap, stick my pressure washer nozzle in to the water and spray it while kind of moving it around, and then pull it out and spray the water for a second for some sick sudsy action.

    I don’t really think it matters a ton, that’s just how I do it.


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