How to use the detergent inlet thingy on my Karcher

[XG332]

I have a Karcher, no idea which one. But it has the little clear tube and filter on the front for adding wash fluid.

How do i use this?

oli

[pinchmeimdreamin]

XG332 said:

I have a Karcher, no idea which one. But it has the little clear tube and filter on the front for adding wash fluid.

How do i use this?

oli

Place clear pipe in detergent bottle and away you go.

[volturb40]

I would imagine you would twist your lance so its at low pressure put your chem pipe into your bottle and if theres a knob for adjustment of chemical percentage turn it to what ever you want

[XG332]

i had a go with it in a bottle to no luck, i may dig out the book.

[littleredrooster]

Mine has never worked either......let me know how you get on.

[MrLou]

Mine doesn't work with the high pressure lance fitted. At low pressure it's fine.

This is either by design, or mine is faulty, I reckon it's by design.

ETA: It's nice to be able to use the word 'lance' without worrying about the context.

Edited by MrLou on Thursday 27th May 20:27

[apguy]

I struggled with this at the weekend.

I read the destructions and by trial and error also figured out that it only works on mine when you have the brush attachment on it. No amount of twisting on the lance attachment, which is supposed to provide detergent at the lowest pressure, would make it flow.

Bunch of ar*e product design.

[WhoseGeneration]

volturb40 said:

I would imagine you would twist your lance so its at low pressure put your chem pipe into your bottle and if theres a knob for adjustment of chemical percentage turn it to what ever you want

This, mine works, the nozzle on the lance end has two positions, one low, for the detergent mix and the other high for water only.
Mine doesn't have % adjuster, so I mix the detergent with water first in a five litre container.

[mat205125]

apguy said:

I struggled with this at the weekend.

I read the destructions and by trial and error also figured out that it only works on mine when you have the brush attachment on it. No amount of twisting on the lance attachment, which is supposed to provide detergent at the lowest pressure, would make it flow.

Bunch of ar*e product design.

quite possibly because with the lance you'd have nothing more than a high pressure fake snow machine

[Richard-G]

as said, keep it on low pressure and bobs your mothers brother. Or you could get a foam lance like a real wash nazi

[miniman]

You need one of these:

[Richard-G]

miniman said:

You need one of these:

not to forget 6 buckets full of harvested gypsy tears....

[Silent1]

Twist the lance to low pressure and make sure the 'filter' on the clear tube is set to max, when it's set to minimum it wont pull through much if any detergent.

ETA. Twist the filter to adjust it.

Edited by Silent1 on Thursday 27th May 23:41

[XG332]

Silent1 said:

Twist the lance to low pressure and make sure the 'filter' on the clear tube is set to max, when it's set to minimum it wont pull through much if any detergent.

ETA. Twist the filter to adjust it.

Edited by Silent1 on Thursday 27th May 23:41

will let you know tomorrow as its night time and the neibours would give me some looks if i washed the car now.

[miniman]

Richard-G said:

miniman said:

You need one of these:

not to forget 6 buckets full of harvested gypsy tears....

Sounds like you're not an advocate of detailing then

[SLacKer]

To solve this problem get a bin and throw Karcher into it.

[bin]

Miniman - what is the part name, number for the Karcher liquid soap attachment? Thanks, Bin