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Product Description
EXTREMELY VERSATILE
It can be mounted on your roof rack, on your trailer hitch or you can freely store it in the trunk area of your vehicle.
LARGE CAPACITY
The enormous 14-liter pressured water tank means the Road Rinser is ready to shower, wash, and rinse anything you can throw at it.
QUICK AND EASY INSTALLATION
It comes pre-assembled for easy installation with no additional tools needed.
PRESSURIZE EASILY
Pressurize the Road Rinser to your desired pressure using the included hand pump or nearly any electric pump. Pressurized in seconds.
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3.6 / 5
16 source ratings
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Tacticooldood –
I do camping and fishing/crabbing on the beach and always need to rinse-off the salt-water and sand from my gear. Salt water ruins everything!I’ve been shopping and researching for the past 2 years for some portable camping shower system.I’ve tried the pesticide sprayer types that never have the CFM water output. They just wet things but really don’t do much to remove sand, dirt, without additional manual wiping, etc.The battery operated ones that you submerge into a bucket also are weak. It’s an additional cumbersome 5 gal bucket that’s sloshing around in the trunk that needs to be strapped down. Have to worry about batteries or make sure it’s charged before using it.Collapsible buckets usually don’t have lids or the zipper isn’t water proof. You can’t always find a faucet onsite to fill it so with the 5 gal bucket w cover, you have to haul water from home to the beach or campsite.The solar bag showers rarely survive…seams split, get punctures and utlimately leak. Some of these are $100s which is ridiculous.I looked at mini submersible pumps but you have to deal with hoses and power cords that can be a nuisance along with a bucket of water.There are other pressurized tanks that can be mounted to a roof rack or tow hitch, but they can be $280-$800!!!! And a few of them are only molded plastic….others are welded aluminum tanks and fittings.The Roadrinser is a welded aluminum cylindrical tank with air-fill valve, pressure release valve, water-fill cap, and a full-length welded aluminum extrusion mounting bracket underneath that allows you to attach the included brackets to either the roof rack of your car/SUV/truck or a standard 2″ tow hitch (bracket included).Also included is a great little shower head with 3 positions (flood, spray and mist) and a quality hose. Many other pressurized systems come with a cheap plastic garden spray nozzle and cheap hose ( I expect more if I have to pay $500 for them!). Included is a cheapy hanging mount attached to the tank that allows the shower head to be fixed and spraying from your roof rack. A solid/rigid clamp is to store the shower head when not being used. It works really well but needs some modification so the clamp doesn’t twist.Let’s not forget that the Roadrinser comes with a bicycle pump to pressurize the tank. I only filled the tank 1/4 full and pumped it up 20 times. The pressure was excellent and easily emptied the tank. Water pressure was easily 2-3x that of any camp shower system I’ve seen. I will have to update my review once I fill the entire tank and see what type of pressure is required to empty it.$179 is a no-brainer if you’ve been wanting these pressurized shower/rinsers…many use them for off-roading and camping.The ONLY negative(s):1) the cheapy clamp for the shower head while in use is plastic and can easily snap off. I’m going to machine a billet aluminum or steel version.2) the rigid clamp for storing the shower head …swivels about. Think about it, one screw through a circular clamp and that’s being tightened against a flat surface…so there’s not a whole lot of surface contact as it pivots about 1 screw. I plan on machining a plastic fitting that encapsulates the circular clamp and prevents it from swiveling.3) The tow hitch adapter comes with a hitch pin, but bot a LOCKING hitch pin. Lucky I already have one. However, even if the hitch is locked, you can still remove the entire tank with 4 screws. So I am designing a locking plate so you can’t just unscrew it. Anywhere you go with the tank attached, you’re going to run into some punks or homeless that will want to screw with what you have….which may also included cutting or yanking the hose off or evening peeing in the tank (LOL). Harder to do if the tank is on the roof rack. But again, there needs to be some locking device to prevent removal of screws like Yakima and Thule have for their racks.
mokiach –
It’s nice but it would have been nice to have some kind of solution to heat water for a hot shower.I suppose you can leave it in the sun, or fill it with water from a hose that is left out in the sun, or pour hot water into it. Maybe even drape it with a hot pad.It would be a bad idea to put one end of in the fire because there is a rubber gasket on the bib used to pressurize the tank. And I have a stick that heats water but it doesn’t fit into the tank. I guess heat it up first then pour it in.
cloudpunch –
I have one of the larger full sized versions of this that is meant to be mounted to a roof rack. That one holds 8 gallons in its very similar aluminum tank that operates very much the same as this one – pressurizes with any pump that uses a Schrader valve, open the valve, open the valve and spray away. The only major difference with this one is the size and some of the external parts might not be as robust – but they are all replaceable when necessary.This guy is small enough to hand carry, even when full. I consider it portable where the full sized one absolutely isn’t – that one is staying where it’s mounted. The ability to mount this to the included trailer hitch is absolutely awesome. As others have mentioned, due to its size it could easily become a target for theft, so securing it to the mount does become an issue as the included hardware (bolts and nuts) aren’t any sort of security-type or lockable, so something will need to be found or made. In the meantime, a cable and padlock through the handle will have to do or it goes in the cab of the truck.For warm water, these tanks are designed to be warmed in the sun. On a decently sunny day even in cold climate this will get warm and in the right conditions it will actually get hot. My full size tank has at times gotten too hot to use comfortably.As far as the size – 3 gallons isn’t much and if you’re not judicious about its use it will go quickly. If you’re using it to shower, get wet, turn it off and soap, turn it on and rinse. You can very carefully get two people relatively clean. That’s the trade off for size and portability.At the asking price of significantly less than $200, this is a good buy. Include a locking mechanism, and this goes from 4 to 5 stars.
Cassablanca –
The unit is well made and was fairly easy to install on the bumper of our travel trailer. We do a fair amount of boondocking and felt this would be excellent for it. It builds up pressure no issue, which we discovered as we drove in the sun, pressure naturally would build. It’s also quite attractive in terms of style and looked rather “rugged” and kind of cool, if that’s important to you.
egurgick –
Like the title says, it is a nice road shower, and it works very well, but the rails are of soft aluminum, and I almost stripped the one side while installing… Also, the supplied brackets are terrible and took forever to install. I can’t knock the product as it is one of the cheapest road showers available, I just wish the bottom rail was stronger and the mounting brackets were easier to use.Pros:Nice pressure and lasts a decent amount of timeEasy to use once you get it setupHeats the water nicely and doesn’t burn, at least with my experience.Cons:Brackets are cheapBottom rails can warp/strip if not careful installingThe shower head itself was fine, but the cord was short
Fredd0208 –
Good design but not really working, constant pumping needed, tried to fix the valve leak but still leaking..
Allen g. –
Ended up sending it back, smaller then I thought, but there was like 6 spots in the welds that under pressure leaked.