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    Gas Station Partnership

    We offer our partners 5% of all sales through their pumps and C-Store. This encourages them to push our carwashes since the more they sell the more they make. Another thing that we have done in the past is to offer a 5 cent per gallon discount on all gas purchases that include a carwash. This...
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    Gallons Pumped - Cars washed

    We use a base formula of 1 carwash for every 60 gallons sold. This formula has to be adjusted based on other factors, however, to generate a more accurate projection. You need to consider who the gas stations normal customer is. Is it located next to an interstate? Is it in an affluent...
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    Help PDQ problems

    It would most likely have come from the factory with Soap1, Soap 2, Tri-Foam, Wax, Undercarriage, going from top to bottom. If it has been retrofitted with pods, then the tri-foam injector may be at the top to make plumbing easier. You can move the Danfoss or rewire them to change the order...
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    Buy New RO Membranes or acid wash?

    My suggestion, is if you just can't swing the money for new filters right now, then try to use acid to remove the scale. If it works and does not damage the filter your out the cost of the acid. If it fails, then you will have to replace the filters any way. This said, if you can afford the...
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    Glad this isn't my carwash

    Actually you are right, it is in its home position. The wash is located in the southeast, where we rarely see enough freezing temperatures to need doors. It also does not have floor heat, and all of this seems to be have been caused by the way it weeped. When I took the picture it was about...
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    Glad this isn't my carwash

    This is a first generation G5 that a friend of mine owns. I sure am glad its not mine.:D
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    R/O waste back into rainwater tank

    1. Install some sort of overhead support system (like a heavy duty shelf) 2. Clean 2 or 3 old 55 gallon drums and put on side on your overhead support 3. Plumb all drums together using opening on drums closest to floor 4. Make sure caps are on in openings closest to ceiling except one which...
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    R/O waste back into rainwater tank

    Follow the hoses from your Spot Free system and look for the one going to a drain.:)
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    Rural Location vs. City: Mud!

    I have both rural and large city washes also. I agree cleaning at the large city locations is easier, but the rural locations have less competition and out perform my large city locations.
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    Newbie Question - 2 bay LW 4000 Valuation Help

    I would not recommend trusting the sellers numbers. Get the nonresettables and tax returns. Since you are new to Laserwashes, I would also recommend finding out who your PDQ Distributor and Wash World Distributor is. You will need one or the other to help with your learning curve. Pick one...
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    Chem cost per car

    I've been using CSI's DrumPack for about three years. I found that with the dirts that I have to clean it worked as well as their Advantage with Performix at most temperatures. It is more sensitive to outside temperature than Performix. In the last year we have begun adding Boost (a...
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    When do you replace the Shear Pin

    PDQ's recommends every 3 months on the LW4000, but I have found that we sometimes get bad batches of bolts that will break in just a couple of weeks or even days without actually being hit by a vehicle. Generally, we check the bolt every other week and replace it every 3 months if it makes it...
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