BLACKLINE® PRE-WASH
✔ Lifts grime before your mitt touches paint
✔ Spray on, rinse off, no agitation
✔ Alkaline formula built for oily road film
✔ One bottle covers about 9 washes
Gone Before You Touch It.
An alkaline, high-foaming pre-treatment built to break down organic grime, grease, and oily road film before your mitt ever lands. Spray it through a foam cannon, let it dwell, rinse it off. The dirt that would have been dragged across your paint leaves with the water instead. This is the step that happens before the wash.
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What It’s Safe On
- Clear coat & factory paint
- Wheels & exterior plastics
- Glass & trim
- Wax, sealants & ceramic coatings
Why Blackline Pre-Wash Is Different
- Alkaline by design, breaks down grease a neutral shampoo can't
- Touchless stage, no mitt and no contact with the paint
- Dwells without drying, works the full 90 seconds
- Rinses away clean, leaves the surface ready for your wash
When To Use Blackline Pre-Wash
- Before every contact wash on a daily driver
- After highway miles, salt, or wet roads
- Heavy road film, bug splatter & oily grime
- Any time the car is too dirty to touch dry
Protect Your Paint Before You Touch It.
PRE-WASH LIFT
Breaks the bond between grime and paint so contamination rinses away instead of getting pushed around by your mitt. Less grit on the panel means fewer swirls in the finish.
TOUCHLESS TREATMENT
No mitt, no brush, no pressure. Spray it on, let it dwell, rinse it off. The dirt leaves before anything makes contact with your paint.
SOLVENT BREAKDOWN
Alkaline chemistry targeted at grease, oil, and bonded road film, not just loose dust. It handles the contamination a pH-neutral shampoo is formulated to leave alone.
Breaks the bond between grime and paint so contamination rinses away instead of getting pushed around by your mitt. Less grit on the panel means fewer swirls in the finish.
No mitt, no brush, no pressure. Spray it on, let it dwell, rinse it off. The dirt leaves before anything makes contact with your paint.
Alkaline chemistry targeted at grease, oil, and bonded road film, not just loose dust. It handles the contamination a pH-neutral shampoo is formulated to leave alone.
How-to-use
Follow the steps to get the best results from Blackline Pre-Wash
Make sure the car is cool to the touch and out of direct sun. Never apply to hot panels.
Foam cannon: 50 ml of Pre-Wash per 450 ml of water. Double it for a larger vehicle.
Coat the whole exterior evenly and let it dwell 60 to 90 seconds. Do not let it dry.
Rinse thoroughly top to bottom, then follow with Ultra Foam and your contact wash.
FAQs
Quick answers from the Blackline team.
It works before the wash, not during it. The alkaline formula breaks down grease and oily road film so it rinses off the panel instead of being dragged across it by your mitt.
It's what the dilution is written for and it's how you get even coverage. A pump sprayer works but needs a different ratio, so reach out before going that route.
Yes, used as directed. Work on a cool surface, keep the dwell under 90 seconds, and never let it dry on the paint.
No. Pre-Wash removes what comes off chemically so your contact wash starts on a cleaner car. Follow it with Ultra Foam or Wash N Wax every time.
BLACKLINE PRE-WASH
Blackline Pre-Wash uses a water-based alkaline surfactant system built to attack organic contamination. At a pH of 10, the formula breaks down the oils, greases, and road film that bind grime to your clear coat, converting them into compounds that lift and suspend in water instead of clinging to the panel. Foam boosters hold the product on vertical surfaces long enough for that chemistry to finish working, and the whole thing rinses away under pressure with nothing touching the paint. What's left behind is a surface that's already most of the way clean before your wash begins.
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