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I don’t understand what you’re asking. Can you circle the area in one of the photos that is of concern? There is supposed to be chemical in the valve area of the solenoid. There shouldn’t be chemical in the coil. Your picture doesn’t seem to show anything out of the ordinary. I’m sure we are...

I’m just hoping for the early October snow storm to kick off the salt season. Winter of 2023/24 didn’t even start until mid January. September is always slow. I was speaking with Waxman last week. We are both happy with our September car counts so far.

In my market they don’t make it through the weekend. I have an extremely broad customer base. I’d put money on an over 58-67yo white “blonde” woman driving a Lexus or other higher end SUV to grab these.

Been carrying a Gerber Suspension for as long as I can remember. I think I found this one at the Carwash. I’ve had Swiss Army knives since I was in middle school, the leather man and have had several Gerbers.

Three likely causes 1 no voltage to the coil. This could be a burnt/shorted coil or a wire break some where in the rotary switch or the wire to the coil. Check the ground/neutral side wire too. The easiest test for this is to power on the bay and select Soap. The stem on the solenoid should...

Or Zoro.com to save a few $$ https://www.zoro.com/search?q=Fuse%20glr-10

Agree with others. Fusion could be rehabbed and make you more money that the SS bays. It will cost you more to convert that to a SS bay than it will to rehab the machine. Then save some money to replace it with good touchless machine and differentiate yourself from the new tunnels. Make...

What are you trying to accomplish? if I was trying to do this I’d start at the breaker panel and identify which wires are on the same phase. Then, I’d do a continuity test from the identified wires at the panel to the wire at the motor starter. Attach phase 1 at the panel to position 1 on the...

Monorail has been out of business for about 20 years. They started in by building automatic carwashes using a similar design as RoboWash. I don’t think they were hugely successful with the IBA but did make some of the best SS equipment and vacuums. My SS pump stand was built in ‘84 and is...

You should be able to get tech support to help you out but your distributor should be your first call. The distributor can get tech support over the phone right away. As an operator you need to schedule an appointment and Unitec will call you at the assigned time. Unfortunately, the...

Etowah Valley Equipment is just about the easiest stuff to work on. I’m not enthusiastic about direct injection, VFDs or a lot of fancy controls especially proprietary parts! I want equipment that any idiot can understand along with parts that I can buy from any industrial supply house. I...

What did your Proforma indicate the car count would be? Calculating 7500 x .005 = 37.5 cars per day. This is Robert Roman’s formula. For the past 20 years I’ve had my eye on a site in front of a Walmart. Traffic count is 9500. Mostly commuter traffic or direct into Walmart. Using my Proforma...

I think that is Mark VII. Maybe IB Washingcars would know. I think he was the Mark VII guy on this site

I don’t want to kick you while you’re down but…the chemical issues you had for the first 9 months really shot yourself in the foot. Customers that came in once or twice and didn’t get a quality wash won’t be returning without some kind of significant incentive. For this I’d recommend giving...

It seems to work fine in the SS. No or very little scent but foams great and seems to clean well. I haven’t tried it in my IBAs Just note, the KleenPak line is very different than the other Kleen-rite chemicals that come in 5 gallon jugs/buckets

I’ve had customers repeatedly do it with a single wash. The issue was a bigger deal several years ago. I don’t know why but the problem has mostly gone away. I’d hate to sell a wash bundle and the have a customer do a chargeback. It’s an easy was to give away 6 washes really quickly. I’m...

Is that sarcasm? After nearly 25 of washing cars I’ve noticed that a small group will find every way to cheat the system at every business. They also don’t mind sharing what ever tactics they find with the other hooligans in town.

Have you encountered many credit card chargebacks when people buy bundles?

When Jim was slowing down and shutting down his business I had asked about buying his business but he said he already had a deal with someone else. I don’t know what happened but I’ve never seen a product that was as refined as Jim’s.

This one of the famous Uncle Sam’s ShurVend vendors. Jim (Uncle Sam) was a long time member here. I believe he is in his 90’s now but quite ill unfortunately. These machines are rebranded AMS vendors (Automated Merchandising Systems) that Jim would fortify with steel cages. The one shown is...