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We've had count up timers in our SS bays for 10yrs now. We have Carolina Pride's Mercury Payment System. Proper signage is critical, though we do still have newbies drive off leaving the timer running. It maxes out at 18 minutes. Yes, some customers will pull in and use the free time to wash...

I'm in Corning, along the NY/PA border. The closest Classy Chassis is in Watkins Glen, and Elmira which are both 15miles away.

This has been an interesting thread. Fortunately, in my immediate area, we don't have any operators that have gone to the Unlimited Plan yet. Hoffman's is 40 miles away in Vestal, and Delta Sonic is 90 miles away in Rochester. We have strong competition with 10 IBA's, 8 SS and an express...

I think that's exactly what is happening. It's the local distributor's technicians that are servicing the machine, and they assure me they aren't over tightening them.

I have a 1yr old RO unit from Ginsan, and the plastic endcaps on the membrane canisters keep leaking. They've been replaced once already, but they appear to crack where the brass nipples are screwed in. Has anyone ever found stainless or aluminum endcaps made by someone to replace these...

Does anyone have a solution for rebuilding a Magna Glide? I have 8 of them that the internal slide seals are shot and they won’t work. My distributor says Airlift sells new ones and refurbished ones, but doesn’t have a program where you can send yours in for repair and return. They will give...

Does anyone has any tips on rebuilding a Mosmatic Z-Boom. We have them in 8 Self Serve bays and a couple have worn out bearings. Bought the bearings from Mosmatic, but can't seem to figure out how to disassemble them in order to install the new bearings. Have taken them to a local machine...

I have 3 wash locations and eliminated the trash cans at one of them about 8yrs ago. It was near the entrance to the City park and every weekend we'd end up with 20lbs of macaroni salad and other picnic trash. Pulling them did not effect my vac business at all. The younger crowd were the only...

I've been a regular customer of Carolina Pride, have invested in 3 of their self serve systems for different wash locations I own. They have good equipment, and for the most part require very little maintenance. Recently I noticed when buying CP specific parts from them, they tend to over...

We use Shallco Series 1610 - 10 position rotary switches in our self serve bays and have experienced a higher than normal rate of failure in the last year. One recently "locked up" after only being in use for 2 months. Shallco is very good about warranty returns, and replacements. I just...

Thanks for the responses guys. Regarding the "Bad" barrel of presoak, that's certainly a plausible cause but I don't think its our root cause. Our equipment room is heated and the "no soap" issue is intermittent, meaning it can happen to one car and the next 10 are just fine. If it happens to...

I have 2 L-360's that are some of the early machines (Serial Number 00015 / 00016) and we have been having an issue with both bays not spraying presoak on the first pass. The arch will go around the vehicle but nothing is coming out. On the 2nd presoak pass there is never an issue. This has...

Let me clarify what I heard at the meeting. There will be a ~100' loop driveway where the cars will queue after selecting their wash package and paying at an autoattendant. A gate arm will raise and allow them to enter this loop driveway up to the entrance of the tunnel. If someone needs to...

It is a General Pump TS1011. And it calls for 30WT ND oil.

We have some eager investors who are proposing to open a new express tunnel in town with the flexibility to select touch vs. touch free. It's going to be a 70' conveyor with all of the bells and whistles but the one thing that caught me by surprise was when the owners told the local planning...

BBE, We have Airlift Arctic Polycarbonate doors on both ends, and the bay is heated with the floor heat system. We may have stumbled on the cause, but are awaiting proof testing. The bay tripped the breaker yesterday on the first car of the day. It was sub zero out that night, and...

BCWS, Unfortunately I can't correlate the error messages to a specific time of day. If I had more data points I could but we've only had the relays installed for a week. I was tripping the breaker about every 20-30 cars at the worst point. Of course it's -10 deg F today, so we aren't...

BCWS, we haven't checked the incoming power, but since this is happening at two different washes on opposite ends of town, I'd be skeptical. Also, the L360 Touch Free machines sitting at each site are running along with no issues.

I have two Tandems at different locations. One is ~3yrs old, one is ~2yrs old. We started having a common issue with the LH Pump tripping the breaker on the back bridge. This pump mainly supports the solutions manifold as well as HP funtions in conjunction with the RH Pump. We have only been...

Washing Cars in NC - "Engine Room??" I'm assuming you spent some time in the US NAVY? :-)