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  1. MEP001

    How do i determine the price to sell my car wash

    Depends on whether you're selling a functioning and profitable car wash or you're just trying to get out of the business and want the most you can get for the land.
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    Car Wash Scents

    Are all the presoaks and wheel cleaners you sell labeled corrosive? Are all the products you sell unscented?
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    Good News for Car Washes

    The top two are both good for us, not so much the third...
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    Vacuum dirt robbed last night

    Mine have been pried open so many times that I ended up wrapping a cable around the vacuum and looped through the padlock. They sometimes still try to get the door out from under the big catch even though there's no way to open the door once they do. I just got a 16-camera 4K system with 16...
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    Is there anyone who runs carwash cash only?

    From one of your own posts: https://www.carwashforum.com/threads/no-more-coins-cc-or-cash-only-very-nice-54-cards.13730/post-103309 " Hi.. We tried Count Up but it was confusing to the customer.. " Almost everyone else runs count-up with success and without confusion to the customer, so...
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    Air Shammee Nozzle Issue

    Dralco makes a nice looking one. Dultmeier should have them. Everything has a brushed finish. I need to get some too, there were no trifoam gun holders when my wash was built so they used Fragramatics fragrance gun holders.
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    How to build automation for car wash self service !!

    That seems pretty self-explanatory.
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    Air Shammee Nozzle Issue

    Those Hamel wand holders look good in the Kleen-Rite photo but looks like ass IRL.
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    What do you do when you get one of these?...

    You'd be amazed. I've watched a guy with a brand new black car dip the brush in the foam on the floor and scrub his car. When I was involved with another wash, we had a woman claim brush damage. It was pretty obviously not from the brush, plus she didn't clean it or rinse her vehicle, we had...
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    Cryptopay Wiring

    Yeah, I could see it standing off from the faceplate. Interesting idea.
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    Compressor problem - tripping breaker when trying to start under pressure

    The check valve in the tank only traps the pressure in the tank. If both the tank and switch are bad, there's still the same pressure trapped in the head. Again, he already said the switch was bad and he's changed it. If the check valve was also bad, the switch would now constantly purge air...
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    Is there anyone who runs carwash cash only?

    You might want to hold off for a bit, there are some new systems coming. Cryptopay is great right now, but it's already one of the highest in fees and might get even higher if CC companies start charging more for swipe-only transactions. My wash is cash only, and I don't think my customer base...
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    No soap in self serve carwash

    I'm going to bet on a bad technician here since he "fixed a problem" and evidently made it worse. Did he not check the bay after his work? Greg may be right, the easy way to test his theory is to see if all the other bays are making foam. If they are, my bet would be he removed the solenoid...
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    LP functions running after stopped

    Definitely going to be a solenoid issue. Check valves allow flow one way, so if the tire cleaner is coming out in the bay the check valve isn't the problem.
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    Compressor problem - tripping breaker when trying to start under pressure

    That's not what the check valve in the tank is for, and he just said the pressure switch was bad and not relieving the pressure from the head. I just changed mine which was doing the same thing.
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    Door kicked in!

    He's probably secured his door in the four years since the breakin.
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    Vacuum dirt robbed last night

    Burglary, not theft, but good luck getting any cops to arrest someone for stealing dirt. Better to go after criminal mischief or just vandalism.
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    Cryptopay Wiring

    What does that mean? And is that a homemade heater out of an old coin acceptor frame on the right inside?
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    What do you do when you get one of these?...

    On the first one I'd do nothing. If it really happened, he didn't clean the brush. I assume you have signage that says to? Let his insurance make a claim on yours, and they'll almost certainly refuse since you've shown no negligence. With the second one, I'd include a note with the refund...
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    Help with understanding the electrical system

    In the top gray box with the hinged cover is the bay timer. I would highly recommend replacing those in the near future since they will only accumulate up to 15 coins worth of time. My customers routinely add 20 or more coins at once. The black rectangular unit below them is the transformer...
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