Hot Shot - Car Wash Foam Soap

ROAD FILM COMES OFF. THE PROTECTION UNDERNEATH STAYS ON.

Hot Shot is a high-foaming, pH neutral concentrate that whips into dense, cherry-scented suds and holds them on the panel long enough to break down road film, brake dust and traffic grime. The foam isn't for show. It's dwell time, and there's real cleaning chemistry working the whole while it sits there, which is what lets the contact pass go quicker and lighter.

Being pH neutral is what keeps it honest. It cleans hard and still leaves the wax or sealant you already laid down exactly where it was.

It leaves nothing behind. No waxes, no gloss enhancers, no ceramic additives. That matters most on a prep wash: anything a soap deposits is one more thing your sealant or ceramic coating has to bond through. Hot Shot rinses to bare, clean paint, which is exactly what the surface should be before protection goes on.

On a mobile rig or a busy Saturday, that foam is doing work the mitt would otherwise have to do. Let it dwell briefly, then go straight into the contact wash while the panel is still wet.

Safe on paint, glass, wheels and trim.

Running a ceramic coating, PPF or a vinyl wrap? Read this first.

Hot Shot is fine as an occasional deep clean, and it's the right soap for prepping a surface before a coating goes on. But it's a cleaner first, and used week after week it will shorten the life of a ceramic coating. For routine maintenance washes on coated, PPF'd or wrapped vehicles, use Shift Soap, which is built for that job and nothing else.

16 oz. or gallon? The gallon holds the same soap as eight 16 oz. bottles. Eight of those would run $96. At $34 the gallon is about 65% less for the same amount of soap. Hot Shot is concentrated and a little goes a long way either way, so the gallon is about how often you wash rather than how carefully you pour.

Directions

Foam cannon or hose foam gun

1. Add 2 to 4 oz. of Hot Shot to the bottle, then fill the rest with water.
2. Rinse the vehicle first to knock off loose dirt and grit.
3. Blanket the vehicle in foam and let it dwell briefly to loosen the dirt and traffic film.
4. Follow with a contact wash using clean wash media.
5. Rinse thoroughly and dry.

Bucket wash

1. Rinse the vehicle first to remove loose contamination.
2. Add about 4 oz. of Hot Shot to the bucket.
3. Fill with water. The force of the fill is what activates the suds, so add the soap before the water, not after.
4. Wash from the top down with clean wash media.
5. Rinse thoroughly and dry before the water has a chance to sit.

Pro tip: Hot Shot handles direct sun better than most soaps, but work one panel at a time and never let it dry on the paint. Dried soap leaves the minerals in your water sitting on the surface, and those spots come off with a polish, not with another wash.

Worth remembering: foam buys dwell time, it doesn't replace the wash. What marks paint is grit dragged across it, so how clean your wash media is and how often you rinse it matters more than how thick the foam looked.

Pairs well with

• The Foam Thrower - Foam Cannon: 2 to 4 oz. of Hot Shot in the cannon is where this soap does its best work.
• Flat Out Wash Pad, 4 pack: safe contact media for the pass after the foam. Swap to a fresh pad per section instead of reloading one mitt.
• Smooth Move - Paint Decontaminator: mix it with Hot Shot in the cannon and you have your own iron-removing soap.
• Dreadnought MAX XL Drying Towel: dry it fast so you don't undo the wash with water spots.
• Shift Soap - Pure Vehicle Shampoo: the weekly soap once the car is coated, PPF'd or wrapped.

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