BlueDolphin
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We are looking at putting a flex 5 combo in at our location. Do you like yours?
Flex 5 combo ... thoughts?
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I just installed an extended height three brush combo in my wash. Now I used to sell them so I am biased toward them. The machine is probably the most advanced unit out there. If you do this be damn sure the person doing the wash programs knows what he,s doing and can explain it to you. For instance beyond the wash program settings, there are parameters that give you way more options. Let us know what you do
Depending on options you should figure around 150K. That should include machine, freight, install and taxes. You should be able to save around 4K by removing old unit and prepping. I always hate putting a new machine in a grungy bay.
Greg Pack
Wash Weenie
Depends heavily on options. I think 180K is close to list price on a flex 5 five brush with side high pressure, lava, extra wax, trifoam and dryer. Profiling top high pressure and tire brushes adds quite a bit more. Would not surprise me to see one fully loaded flex five combo hit 200K list.
soonermajic
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Mac, loades w/ wheel blasters, & a "Lava Wax" type options, what's that gonna run ya?
I've been pretty happy with mine so far - I installed it in my bay roughly a year ago. The versatility and programmability of the machine, remote access, and almost always available tech support won the deal in my book.
It will be north of 150K all loaded up. Could hit around 170K. A lot depends on the distributor and how hungry he is.
Car_Wash_Guy
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What teller are you guys using? I'm thinking about a Flex 5 as a friction machine a a Petit 360 as my touchless. Have heard a lot of good things about both machines.
Greg Pack
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I'm using WSIIs
I have an older WS2 with four selections. The Petit looks like a nice machine, just pricey, in my opinion. For less money you can get a Flex 5 combo that does both friction and touchless. That's what I just put in, only with the extended height options. Washed the tallest van last week, think it was around 9'-6", with a ladder rack on top. The friction got hung up on the rack, but the touchless wash did it just fine. Have a new customer now who is happy to pay $15 for that.
Car_Wash_Guy
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So is that thing able to profile vehicles with ladder racks, bike racks, etc and compensate for it?
Let me see if I can figure out how to put a picture here.