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    Coolest thing you’ve found

    Found 3 $20 bills folded up in my vacuum dirt once.
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    When would you consider replacing your machine?

    I can see the arch drifting away from the car when the high pressure rinse is on.
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    When would you consider replacing your machine?

    99% of the time I can fix it without calling anyone. Less than two years ago I replaced all gearboxes and motors. My gearbox on my trolley is starting to fail already. Last week one of my dryer motors went out and my echain has a lot of slop and needs replacing...
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    When would you consider replacing your machine?

    I've got a 10 year old M5 with over 100000 washes on it. Here lately it is something every week with the machine. When would you consider replacing your machine?
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    One of the best decisions I've made

    Wyatt, which Air Dryers did you go with?
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    pdq M5 error stuck in bay exit outside eye 1sensor on

    It sounds like one of your ultrasonics on the exit side of the bridge is bad, its thinking the car is still in there. You can go to the M5 homepage and under diagnostics look for ultrasonics, you can watch them as a car loads and unloads. A lot of time there will be a different reading on the...
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    Chemicals

    I use Quest and I am very happy with it. I have no cons.
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    Ball valve or gate valve for RO system?

    I put a brand new gate valve on my RO system and adjusted it to try to get the pressure at 180. It always changes higher after a few days. If I put a ball valve on there with that have any effect?
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    Is Ultimate-Supplies Inc out of business or closed?

    I just googled it to see what company ya'll were talking about and it says Permanently Closed on their google listing.
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    Converting IDX Timer to Dixmor LED 9

    I got the multi function one.
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    Converting IDX Timer to Dixmor LED 9

    I have converted a 20 year old Fragramatics shampoo/vac to a LED 9. Everything is working fine but when you flip the toggle to shampoo the time stays the same. Is there a way to set a different time when shampoo is selected?
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    Self serve bay damage.......Tractor too tall!

    What an idiot. I've had two doofus's at different locations try to pull trailers through my in bay automatics in the last 2 weeks. Welcome to The forum.
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    Washworld Razor spitting presoak! Help!

    The Presoak solenoid de-energizes on the way back up the Passenger side towards the home position. There may be a way to turn that feature off.
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    New Wash

    I pay each guy $500 a month and if I wash more cars I pay them bonuses because they have to do more work. It varies anywhere from $500 to $800 a month.
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    PDQ M5 Bridge Encoder Timeout

    Kept getting alarms on my M5 of Rear Hitch Impacts and then Bridge Encoder Timeout. I looked at the camera and saw the Arch turn too soon on drivers side hitting the rear panel of cars on the 7th cycle. It wasn't doing it every car but sporadically throughout the day. The M5 uses the ultra...
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    Fleck brine valve leaking through

    There is no secondary float.
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    Fleck brine valve leaking through

    It's super hard. 25 grains. I guess I'll just have to monitor it and pull the plunger out when it does brine fill.
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    Fleck brine valve leaking through

    On my Fleck head my brine valve is not seating all the way after it is done doing the brine fill and it keeps filling the salt tank with water. I need to order a new one but is there anything I can do until I can get a new one here next week. I grabbed the plunger with a pair of pliers and...
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    New Wash

    I have three washes and a full time job. If I open a fourth location I will probably quit my regular job. Although my full time job has State insurance and retirement which is hard to give up. I have clean up men at each location that go 3-4 times a day picking up trash, washing bays down...
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    Fire, Fire, Fire

    Randy if you didn't have bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all. In all seriousness I am sorry that happened to you.
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