Yum Cars Citrus
Yum Citrus is a concentrated pre-wash cleaner designed to break down grease, grime, bugs, and road film before contact washing.
Key Benefits
- Powerful Pre-Wash Cleaning: Breaks down dirt, grease, bugs, and traffic film before contact washing.
- Highly Concentrated Formula: Can be used neat for heavy contamination or diluted for maintenance cleaning.
- Versatile Application: Suitable for engine bays, door jambs, panel gaps, rubbers, and exterior painted surfaces.
- Prepares for Safer Washing: Helps release stubborn grime to reduce the risk of marring during the wash stage.
- Dilution Flexibility: Easily adjusted strength for anything from deep cleaning to light maintenance tasks.
How to Use
- Choose Dilution: Use neat or dilute depending on contamination level and cleaning task.
- Apply to Surface: Spray liberally onto cool exterior panels, door jambs, or engine bay areas.
- Allow to Dwell: Let the product sit briefly to break down grease, bugs, and grime.
- Enhance with Foam: Apply a layer of snow foam over the surface for added cleaning performance.
- Rinse Thoroughly: Rinse away residue before moving to the contact wash stage.
PRO TIP: Focus extra attention on lower panels, badges, and panel gaps where grime builds up the most for a noticeably cleaner finish before washing.
Dilution calculator
Pick your container and your ratio, and read off how much concentrate to pour.
A foam cannon does not spray its bottle. It draws from the bottle into the pressure washer's flow, so a 1 L bottle can put 11 L on the car and the ratio in the bottle tells you nothing about what reaches the paint. Measure your setup once and the number holds for every product that quotes a PIR.
Nothing matches that. Check the product's own page for its ratio.
Common questions
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Parts water to one part product. A 10:1 mix is ten parts water and one part product, so a 1 L bottle takes 91 ml of product and 909 ml of water. A few brands print theirs the other way round, so check the label if a number looks unusually strong.
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Water first, then the concentrate. Pouring concentrate into an empty bottle and topping it up makes it foam over the top, and you lose some of what you just measured.
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Most diluted products keep for a few weeks in a sealed, labelled bottle out of sunlight. Write the product and the ratio on the bottle. An unlabelled trigger bottle is how the wrong chemical ends up on someone's interior.
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Panel Impact Ratio is the concentrate as a percentage of everything leaving a foam cannon, the bottle water and the pressure washer water together. It matters for snow foam and pre-wash only, because a cannon draws from its bottle into the washer's flow rather than spraying the bottle.
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A syringe or a measuring jug with millilitre graduations. Capfuls vary by bottle and by how full you fill them, and at 256:1 a few millilitres out is a noticeable change in strength.