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We were a test site for coinco. We have had the coinco vantage for about 2 yrs. They have worked great in winter or summer. If the acceptor gets wet it will work the bill back and forth 2-4 times and dry out the validator. Before my Mars units could be shut down forever. I got the expandable...

How about a dog wash or something like the Mr. Zippy ice machine/RO water dispenser.

Be carefull. I had thieves set off my motion detectors several times in a month to send false alarms. The night I turned off the alarm because of all the false alarms the (siren didn't go off) they tried to break in. Didn't get in but caused a lot of damage to the door(solid steel) and frame...

Like you said there are 51 selections why would you want to promote any item that might deter a customer from coming back to your place for a wash? You could look at any dist. catalog, soda, drinks, candy, snacks and change 1/2 your selections in your vendor monthly and not use all the items...

Hit them where it counts. DO NOT ORDER ANY MOTHERS PRODUCTS FOR USE OR RESALE. I placed my hugh chemical order from KR with all the products for my vending machines and decided for the first time not to order any Mothers products. It's just a very small protest on my part but if all the car...

This might be a dumb question but how about just changing the motors to larger sizes and keeping the 2 motor setup? I would think that any adjustments that you would have to make would be cheaper.

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Leo does the florr get wet? I have a carpeted waiting room at my express wash that I'm thiking of converting to 1-2 dog washes looking out into the tunnel where the car wash customer can see it.

One of the things we do here is raise our arm to the camera and point to the any car damage small or large. If the damage is either too small or out of site of the cameras we at least have the arm signal recorded pointing to the car. Every little bit helps.

At one of my washes I posted a fold out sign stating that the first 2 bays are for muddy/dirt vehicles only. That has eliminated (most of the time) all my bays getting messy. You can't police your site 24/7. If they want to do it they'll come in late at night.

Be careful with what you get. Where I'm from the county and the state have to inspect "boilers" but not hot water heaters (250,000 btu's or less) and large compressors. The cost of inspection is around $100-150 each for each boiler and compressor every year. At one of my washes (5 & 1) I put...

I have one Mega-Vac from Ind. Vac that has 2 price points-.75 for 2 motor and 1.25 for 3 motor and that does as well as my carpet shampooers during the summer and a lot better during the winter. I agree with Earl that having a bill acceptor helps A Lot. For $5.00 I give Bonus time for vacuum...

If you put your money in a floor safe I would strongly suggest that you double wrap it in zip lock bags. Just in case there's a water leak and my/your safe floods.

The price might not be negotiable but if you press them the company will usually give you 2 or more stores in your area for the same price.

I've been thinking about cross marketing with other merchants such as the local coffee shops (not starbucks), deli's, restaurants, etc. They would hand out a coupon for a free car wash (lowest price wash) with the purchase of say a Grand Latte (top dollar item at that store). I in turn would...

My question is how do you guys find foreclosure properties? I'm always looking through real estate listings online in my area and I hardly even find a car wash for sale normally. Is there some web sites that list foreclosures?

Earl if you use the KR orange creme for high pressure why don't you try it as your F.B. soap at too? You'll get great foam. The price of either product is about the same and it would simplify ordering. I wished I would have done that this year because I ran out of hp soap. This year I switched...

Earl try the vanilla cream for both. You will not be disappointed. I had to use it last winter for the foaming brush for a mo0nth before I placed my noraml order. I could have put half a 5 gal. pail in a 20 gal. drum and have plenty of soap. I would order a 5 gal. pail if you don't have one and...

I had a welder come out and weld a s.s. "U" bar over the door lock and I use a disk lock, I think it's a Buffo that locks through the "U" covering the door lock. Haven't had a problem since.

Yesterday, a VERY slow day, after reading your post I had a police car pull into the lot and park. I thought great "now what" and got a little (o.k. a lot) nervous. Thankfully the police dept. wanted to buy car wash packages for all their cars. Almost made my day.