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You mean shovelling mud and fixing pipe leaks isn't actually that glamorous?

We run an automotive workshop as our main business, and the car wash is a bit of a side gig. Before our current business I was a mechanical engineer and project manager for 20 years, but the stress and dramas drove me crazy. It would great to run a carwash full time, but in our part of Australia...

Always hard to get the smoke back in.

Golly gosh, that's a bit too close for comfort. I hope everyone got out OK and that the wash is undamaged. Never a dull moment hey Randy!

No P&L, lots of repairs and upgrades required, for me it would be a firm "no".

I think that there is a lot to be said for "following your gut" on these sorts of issues. If the vendor can't provide any P&L, and you don't have faith in the profitability of the business, that's not a great way to start a new venture. We similarly didn't have P&L for the wash we bought, but...

We have a small wash in a country town, population about 1500. Average about $1500 (Australian dollars) takings per week, equates to about 20 - 30 washes per day. 3 self serve bays and 1 dog wash. We also seem to have pretty "clean" customers in general and good equipment that is pretty...

Agreed Randy. We are in a town with population of about 1500, and wider catchment of probably around 2000. We have improved our gross income, but you pretty quickly hit your limit. We then have to focus on encouraging customers to spend more on each wash and washing more often, but these are...

The product website claims $400 in 6 months. I'm naturally skeptical about marketing claims, so would discount this by 50%. So $200 over 6 months, or about $8 per week. Personally, I think I can put my time and effort to other improvements that would return better than $8 per week.

Never a truer word spoken. It seems like just about everything valuable I've learned about our wash has been from a breakdown, blockage or some other minor disaster. Glad to hear that you've got on top of this issue.

Please note that this comment is from an Australian perspective and in Australian dollars, but might help. We have a 3 bay SS + dog wash, purchase price $375,000. It returns about $3,500 per month, so similar % return on investment. I do all my own maintenance, and we do 14 cleans per week. I do...

25 years and no mud! Certainly not in our area!

That's a mighty goal. Good luck with it.

My guess is that if I didn't shovel my own pits, we would need to get them pumped every 3 months or so, at a cost of $2,000 (which is just way too much for a wash of our turnover to absorb). We had them pumped once out of necessity, but will aim to never do so again. So each week I use...

I do my own, and make sure I do some each week rather than letting it built up. At this stage I can still get it done with shovel and buckets, but I'll see where I'm at in 5-10 years!

Paint the wash, introduce new chemicals (in stock, just running out old stock), stabilise revenue at target level.

We run security cameras and credit card transactions via a 4G wireless internet service. Works pretty well, just every now and then the 4G modem needs to be turned off / on again (as per every piece of technology in the world!).

I really like the simple layout and orange / blue combination. Nice.

It supplies fresh water to "earmuffs" that go over the leg on an outboard boat motor to flush the engine cooling system of contaminants.

In our location, we average about 2.5 dog washes per day at $10 (Australian) each. Ours is a small wash in a small town, so this actually is about 40% of our average SS bays sales (per bay). Our maintenance is minimal, certainly much less than a SS bay. We didn't do the original install, so I...