Mixing Card — Exact Recipes per Container

Print this and keep it with the kit. Everything is water + concentrate; add water first, concentrate second, swirl (don't shake foamers hard). NYC tap water is fine for all of these.

One product per container. The IK holds Touch-Less and nothing else; the Kwazar holds ONR Wash & Wax and nothing else. Nothing gets mixed and nothing gets rinsed between products — only after use, for storage.

Handy conversions: 1 oz = 30 mL · 1 tsp = 5 mL · 1 tbsp = 15 mL · 1 gal = 3.8 L (128 oz)

Quick reference#

Each container holds one product. The IK is Touch-Less only; the Kwazar is ONR W&W only. Nothing gets mixed, nothing gets rinsed between uses. The orange (wet) insert is now unused — keep it, it is the escape hatch if the trigger bottle ever fails on a bay day.

1. IK Foam Pro 2+ — Bilt-Hamber Touch-Less (dedicated)#

Insert: grey (standard) — this is the default, not green. Green (dry) only if you want more cling on a vertical panel, and for wheels. Fill ≈ 1.25 L · Pressure: 40 psi via Schrader valve (or ~15–20 hand pumps), never "max" — the factory relief valve is tared at 3 bar / 43.5 psi, so 40 sits just under it by design

2% is the ceiling, not a starting point. Bilt Hamber's PIR guidance is 0.5% for maintenance and up to 2% for very dirty vehicles. There is no 4% and there never was — an earlier version of this card carried one and it was wrong.

And the ceiling bites harder with a pump sprayer than with a lance. PIR describes concentration at the panel, after a pressure washer dilutes the draw with its own water flow. The IK does no such dilution: what is in the tank is what lands on the paint. So the tank number and the panel number are the same number, and 25 mL in 1.25 L is already at the maximum.

If 2% and a full dwell will not shift it, the answer is not more product. It is more dwell, more rinse volume, or a different problem entirely — tar, iron or bonded contamination, each of which wants its own Step 0 treatment rather than a stronger pre-wash.

Half fill (≈ 0.6 L): 3 mL / 6–8 mL / 12 mL.

• One 1.25 L fill covers a full SUV in thin, even pre-wash coverage — thickness is not the goal; dwell is. Chasing thick foam wastes product; the cleaning is chemical, not visual.
• Warm water in winter helps.
• Dwell 1–5 min, never let it dry, pressure-rinse thoroughly.
• At the bay, carry the concentrate bottle — not premixed solution. Refill the tank with bay water and add the dose there.
• Always fully depressurize with the relief valve before opening. It is a pressure vessel.
• Rinse the tank and inserts after use so it doesn't crust in the mixer. This is for storage, not for changeover — the tank never sees another product.

2. Kwazar Mercury Pro+ 1000 mL — ONR Wash & Wax (dedicated)#

Nozzle: fine cone mist · Fill ≈ 950 mL so it doesn't slosh out

One bottle, one ratio, three jobs:

That one mix does three jobs: curbside pre-spray (mist panels before the bucket wipe), at-bay drying aid (mist onto rinsed, wet panels, dry with a towel), and clay lube for the Step 0 reset.

Half bottle (500 mL): 7–8 mL standard, 4 mL lighter.

• Wet, not soak. 1:64 is the richer mix — it is the old "hot mix" made standard, and the trade for slickness is a higher streak risk on a hot panel. Mist lightly and wipe within a minute.
• If the windshield or dark trim hazes, drop to 1:128 for the pre-spray and keep 1:64 for the drying aid. That is the fallback; don't abandon the one-bottle setup at the first streak, but don't ignore it either.
• One fill is roughly one full-SUV pre-spray with nothing to spare. Bay-day planning, including the refill and the trigger-pull problem, is in the pre-wash guide.
• Shake before use (W&W can separate slightly). Keeps for weeks–months closed.
• Label the bottle "ONR W&W 1:64." Never use it on interior glass — W&W has wax in it. Interior glass gets plain ONR blue or glass cleaner.

3. Bucket — ONR Wash & Wax rinseless wash#

Bucket: ~2 gal (7.5 L) water over the Cyclone Dirt Trap · Media: Ultra Black Sponge or plush towels

For 3 gal: 1.5 oz standard / 3 oz hot. Dump and rinse the bucket after every wash.

4. Optional — plain ONR (blue)#

Clay lube no longer needs its own mix — the Kwazar is already at 1:64, which is clay-lube strength.