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A gloved hand steaming a black leather car seat, a cloud of dry steam lifting off the bolster

Steam cleaning

Steam Car Washing Machine Price in India

Three electric machines and one diesel. Steam at 180 °C from a 304 stainless boiler, two outlets on every one — and so little water that nothing runs onto the floor.

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180°C

Steam at the outlet

10 bar

Maximum boiler pressure

2

Outlets on every machine, each wet or dry

What a Steam Machine Is Actually For

It is not a cheaper pressure washer, and it will not replace one. It does a different job, and it does it in places a lance cannot go.

The water

Five litres, not five hundred

The electric machines draw 0.25 litres a minute at the gun. Twenty minutes of steam is five litres of water — so there is nothing to drain, nothing to collect, and no wet floor to walk a customer past afterwards.

The heat

180 °C does the work

Pressure and chemicals are how you clean cold. Heat is how you clean without either. Steam at 180 °C releases grease and sanitises what it lands on, which is why it goes where a lance cannot — the dashboard, the vents, the seats.

The boiler

Steam waiting, not steam on demand

Every machine holds steam in a stainless boiler under pressure, so the gun opens onto steam that already exists. A coil-type generator has to fire its burner each time you pull the trigger, and you wait while it builds.

Applications

What Steam Actually Gets Used For

Steam is not a cheaper pressure washer and it will not replace one — a lance is still the right tool for a mud-covered vehicle. What steam does is clean without water, which turns out to matter in six places on a car.

  1. A gloved hand steaming a black leather car seat, a cloud of dry steam lifting off the bolster INTERIOR
    01

    Interior

    Seats, carpets, mats, boot linings. Dry steam lifts what is ground into the fabric and takes the smell out with it, and because there is so little water in it the trim is dry enough to hand the car back.

  2. Steam directed into the grained trim of an open car door DOOR CARDS
    02

    Door cards and armrests

    The inside of a door takes more hand contact than anything in the car except the wheel — grained plastic, leather, a pull cup and a switch pack, all of it holding skin oil and dust down in the texture. Steam floats that out of the grain instead of polishing it further in.

  3. A steam gun working into the air vents on a car dashboard VENTS & DASH
    03

    Vents, dash and touchpoints

    The parts of a car nobody can properly reach: vent blades, switchgear, seat rails, belt buckles, the gap under the handbrake. Steam goes in and comes back out, and at 180 °C it sanitises on the way through.

  4. Steam lifting oil film off an engine bay, with very little free water ENGINE BAY
    04

    Engine bays

    An engine bay is the one place on a car where a pressure washer is a liability. Steam carries the heat that releases baked-on oil film, but almost none of the water that drives past a connector seal.

  5. A dark car's flank washed with wet steam on a brick forecourt, no water running off EXTERIOR
    05

    Exterior, where there is no bay

    Wet steam will wash the outside of a car. It is slower than a pressure washer and it is the wrong tool for heavy mud. What it buys you is the ability to wash on a forecourt, in a basement or on a customer's driveway, with no drain and no runoff to account for.

  6. A narrow steam jet between the spokes of an alloy wheel WHEELS
    06

    Wheels, arches and door shuts

    Where brake dust and road film collect and a sponge does not reach. A narrow steam jet gets between the spokes and behind the arch liner, and lifts the film instead of moving it around.

Steam is not a cheaper pressure washer. A lance is still the right tool for a mud-covered vehicle.

The range

Four Machines

Three heat the water electrically and one burns diesel. All four store steam in a 304 stainless boiler at up to 10 bar, and all four have two outlets.

Two outlets is not the same as two people working non-stop. Whether the machine keeps up with a second gun is a question of heater rating and boiler volume, which is what the middle two columns are really telling you.

First steam is time to usable steam from cold, not time to a boiler at full temperature. Hoses, lances and brush attachments on request.

ModelHeat sourceBoilerSteamPower supplyWhere it fits
KKE DR110Electric · 5 kW10 L · 304 stainless · first steam 10 min8 bar working · 180 °C230 V single phase, or 415 V three phaseOne operator. The only machine here that will run off a domestic supply.
KKE DR112Electric · 12 kW15 L · 304 stainless · first steam 5 min8 bar working · 180 °C415 V three phaseA detailing bay working all day, and two guns when the work needs them.
KKE DR118Electric · 18 kW21 L · 304 stainless · first steam 5 min8 bar working · 180 °C415 V three phaseThe most steam of the electric three. Two people, continuously.
KKE DR150Diesel burner · up to 4 l/h304 stainless · first steam 3–5 min9 bar working · 185 °C220 V single phase, 0.26 kW — runs off a generator or an inverterNo mains, or the machine goes to the car. Van-mountable.

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Which Steam Car Washing Machine Do You Need?

Answer the questions to find the suitable model and its pricing.

Question 1

How many cars a day will you steam?

Question 2

And in your busiest hour?

Question 3

How many people will steam at the same time?

Question 4

What power is there where the car is cleaned?

