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Miles was an inspiration and a huge help to me. He was kind to me from the first time I posted on this forum long ago.

Here's the page from the manual. Code 32 start up test back up eyes blocked. on my razor, the photo eye cables lead to a junction box inside the bay. I would start there. Take the cover off and see if you see anything odd inside that box. Excess moisture? Burnt wires? Any red lights indicating...

sounds like a great businessman; trying to make a quick $300k selling a wash in a poor location with multiple vacs and one self serve bay " out of order "!!! good luck to them...

Why not find a welding shop or a decent carpenter to make some thing? Seems like you could make a heck of a canopy for 1500 bucks.

Dear customer please don't hate me so intensely because my awesome blowers dislodged a rubber piece of trim on top of your Toyota that is barely pressed in there. The blowers knock that loose on every single Toyota that comes through and it's not my fault. The only thing I did wrong was install...

maybe because at the low prices they charge they are hemorrhaging a ton of money. A loss leader is something like selling a newspaper at a drugstore in the old days. A large car wash operation is a totally different story. Just think of the overhead. I can't imagine that they build a whole lot...

I think to be fair you need to put them in a bigger heavier planter for them to last. They are kind of screaming "hey free plants....take me" by just sitting there in a little plastic pot they come in from the store. I'm not saying it's right to steal I'm saying don't make it too easy for people.

The weekends are always the busiest days at the car wash. That's when people have the most free time to do things like wash the car. Mondays and Tuesdays are usually the slowest days historically. Nice weather days are always busier than rainy days but on the weekends people will still wash the...

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$7 was the price for my bottom pkg on old superior side trac touchfree in 2006 when I first opened?!?!?!?

Our pricing is in line with a dealership 25 miles away. We are lower than shops 30 miles away. There is one local competitor working out of a dim, dirty dungeon and I do not know his pricing.

I have the highest priced car wash in the area and I get very little pushback from the customers on the car wash pricing. I realize that detailing is far more expensive, but I don't think it's any less of a value for what the customer gets. Despite this fact, I still get customers who experience...

In my business plan I used 3/10 of 1% for the capture rate of the daily traffic count. that number was actually fairly accurate for me several years later when I re-loaded my automatic wash. That percentage puts you at 36 cars per day. You could use that as an average and then create a...

wow a thread from 2009 still getting comments! Yes I've had the Waterwell in place for many many years now and the town did require a water meter on the incoming line of the well so that they could bill me for the appropriate amount of sewer. The well is definitely a big help in keeping water...

The local banks all have their own bank-branded cards that don't seem to work well in my crypto pay Swipers. A regular Visa or MasterCard or Discover almost always works unless it's very worn out. I don't know if it's a cheap magnetic strip or thinner plastic that the card is made of or what...

i'd say your competition is weak so that is a positive for putting in a new automatic. Then you check your traffic count, how busy your wash is currently with just the self-service bays, and check your finances. A new automatic project could run a quarter million dollars or more.

yes I'm also going to clean the pulleys really well when I do my next attempt at tightening the belt. Maybe early Saturday morning not sure yet.

I'm going to try tightening the belt again. The first time I tightened it I didn't loosen up the motor bolts first I just cranked the nuts on the threaded rods at the bottom of the pump stand.

it does seem like the belt is slipping, hence the squealing noise i described. i will try and get video.

hello! My razor is a few years old now and has been running like a champ. Recently I noticed some squealing when a car went through my underbody. It seemed like the pump was slowing down and causing the belt to squeal. I cleaned out some blocked nozzles and thought I had it licked. I tightened...