Griot's Garage 51140 Foaming Sprayer

VERY happy w/ all the Griot's Garage items I've purchased, including this Brilliant Finish Foaming Sprayer.This appears well-made, w/ a nice pistol grip hose nozzle. The nozzle body is cast zinc w/ a black plastic overmold. The nozzle overmold has deep ribs w/ finger contours to help the grip. It has a standard brass valve w/ knurled threaded max adjustment knob w/ a standard zinc wire loop hold open bail. There is a molded hanging loop. The inlet includes a domed stainless filter screen.The pistol grip nozzle inlet and outlet both have standard 3/4-11.5NH Garden Hose Threads (GHT). The outlet has pull collar quick connect coupler. This coupler permits easy connect / disconnect to the reservoir / foaming nozzle assembly. The coupler fit permits gravity to maintain the cup on the bottom during operation.The cup capacity is about 5½ cups / 44 oz. My usage is to put about 3-4 oz of liquid car soap into the cup, then slowly fill w/ water (to limit foaming). The cup is retained to the foaming nozzle w/ molded coarse threads, about two full turns from attached to removed.The plastic foaming nozzle does an excellent job of quickly covering the entire vehicle in soapy foam.The cup capacity is ideal for covering an entire SUV, four wheels and wheel wells in soapy foam.

I have been reading about using a foam cannon as part of washing the car/truck. I really didn't want to deal with the hassle of getting my pressure washer out every time so I was looking for an alternative that just hooked up to my car washing hose. I bought this Foaming Sprayer and the Griot's car wash and finally got a chance to use it. Simple stuff, add 32 ounces of warm water and 3 ounces of the car wash to the sprayer bottle. Attach the nozzle to the hose and the sprayer bottle to the nozzle(quick release works slick). I sprayed the truck down with water first and then used the foam attachment. A pretty liberal application will use one bottle of the mix. I washed the truck with a bucket and wash mitt, you disconnect the sprayer bottle and the nozzle works just like a regular sprayer!

I really wanted an inexpensive tool for use in washing my cars. This unit works great at putting out foam onto the car/truck to soak in and loosen dirt/film. I still use a bucket / sponge etc. to scrub the cars, I'd do this regardless of what I use to apply soap. The two issues I have with this unit are:- attaching or removing the part holding the soap to the nozzle is very difficult.- the nozzle is not easy to stop the flow of water. By this I mean, when I release the hand trigger water still flows (almost fully), so I have to manually pull the trigger back to stop most of the water flow.I still like the unit and use it.

Well I was not very impressed with the Griot's Garage foam sprayer. It's bulky and unbalanced. The sprayer nozzle is stiff, binds up and leaks at the quick disconnect to the solution tank. Not typical Griot's Garage quality.

I used this with Griot's Brilliant car wash instead of my regular gas powered set up and it is a much easier and effective way to soap up the vehicle and then hand washing the soap off. It obviously will not be as effective as either an electric or gas powered pressure washer for ultra high foaming action, but it is perfect if you want to do a simple foam up of a semi clean vehicle follwed by a hand washing and wiping the foam off. The dirt pulling down effect seemed to work well and the soap maintained it's foaminess on the car as I worked my way around it washing off the foam.

Such a great way to wash my RV AND CAR

Make sure the part where the sprayer connects to the foaming canister is tight and seals properly or water will spray everywhere. It is a solid product.

First one arrived with a misplaced rubber gasket. Second one seemed to have the rubber gasket in the correct place but connecting the two parts was difficult. To make matter worse it began leaking from the handle after about 10 uses.