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Count us in for 3 on either night. Uncle Sam

This is a copy of a post made by Steve Okun under Conveyorized & Express Washes on 8-4-2010. I hope Steve won't mind if I use it now; it is still good advice and applicable today. Uncle Sam :) ***** With the rush for some exterior washes to offer FREE vacuums, how many also offer...

Thanks, Bob for the info. Since that was a "few years ago", the idea that vending needs to be in the vacuum area is not a new idea; just forgotten or ignored! Uncle Sam :cool:

The trick is to make it close around the vendor door at closing and then, upon opening, fold out of the way against the side of the vendor cabinet to serve customers. The security door that emerged after a number of versions closed around the vendor door allowing a space of 2 ½-inches for a...

We have always recommended that the window-style vendor be installed in the vacuum area of the wash so it is highly VISIBLE and close to the customer for high impulse sales. That means the vendor must be built robustly to withstand the assaults from the “Hoodies” at night and, at the same...

numbers very closely, so a decision was made by the management in August, 2012 to shut down all the vending machines. This came as a complete surprise to us!! We were then asked to recycle all their vendors, so we refurbished, updated, installed them in a security cage and sold all of them...

The Express Exterior Car Wash model with free vacuums has become a growing segment of car washing and is the model used in the rehabbing many older wash sites as well as new. The EE model is open each day from 7 A.M. to 5-8 P.M. and then closed. If a window-type vending machine is used in...

•“T” & “C”—TIME and CONVENIENCE are Priorities #6 & #7 and are important to the success of a vending machine. The only unmetered time for a customer at a wash site is in the vacuum area where customers are not worried about the clock and can spend time cleaning their vehicle. When a vending...

We have been studying vending sales numbers over many years looking to create a “Formula” that shows the attributes necessary for successful vending results using ShurVend vendors. We pulled together all the knowledge and ideas learned from our customers and many other car wash operations, and...

We are closing out two smaller vending machines that we are no longer building; the VendPro-10 (10-12 selections) and the VendPro-18 (18-24 selections). These are new vendors that we have had for awhile and need to move out. These vendors have the same electronics that all our vendors have...

The VendPro-iG5 32-selection is designed for installation in the vacuum area of a self-serve wash and specifically for installation in the free vacuum area of the new Express Exterior washes that are being built. The vendors we have sold to the EE washes in the past have usually been placed...

ICA is offering a free Car Wash 2013 app for smart phones that allows attendees to find information about the exhibitors who are at the show. It also allows exhibitors like us to upload hand-outs on our products to the app so attendees do not have to carry them. You can email a handout to...

Here are some pix Lighted Keypad Pix

The ShurVend Junior RL & FL and VendPro-iG4 vendors Upgrade Kit will be very similar to the Numeric vendor, but the procedure and parts will be different and the lighted keypad has a different hole pattern. Again directions will be included in the Kit. Cost of the Upgrade Kit for an S-2...

We have been asked in the past years if the keypad could be lighted; we have always had to tell them no. Now we can say “yes” to all customers. As we recently posted AMS has developed a new vendor style called the EPOCH which is now in production. The lighted keypad is numeric and only...

ShurVend switched to the LED lights as soon as they were offered by AMS and we continue to use them. They are pricey ($300 for the pair) and are made by the same company that makes the control boards for AMS, so they plug right into the MDB circuitry that runs the bill validator and coin...

The use of LED lights in new vending machines is almost 100% now, but that leaves a large installed base of older machines that could be retrofitted with LEDs. There have been posts by operators who have done the retrofits or asked about which LEDs to purchase. There are many different...

Some operators will like the bars for better security of the window and some will not. Now you have a choice; the VendPro-iG4 if you don’t like bars or the Vendpro-iG5 if you need better security for the window. Both the iG4 and the iG5 are identical except for the bars. If your wash is...

As stated in V-Blog #44 we found some design elements that needed to be improved after some real world experience in the field. “Hoodies” are getting more desperate to find money without working, so they are vandalizing vending machines ‘cause that is where the money is. They think the...

Our new VendPro-iG4 was introduced at the Car Wash Show in 2012 and was received very well by operators. We sold and/or installed them at wash sites to see what needed to be redesigned for better security of the vendor on the car wash site. Vandals/thieves continue to attack the money...