Best specialized AC condenser cleaner for an auto?

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

Without getting too specific, for my late-summer road trips... I'll probably have the AC on. Usually I can get it running so well that even having the fan on setting "1," sometimes 2 or 3 if it is a blazing hot day, will work. So I want to clean my condenser, huge thing in front of radiator.

I've hit it with degreasers which I do not know if it has done harm, same with old fashioned spraying with water. No visible debris or bugs.

Is there a best specialized cleaner spray you use or method to keep it as clean as possible? I welcome all answers.

And obviously, I cannot remove it..

 

[skyactiv]

Google CRC Foaming Coil Cleaner.

https://www.amazon.com/CRC-Foaming-Cleaner-Aerosol-Yellow/dp/B009YO1FFM?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

 

[DemoFly]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/AC-Safe-Air-Conditioner-Foaming-Coil-Cleaner-AC-921/206740351

Foaming coil cleaner.

I spray it on and let it dwell, and rinse it off with a garden hose sprayer on the jet setting...

 

[HankHill]

CRC is good stuff

 

[skyactiv]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/AC-Safe-Air-Conditioner-Foaming-Coil-Cleaner-AC-921/206740351

Foaming coil cleaner.

I spray it on and let it dwell, and rinse it off with a garden hose sprayer on the jet setting...

Available local to many and less expensive than what I posted.

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

Mandatory dumb question... why not just degreaser even diluted, let sit, rinse with water?

 

[DemoFly]

Mandatory dumb question... why not just degreaser even diluted, let sit, rinse with water?

Would need to be manually agitated which is tedious on a condenser. The foaming cleaners do a respectable job of lifting and suspending the muck.

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

Would need to be manually agitated which is tedious on a condenser. The foaming cleaners do a respectable job of lifting and suspending the muck.

Call me crazy, but, Tire Foam also is a foaming cleaner..

 

[Malo83]

Spray it down with a hose everytime I wash the vehicle, nice and shiny and no bent fins.

 

[DemoFly]

Call me crazy, but, Tire Foam also is a foaming cleaner..

Completely different product, surface and contaminant.

 

[meep]

Home Depot has the stuff for household ACs, with the foaming agent. I’ve watched before and after pressures on a Freon gauge set and even if the foam drips off looking mostly clean, it made a difference in the pressures.

 

[Chris142]

I've used a pressure washer for decades. Just don't hit it sideways and fold all the fins over.

 

[spasm3]

I use tuff stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/Tuff-Stuff-350-Multi-Purpose-Cleaner/dp/B0009PCPNQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_3

 

[Falcon_LS]

I use Simple Green Foaming Coil Cleaner.

 

[Lubener]

Without getting too specific, for my late-summer road trips... I'll probably have the AC on. Usually I can get it running so well that even having the fan on setting "1," sometimes 2 or 3 if it is a blazing hot day, will work. So I want to clean my condenser, huge thing in front of radiator.

I've hit it with degreasers which I do not know if it has done harm, same with old fashioned spraying with water. No visible debris or bugs.

Is there a best specialized cleaner spray you use or method to keep it as clean as possible? I welcome all answers.

And obviously, I cannot remove it..

If you have no visible debris present, I would not use a cleaner. If it needs degreasing, chances are there is a slow leak present where the oily grease is.

 

[cjcride]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/AC-Safe-Air-Conditioner-Foaming-Coil-Cleaner-AC-921/206740351

Foaming coil cleaner.

I spray it on and let it dwell, and rinse it off with a garden hose sprayer on the jet setting...

Careful with the jet pressure a buddy blew some cooling fins out of his Ford radiator.
Gentle spray is safer