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Good for you! My long time processor Itransact switched to worldpay and what a nightmare they are! 21 years of no issues and all of a sudden I had nonstop issues and worldpay couldn’t find their rear end with both hands. If I were you and things are working smoothly, I’d never switch to...

Oh! I didn't see these replies! I am not at my office right now so I'm not sure what the cost per KWH is, but I can tell you for sure that I will not be getting any subisdies. Apparently those are only for gas stations as they do give subsidies for lights that are mounted on the roof pointing...

Wow! Thank you everyone for the replies. It really helps me to decide what is worth doing and what would be a waste of time and money.

Oh my gosh! It would help if I would read a little closer. My bad!

We had the exact same problem on our original car wash that we built 17 years ago (we learned and built the next two with walls that never had to be painted or stained). Anyway, we looked into every possible solution and ended up using very tall sheets of white FRP. I was sooooo hesitant to do...

I'm considering changing out my current wall pack lights from 250W metal halide to 50W LEDs. Has anyone out there converted their car washes to LED's? The salesman that is trying to sell me on doing this has worked up some numbers and it shows I should save about $2,000 a year per car wash in...

So, here's the question, are any of my fellow car wash operators out there using social media to grow your business? I got an interesting call from a nice young lady that works at Main Street Hub. They manage your buinesses online presence for you, like yelp, google, foursquare, etc. The info...

Wow. Thanks for the replies! You have given me a lot to think about. I really think after reading the links "Diamondwash" gave me that I need to put up minimum clearance signs. In 12 years that has never occured to me! I have maximum height sign of course to protect my equipment, but...

I just recieved a call at 10pm from a customer that claims my In bay automatic damaged the bottom drivers side of his Nissan 350Z as he pulled off the treadle when his wash was done. He said the treadle plate caught on the underside right behind the tire and ripped the plastic moulding 8...

Unfortunately, I can tell you. $3,500. That was for 3 locations. Jeanine

Depends on what you want the system to do. Washcards system has a lot more bells and whistles than Washgear. We have run Washcards for 10 years at one of our locations and they system has worked great. Dan was always there for us when we needed something. However, we installed credit card...

Thank you! I did try everything you said and it all works prefect. I also spent a few days doing some careful measurements and figuring out how many cars per ounce we were putting the chemical on and it was exactly what the manf of the drying aid says it should be (Blue Coral Cold Wax)...

Well, sad to report no luck with switching presoaks to lower alkaline. Just to be sure the presoak wasn't the problem we took it out all together and washed my truck with NO presoak at all, just water. Still no change in the drying aid. The water clings to it like a sheet. Very frustrating.

We have Futura machines. I'll try making it weaker. We haven't tried that. We just keep trying stronger - with no results.

I don't have a second step or tricolor, but I do run a clear coat protectant. We are trying the old presoak today to see if the drying aid starts working again. If it does, at least we know what we are working with. Wish me luck.....

You know, we are really starting to suspect that is the problem. I just got off the phone with my soap guy and he said the new presoak they switched me to this fall is REALLY high ph. So tomorrow he is dropping off a drum of the old stuff we used to use. We'll see if the drying aid suddenly...

We simply put the drying aid line into a bottle of the drying aid that has the ounces marked on it. Then we check it the next day (we have a counter to see how many cars we washed) and then divide the cars washed by the ounces we used. So if your drying aid should be applied at 1/4 ounce per...

We just finished doing that last week and they are being applied at the maufacturers recommended amount per vehicle. (I did try running it higher at one of my washes and not only did it not work, the cars dried with white spots. Obviously I put on too much!!!)

We did check for that and found no problems. I was already pretty sure that wasn't the problem since all of our locations have quit working. Thanks for the suggestion!

I am SO GLAD to hear you say that. We switched to a new formula our soup manufacturer wanted us to try this fall. We love it. Cleans GREAT. But, we have wondered a couple times now if the drying aid problem could possibly be related to the new presoak. We didn't know how that could be...