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I’m just saying, judging by what has happened, people use the card only bays less. What would happen if we were to eliminate quarters completely? The outcome can’t be good judging by the current results

Our wash uses quarters. We have 4 bays with card only (coins not accepted because the coin acceptors broke) and 4 with quarters and card. The majority of our customers (75%) use the bays with quarters and about 60% of our customers use quarters. People like to have options. If we eliminated...

I thought they still supported it. The 4000 was by far their most popular system, most installed system made by PDQ. Milwaukee is like 80% Laserwash 4000. There’s a lot of them out there that have been going strong for well over 15 years which is why I suggested the 4000. Didn’t PDQ discontinue...

Correct. Wisconsin has a large amount of PDQ systems. Milwaukee is filled with 4000’s. I would advise looking at a 4000. They are more reliable and have more support, and there are a very very large amount of them still around. @rbeach

you are seriously going to lose loyal customers

Well there is some obvious reasons for this. It’s the west coast, all liberal run states and thats just some of them. Just thankful Randy is not in LA or Portland. Portland is a nightmare.

You can. It all depends on the area you are in, if you are in places where it snows, people LOVE self serve washes, from what I’ve noticed. Our self serve has good traffic.

Are you just talking about your area for self serve? Because around here in MN and WI, self serves are being built along highways in towns with 2000+ people

We’ve used kleen rite. We would msot likely find another JBS distributor, because KR sucks. The fact that shipping costs more than equipment, and they don’t offer a sort of membership for free shipping is why we moved to Car Wash Superstore for most parts. I’ve heard nothing but good about JBS...

That’s cool, we have dixmor displays.

No. We decreased ours from $3 to $2. Increased traffic after that. People don't like forgetting to put in quarters and having to put back in $3. From what I've noticed, when we had $3 start, some customers that put money in stop on the wax setting because they don't want to put in another $3. We...

We've been looking into JBS. We likely will try them in the future but currently, we are looking at NCS chemicals. They have a 65% off special for a bunch of discontinued chemicals. Free shipping too. Whats sad is KleenRite shipping for chemicals often costs more than the chemical itself.

Ask how much the water bill is for the car wash. We get a good amount of traffic in self serve, and a very very good amount for our recent automatic install. We have very good water wells here, our water bill is only $300 a month.

Keep in mind, a lot of car wash owners inflate the value of their washes due to emotional connections. The second wash we are almost done buying is higher than than the surveyed value. It makes a lot of money though so it being a little higher is understandable. The self serve we got, the owner...

No. He passed in 2019. His son took over the wash and sold it to us in late 2021. His son still makes chemicals for LRD though.

I feel bad for you. Just be glad you aren’t in LA. The regulations there are crazy.

The wash we bought was built by the owner of LRD company. I have a few of weeps from them, and if anybody is in need of an old-fashioned weep, shoot me a message. There are better more advanced weeps out there, and we have switched ours. I know the LRD owner also made those mysterious self serve...

Do you know who manufactures them? I kinda figured KR didn’t make them. TransMate makes CWS Chemicals.

at this point I would just give up knowing that it’s in CA

The key is cleaning them often