Cost: £29.99
Date of Review: 9/2/2025
The Sales Pitch from Hydro:
Introducing our Hydro SnowFoam Sprayer. Crafted to make life easier. Coming with a Pre Wash Adaptor & Snow Foam Adapter. You can use this 1 bottle to apply pre wash, cover your car in snow foam, clean your alloys + more. Simply fill, pressurise & spray. 2L barrel, with measurement markings, spare seals + tubes to ensure a long lifespan.
Source: https://hydrouk.co/collections/accessories/products/hydro-spray-bottle
What You Get:
A two litre bottle in a box with some additional attachments.
Product Description:
This is a large pump up pressurised detailing bottle. It comes with a two nozzles, one for snow foam and another more of a jet spray for ‘Pre’. It says in the advertising there is a spare tube, this was not in the box. There was a plastic insert which can give a more direct jet, or another insert that will give a finer misting.
I bought two of these bottles as a special offer bundle of two bottles, ‘Pre’ and ‘Snow’ at £55 instead of £70, each bottle had a nozzles already attached to the bottles.
The brass and red tip is for the snow foam, the plastic and silver is for the pre wash or jetting nozzle. The nozzles are simple enough to swap over. There are also two red small filters which fit inside the fine spray plastic insert. The image below shows the jetting insert with a single hole.
The bottle is a sturdy plastic design with a couple of marks on the side for 1lt, 1.5lt and 2ltr. The handle is plastic and feel strong enough to hold the bottle without distorting. The tigger is a press down action to spray. Within the trigger there is a silver slide which if pressed forward will lock the spray trigger down to continue spraying.
The plunger on top is a simple pump up and down. There is an overpressure or de-pressure toggle to lift up to release the air before unscrewing.
To screw the handle onto the bottle takes a good number of turns giving the feeling of safety that it won’t pop off under pressure. There is a fairly rigid tube which sits in the concave bottom of the bottle which almost has a weighted end.
Near the neck of the bottle is a side filler with some markings for measuring.
Although this is a nice touch, you will need to be there all day measuring out 20ml at a time. With that in mind, I can’t really see the point as you fill the bottle from the top and screw the handle on.
Both nozzles are made of metal and are the ‘quality’ parts of the bottles. The snow foam fitting is brass with a plastic tip. You can adjust the angle of the snow foam to be any angle you like, by undoing the collar, twisting the red plastic nozzle to where you want and then retighten.
You can adjust the ‘Pre’ nozzle to a jet or spray by loosening the collar.
Instructions:
There are many videos from Hydro themselves on how to use the bottles on their website and YouTube. There are also other reviewers on YouTube discussing these bottles.
Dilute the product as required into the bottle. Tighten the top handle and side filler cap (if used), then pump up and down via the plunger to increase the pressure inside the bottle. Once you feel some strong resistance you have will have enough pressure to start the spraying, pretty basic and simple stuff.
To undo the top, lift the smaller plunger to release any excess pressure first.
After use rinse out the bottles.
Testing Environment:
Overcast and chilly day, there wasn’t any sun and wind was nominal. Both ‘Pre’ and Snow’ from Hydro were tested in their own bottles.
Application:
Select the bottle or tip you want for the pre wash or the snow foam.
Below are both of my bottles; ‘Pre’ is on the left, and ‘Snow’ is on the right.
One bottle for the ‘Pre’ was fine and sprayed consistently.
The other bottle sprayer is faulty!
I ordered my bundle of bottles and product on 7th Jan 2025 and only got to use them today, 9th February 2025. After delivery and first time of using the bottles it’s thirty days. There is a 30 day guarantee on their website as below:
UK consumer statutory laws state that I would expect the product(s) to be of merchantable quality. I hadn’t used the bottles due to poor weather and today was the first day I had to chance to try them out. They are not of merchantable quality.
I have emailed them today with details of my order number and details of the fault. I shall see just how good their customer service is, watch this space for updates.
There are been numerous reports on detailing forums and reviews on YouTube reporting the same issues of pressure leaks from the seals on these V2 bottles, even the plunger breaking.
My bottle would pump up to pressure with some effort, and within five seconds or so without using the trigger, you can hear a hissing coming from under the trigger on the handle where the air is escaping. Others have reported the handle to bottle top are leaking and hissing or the side filler cap leaking and hissing.
Almost instantly after the pressure was built up and started spraying, no more than a second or so of use, the spray turns into a spitting pathetic dribble, I tried to capture it one handed here below.
If you walk around spraying the car and constantly keep pumping the pressure, while having the finger on the trigger you can get a spray out. But, as the product gets applied more vigorous pumping is needed to keep that pressure up.
It’s worth noting that the plunger has a slight water resistant white grease for the plunger. The sealing gaskets seem flimsy and I imagine after prolonged use and tightening they will wear out and not seal fully.
Each bottle has some slight moisture inside which sort of says that they were tested or checked before shipping. Quite what that testing or quality control was is up for debate or the process needs reviewing!
The plunger doesn’t feel very robust and suspect it will break from stress eventually.
Removing:
N/A
Results:
When one of the bottles worked it was efficient and did the job.
The faulty bottle did produce a nice spray foam when you could get enough and maintain pressure in the bottle to make it work.
The nozzles feel nice quality and bottle is thick enough. The handle seems robust enough. The sealing and moving parts lets these bottles down.
Rating:
This will be difficult as two products the same – one working one not!
I could give a good score for a working bottle, and ignore the faulty one. But as there are reports of issues I will have to rate on the faulty bottle. If I had bought one and it was the faulty one, then the review would have been on that faulty bottle anyway.
1 out of 10
Ease of use – 8 out 10
Quality – 1 out 10
Conclusion:
Potential for a good bottle, but I don’t have confidence in the product. it’s very easy to use, and the attachments are simple to swap. Spares of the filter and insert are a nice touch. There was no extra tube as stated on the website, not that that is a problem.
Nice idea for a lockable trigger for continued spraying, but the time between spraying and re-pumping makes it a little pointless.
There is a huge amount of hype around these bottles on social media which prompted me to buy these bottles with my own hard earned money. I’m a bit hacked of with the bottles and the products that came with them, parting with £55 in one is bitter pill for a faulty product.
I have other spray bottles that are far superior and i would strongly suggest looking at those which are a comparable price. You don’t always get what you pay for!
For detailing this is a no go product, but I suspect I will use the working one for spraying plants, but not my cars.
Would I recommend it? NO
Would I buy it again? NO
Update: 19/2/2025
I messaged Hydrouk on the 9th February 2025 via their website ‘Contact Us’ page. I filled in the details and to fair a day later they responded, wanting the order number, even though I put it on the details of the contact page! However they wanted a video of the faulty bottle as evidence. There was about ten emails in total, which went back and forward, including the ones that I said the video is to big to send via email. They said it will, and of course it didn’t. Eventually they did review the video via a file transfer site that I sent them the link to.
An email then arrived to say that a new bottle had been shipped out to me free of charge. Two days later it had arrived. The new bottle now works as it should.
In respect of the replacement I can’t complain, but I can moan a bit about the process. Having to video the bottle not working and send a 134mb,18 second video was a pain.
Would I change the rating of the bottle now?
NO. It’s still not a great bottle, but it works for now, how long it will last for is up for debate. There are other makes of spray bottle out there which are much better and comparable prices.
