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Old 08-19-2007, 12:54 PM
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Who sells pressure washers for the home? I saw a neighbor using one on his driveway. It looked like he hooked his hose up to it and it just shot water out like a bullet. Just wondering, I'd like to use this to clean my motor bay at home. At home, I can wait for the car to cool off and take my time with it instead of having to spend all day at the car wash.
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Home Depot, Lowes, prolly walmart, and any other store like that. Even tractor supply company. They make some really strong ones though If I was you I wouldn't get one that was really powerful as it can and will take some paint off. Mine isn't very powerful but it works really well. Good luck and Good hunting.
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we have a 1750 which is good for most small stuff around the house, you can also widen the stream for the car and then make it smaller (stronger) for the engine bay...tats what i do.

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I got mine at Costco. It's got a Honda motor, which is the important part. It has three different strength nozzles, plus a nozzle for spraying soap. It worked really well on my composite decking and I use it to clean wheel wells and the inside of the wheels, but use only the lowest pressure nozzle. It's a 3600 psi unit, so i can actually cut holes in the driveway and etch concrete with it, so keep that in mind cleaning a car. I highly discourage you from using it for the engine bay though because you can push water into electrical connectors.
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i use mine on the engine bay not a problem....

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