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How about offering a "Happy Hour" special. Offer you cheapest price wash for 1/2 off but maybe leave your other packages the same or a $1.00 off. Post a sign offering the special from 3:00 pm to midnight. Or you might want to try it in the morning.

I guess my first comment is what is your aggregate cost of build out. Does the $800,000 cost include the cost that is left over from the IBA. I would bet at 20 cars per day and only being open a few years you haven't paid the IBA off yet. So you have to figure you'll still be making payments...

It's called arbitration and insurance companies do it all the time. I do as you have done and report any major issues as far as damages to a customers car is concern to my insurance company and they will send an adjuster out and decide if the damage happened at the wash. If they do not believe...

AVW. There not to far away from you

I had a customer years ago that said my wand hose broke off at the handle and put a small dent in her car. PERIOD. The next morning I went to the wash and indeed saw that the hose had a hole by the gun but had not broken off from the gun handle. I called her and said I saw a small hole in the...

I would tell her that you talked to your insurance company and they said she has to prove that the damage actually happen at your wash. Ask her if she got a police report at the time of the alleged damage. If so your insurance company would like a copy of that report, because when you talked...

Waxman I've been trying 5 Hour energy and it's doing pretty good.

We tested this last fall it took us an average of 7 minutes to wax the whole car after the wash. Looked very good.

At 2 self servs I have 5 reg. vacs ($1-4min.), 2 air freshener/vac combos, 6 carpet shampoo/vac combos and 1 Mega vac. The c.s/vac combos have coin and bill acceptors and bonus time available. I have the Mega Vac priced at $1 for 2 motors for 4 minutes and $1.25 for 3 motors for 3 minutes. It...

norton how's that express wash that open up by you doing? What are it's price points? Does it offer free vacs and if so how many?

Robert you say " Can you compete against a full-sized express, fight fire with fire, mano-mano style, with a mini-tunnel?" I think the question is how to survive a $3 express tunnel wash not fight fire with fire, mano-mano style. Do you honestly believe that a mini express can achieve $9-10...

Take 35 cars per hour (on a busy day) at an average of say $5.50 equals $192.50 per hour x 9 hrs. (min.) = $1,732.50 (closed after 9 hrs.) One employee for 9 hrs. x $9.00 per hr. (good employee) = $81.00 for the day. $1,732.50 - 81.00 = $1,651.50 gross after wages. If you have 2 employees you...

Waxman one person can easily run the wash doing 25 cars per hour with or without prepping.

We've tried several different tire shines products. Stuck with the oil vs. water based product because most of our customers like it because it's stays on the tires longer. But we do get sling. We too have the same problems with clogged tips and the only way we've found to help was 1-2 times a...

I did a quick comp. using Tommy Wash (only used them because of the ease of designing a wash online with prices) the price came in at $167,000 with a belt driven conveyor. I'm sure I missed something though. The build out cost totals for the mini wash would definitely be more. I'm guessing at...

Ghetto I've only seen one mini wash and that was before the mfgs. started really addressing them. I believe that the mfgs. are packing a lot of punch in a small footprint now. I doubt they can achieve 60-90 cars per hour and get a car thoroughly clean but I bet at 20-50 cars per hour they would...

eaglewash I would look at some car wash mfg. (Sonnys, McNeil, AVW, etc) and get some price quotes for a 35'-40' express wash. Then compare it to the IBA before you do anything.

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I can tell you from my experience I have a location that had a full service car wash for 30 yrs. next door to my self service wash ( I own both). When I converted the tunnel to an express wash with free vacs (prices starting at $5) my self service initially lost 50% the first yr. My self...

"What explanation would you give to your client as to why our soap strips the wax but their bottle of home detergent does not? I'm reluctant to say our soap is much stronger." Home detergents definitely strip wax off the cars. Plus washing by hand does not take all the micro dirt off the...