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Dear friends, our local on-line newspaper ran a great article about the sale. The new owners took over on Tuesday 12/16/24 and have already installed the Cryptopay Tap & Pay system in the bays, and have plans to replace the concrete with an epoxy coating. The Pastor's are a GREAT family -...

5 months ago I replaced the rubber hose on my Spray Fragrance machine, and was disappointed to find it pulled out, again! Too new & expensive to replace! Used duct tape, teflon lubricant & flat screwdriver to feed it back inside. Created a hose stop with a 5/8" rubber "cable" clamp. I was...

In January 2024, I raised my SS wash price from $3 for 5 minutes to $4 for 5 minutes. 33% increase. I'm in the process of selling my car wash and the potential buyers and my real estate agent are telling me that this 33% price increase should be showing at least 33% increase on the Total...

You know you've got a good car wash when your competitor is ALSO a customer!! :ROFLMAO:

On January 1st, I was very disheartened to see suspicious credit card activity for $1155 at my car wash. Urgh!! 😖 Fortunately, I have 31 HD cameras. I was sick as I watched 8 young adults arrive on a cold evening, in 4 different cars, use 7 different credit cards to purchase between $50 -...

I have a 4 year old ARO LP pump pumping bubbles back into the Tire Cleaner fluid tank. The pump gauge shows 80 psi, but only air is coming out in the bays. I suspect the ball check valve has failed. I will replace pump tomorrow as it's not worth my time to rebuild. In my 20 years I've never...

For the past 20 years I have struggled to get quarters and tokens going through the Slugbuster II P-35 coin acceptors, to line up vertically with the 2" pipe that drops down into my coin vault. I can't tell you how many different vacuum hoses and funnels I have tried to make it work...

During the hot and dry summer months, I have issues with honeybees in my trash cans (about 8-10 bees). They are attracted to water this time of year, but it's getting worse as my car wash is busier than ever and MORE customers are throwing away trash that contains sugary sodas, juice and ice...

I received new Dixmor LED6 timers and needed to program them, with custom text. It’s been so hot & busy at my car wash in California, that it’s NOT convenient or comfortable to stand in each bay (5 bays), changing one character at a time. I’m searching & selecting capital letters, lowercase...

As I've posted before, we installed the Coinless mobile payment app at my SS Car Wash 10 months ago (September 2022). Customers can purchase $1 tokens with cash, credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. But tokens have become expensive and labor intensive keeping them clean and polished...

I'm looking to replace my 40-year old Mark II Vacuums with newer, upright vacuums. I attended the recent ICA Show, looking at IVS and JE Adams. These vacuums use 4 long, fabric filters. Then, I stumbled upon the Doyle Vacuum booth. Instead of 4 vacuum filters, they use 2 pleated cartridge...

Sometimes a token is rejected and gets stuck below the coin acceptor, instead of falling into the opening (below the shelves). Customers call to complain when they lose 2 $1 tokens on the Microfiber towel machine. I think I fixed it with a $1 plastic Matchbox track. I cut a 3.5" strip and...

If you're interested in adding a payment app at your self-serve car wash, I'll be giving an AWESOME presentation on my experience with Coinless. I'm presenting at 8am on Tuesday May 9th, Room W203 & W204. For the record, I'm not being paid by Coinless. WCA asked me to present, not Coinless. I...

My car wash supplier just notified me that my car wash was featured in a Tik Tok video. The photo was captioned with "Make sure it's run top-notch". A guy offered me $200,000 yesterday to buy my car wash. He said he watched a Tik Tok video. Lol! I told him I paid almost $1M 20 years ago...

On Thursday 2/23/23, this white dually truck pulls onto my neighbors vacant lot and leaves their dilapidated RV behind my car wash. At first, we thought they were visiting family in the neighborhood, and needed to temporarily store their RV. Over the past week, the RV was slowly being picked...

When we logged into car wash cameras this morning, we saw a black oily mess in Bay 5. We watched this POS guy spray black oil from his truckbed, then scrub with our $100 hogs-hair brush!! We headed out early to clean it up... The hoses were covered in oil as was the foam brush and signs. Took...

1 MONTH UPDATE!! I installed the Coinless payment app system at my SS car wash, 1 month ago (on September 15th), and wanted to let you know how it's going. As I posted earlier, we had some problems with the installation of the devices, but that was due to an inexperienced electrician and...

Lol! Wanted to share the Yelp review I received last night... :ROFLMAO:

Caught this guy using my Carpet Shampoo brush to scrub the OUTSIDE of his car! I told him that the brush is designed to clean the carpets and mats INSIDE his car. He apologized, said he was from Hawaii and didn't understand how the machine works! 😳🤣 I gave him some extra tokens, explained the...

4 year ago we installed Diskin's Air Shammee II in our 5-bay SS wash. I'm NOT a big fan of their guns, nothing but problems... - Gun rivets are too short & back themselves out. Now we use longer "Butterfly" rivets - Hose unscrewing out of the "swivel nut". Now we use JB Weld (plastic...