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Percentage isn't everything, volume is far more important. I personally wouldn't give up volume just to even out percentages, that's just my opinion though, everyone will have to make their own business decision on that. End of the day, the goal is maximum profit

Wow! The gall of the OP is amazing. 1. come here asking for help. 2. someone with actual car wash ownership and recent major renovations experience offers help. 3. Lash out at the helper because you don't like what they have to say. Good job to the OP! This forum and the experienced...

We have been doing the exact same thing because of the same reason you stated. Quality doesn't seem as good. We had replaced some the looked original to the wash, and a year later some of the new ones were leaking.

Are you sure you got the correct model? They are supposed to be drop in replacements as far as I know. Any help from the people you bought them from?

We've had 2 brand new talos fail in changers in less than a year. The price they are new, I would expect them to last more than a year without having to touch them. They were replaced with AE units. Wouldn't even want to guess their lifespan in a SS bay.

Why are you replacing? The AE validators are superior to the Talos. Send the AE validators in for refurbishment

I would assume they already have a motor starter wire for HP. If another is needed for a procon or similar, can still use 1 wire back to the ER and then split off from there to solenoids and relays/mx-8. Pretty sure can make 1 wire work in almost all situations to avoid cost and time of running...

Probably not many times it won't be possible, if you need more than 1 wire per function you can take 1 wire back to the ER and split from there. So, probably possible in every situation.

If you have 2 spare wires, you can add 2 more functions in most cases

I think that is relative to the local market - $2 is probably viewed as a big jump in small town USA

$1 increase would be about $15k per year for that property, nothing to sneeze at

Do you have competition in town for ss or touch free? That will dictate a lot of how much and how fast you can increase prices. Too big of a gap on touch free prices vs your competitors and you'll lose some customers, even if your wash is better, you'll still lose some. Up to you to determine...

They have a lot more stuff they can throw on the car in the same time period, increasing perceived value, even though it may not actually be increased value. Also, most EE are focused on membership, so single wash prices are sometimes ridiculous at very membership driven sites.

Pallets of chemical = free shipping and a ton of rewards points for free shipping on smaller orders throughout the year. We buy basically every chemical for SS and IBA from there. A lot of it during their soap sales. We keep a pretty decent supply of spare parts, when a part is used from the...

There are so many ways to get free shipping at KR, don't think I've ever paid for shipping through KR

Check for junk in the solenoid, even though it's brand new, could have stuff in your lines that is holding it open, even a stray piece teflon thread tape can do it

2nd thing the OP says is that new equipment not in budget, first suggestion is spend $200k+ on new equipment...😂

Pretty sure we scared the OP off, he hasn't been back since his original post

Check your other bays to see how it should be. Most likely need bolts for the pulley to hub connection.

You're losing your 24vac hot signal for HP soap somewhere, get out your multimeter to see where you are losing it and work backwards from there. Most likely going to be a loose or broken wire.