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I got text yesterday morning from Pat Hall’s wife that was not good news. Pat Hall AKA I.B. Washincars had a severe stroke early yesterday morning and is currently in the hospital. Everyone please keep the Hall family in your thoughts and prayers. I’ll post more when I find out more information.

New from Parker Engineering is a isolator to go from Nayax MDB to pulse. This Isolator was developed to be used with the Dixmor timers so the Dixmor timers can be used for count up with the Nayax card readers. I believe it could be used with other 3rd party credit card readers. Installation is...

I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be Thankful for.

I got a really nice yellow box in the mail yesterday from Kleen-Rite. Little Trees is going to discontinue a number of Little trees and of one them is one we sell. In the sample pack are a number of Little trees that we might like to sell. Did anyone else get one of these sample packs? What do...

Today to honor our veterans we've been giving away free car washes to veterans. It's been a fun day.

It’s that time of the year that we should start thinking about freeze protection systems. It was 37 deg. here this morning, clear and cold. I check my Dixmor Weepmizer for proper operation. I checked my Anti-Freeze blowdown system, making sure I had the Flo-jet pump, all the hoses and fittings...

This is unbelievable. In back of one of the car washes we have a fenced off area where we store stuff. Last night at around 8:30 2 guys came and measured the 35 feet of 6’ high chain link fencing, cut the fence and then cut the fence off the posts and rolled up the fence loaded it up in a pickup...

I got a letter from my insurance agent. Stating that Nationwide was not going to be insuring car washes anymore. They found me another insurance carrier and those rates have gone up almost 3 times from what I was paying last year. Apparently, a lot of the insurance carriers that have insured car...

Since I.B Washincars has a small washing machine problem I think this might be a good time to ask, who do you all think makes the best washing machine? I have a 23 year old direct drive Kenmore top load washer that's about as simple as it gets to repair.

I’ve have a bill changer customer who wants to install a USA Technologies Cantaloupe G11 Credit card reader on a Standard MC300 bill changer. The Standard MC changers uses a MDB protocol as does the G11 Credit card reader. When a card is swipe or tapped the G11 Credit card reader will process...

I got a call on Monday morning from a bill changer customer that his bill changer had been ripped from the front of his car wash at 2:45am Monday morning. He got a great video of the 2 guys who removed the bill changer. The police were only really interested in the Stoten pickup truck that was...

Has anyone heard anything about a currency change that’s coming real soon? Being in the Bill Changer business I try to stay informed about any currency changes. I got a call this morning from a customer who said he was holding off sending me any validators for repair until I got the new software...

On Saturday when we went to the car wash there was a note on the front of the bill changer stating “Do not to use this car wash because nothing works and I had to go to another bay after I got soap all over my car”. Those are the kind of notes I like to find taped to the front of the bill...

I was informed yesterday that CPI/Mars is having an immediate price increase of roughly 25% on most validators and parts. I think this is the third or fourth price increase in the last 18 months. Everything has gotten crazy expensive

Well the time has come that the Dixmor LED-7 timer has been obsoleted by Dixmor. They can no longer get the processor chip to build the LED-7 timer. Dixmor will still be able to repair most LED-7 timers. They are coming out with the LED-8 in the next few months. It’ll have the same internal...

How many of you don’t have a working camera or alarm system at your car wash? I travel to a lot of car washes and you’d be surprised at the number business that don’t have a working camera or alarm system. I got a call this morning from a fellow car washer and he was broken into last night and...

So Ya think that it’s a good idea to have bill validators in the coin boxes in the bays. I have a customer who used to think that it was a nice convenience for his customers to be able to use currency in the bays, he’s had bill validators installed at this location for about 10 years with no...

I came across this video that makes owning a car wash look really easy. Check it out on YouTube “Meet the 22 year old who makes $7.4K/ Month with a Car Wash” could it really be this easy.

Hang on boys. It’s been officially announced that Standard Bill Changers is implementing a 20% price increase across the board on July 1st. This is due to the increased costs of raw materials to manufacture their product. This I just one of the many industry price increases in the last year...

We got a complaint from a customer who said that the Autec 425 with mitter cloth scratched the hood of her 2013 Equinox. She contacted us a week after she washed her car, wants our insurance information or have us pay for the damage to her car. Looking at the pictures do you think we should go...