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KKE DR110

Heat source
Electric · 5 kW
Boiler
10 L · 304 stainless · first steam 10 min
Power supply
230 V single phase, or 415 V three phase
Keeps up with
One person, between cars

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KKE DR112

Heat source
Electric · 12 kW
Boiler
15 L · 304 stainless · first steam 5 min
Power supply
415 V three phase
Keeps up with
One person all day, a second gun at times

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KKE DR118

Heat source
Electric · 18 kW
Boiler
21 L · 304 stainless · first steam 5 min
Power supply
415 V three phase
Keeps up with
Two people, continuously

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KKE DR150

Heat source
Diesel burner · up to 4 l/h
Boiler
304 stainless · first steam 3–5 min
Power supply
220 V single phase, 0.26 kW — runs off a generator or an inverter
Keeps up with
Two outlets, no mains needed

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KKE DR118 + KKE DR112

Heat source
Electric · 18 kW + 12 kW
Boiler
21 L + 15 L
Power supply
415 V three phase
Keeps up with
Three or more people

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Two KKE DR150

Heat source
Diesel burner · two machines
Boiler
304 stainless
Power supply
220 V single phase, 0.26 kW — runs off a generator or an inverter
Keeps up with
Three or more people, at the car

Sized on one person steaming about two to three cars an hour. If your cars take longer, say so on WhatsApp and we will size it again.

Which one

Electric or Diesel

All four machines do the same job at the gun. What separates them is where the heat comes from, and that decides where the machine is allowed to stand.

Electric

DR110 · DR112 · DR118

  • There is a supply you can rely on — and three phase for the 12 and 18 kW machines.
  • The work is indoors. Nothing is burning, so there is no flue gas to get rid of.
  • Quiet enough to stand beside while somebody talks to a customer.
  • Cheaper per hour to run.
Diesel

DR150

  • There is no mains at the wash point, or none you would want to depend on.
  • The machine goes to the car — wheels off, bolted into a van, running off an inverter.
  • Outdoors, or across a large site, where the exhaust is not a problem.
  • Quickest to steam from cold, and the highest steam output of the four.

Inside the machine

What You Are Actually Buying

A KKE DR112 electric steam cleaner on a studio background with nine callouts: the touchscreen console on the far side, the hinged top on two hinges, the galvanised and powder coated trolley body, pressed cooling louvres in the side panel, the two steam outlet connections low on the end panel, four equally sized wheels, the stainless push handle, the boiler pressure gauge, and the four valves in two pairs that set wet or dry steam on each outlet independently
KKE DR112 shown. Every electric machine in the range is built the same way, and every one can be plumbed straight to a water line rather than filled by hand.
Cross-section of a vertical stainless steel steam boiler cut on the axis of the vessel: electric immersion heating elements entering through a flange low in the shell and submerged in water, an open steam space above the waterline, level probes hanging from the domed top head, a steam take-off pipe and a brass safety relief valve, and mineral wool insulation between the pressure shell and the outer jacket

The boiler

The Boiler Is the Machine

Everything else is a way to heat water and get the steam to a gun. The boiler decides how long you wait at the start of the day, how long two people can work before the pressure drops, and whether the machine is still yours in ten years.

All four hold steam in a 304 stainless pressure vessel rather than flashing it off a hot coil. Cross-section illustrative.

  • 304 stainless, not mild steel. A boiler spends its whole life full of hot water. Stainless is what stops that turning into a corrosion problem.
  • Steam is stored, not made to order. Pressure is held in the vessel, so the gun opens onto steam that already exists.
  • 10, 15 or 21 litres of it. Boiler volume is what carries you through a busy hour, and through a second gun.
  • First steam in 5 minutes on the DR112 and DR118, 10 on the DR110, 3 to 5 on the DR150.
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Safety

Ten Bar of Steam, and the Things That Keep It There

A steam cleaner is a pressure vessel with a heater in it, standing in a room with people in it. These are less features than the reasons one can be left running.

Overheat cut-out

The heater drops out on its own if boiler temperature goes past the safe limit.

Pressure relief valve

Mechanical, not a control setting. It vents before the vessel can be over-pressurised, whatever the electronics are doing.

Low water cut-out

The heater will not run dry. If the level falls too far, it switches off.

Automatic pressure control

Pressure is held at a setpoint rather than swinging between the limits, which is also why the steam is consistent.

Emergency stop

One button on the machine takes everything down, within reach of the person holding the gun.

Insulated steam hoses

The hose stays safe to hold along its length, which matters more than it sounds when two people are working around a car.

Who buys them

The Businesses These End Up In

Detailing studios

Interior work is most of the revenue and steam is most of the interior work. Two outlets means two people, or two bays, off one machine.

Dealerships

Pre-delivery and used car preparation, done indoors, without a wash bay and without a drain in the floor.

Mobile valeting

The DR150 in a van. Arriving with your own water and leaving no mess behind is the whole business case.

Car wash sites

A steam interior clean is the upsell a tunnel or a rollover cannot do, on equipment that fits in the corner of the bay.

Rental and fleet

Sanitising between hires, at volume, with a process you can describe to a customer who asks.

Workshops

Engine bays, gearboxes, sumps and parts — without a parts washer full of solvent to dispose of.

Steam lifting oil film off an engine bay, with very little free water

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