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    Clean white leather

    I would say the brush you use is almost as important as the product. Use something really soft so you don't scratch or damage the dye. If you are leery of damaging it then I would recommend bringing it to a professional detailing shop as paying a professional to clean the seat is a lot less...
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    Deublin or Mosmatic Swivels

    There are four of them in our wash, I would each swivel lasts us about a year as I am probably replacing one every three months.
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    Midwest Slow Right Now?

    Curious if anyone else's wash has been slower than usual lately? Our 4th weekend is usually a busy one for us, but was overall slower then usual. June was nothing to brag about either... Anyone else see these trends the last month or have any reasoning to it?
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    in bay signs??

    In my experience in bay signs and lighting has been a big hole in our industry. It has been a challenge for us to locate exactly what we are looking for for signage. Most of the off the shelf stuff either looks outdated or poor functionality. Our hot wax in bay sign went out a few years ago and...
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    Deublin or Mosmatic Swivels

    We use mosmatic, in our automatic, last a long time. Pricey yes, but they seem worth it. With most things you get what you pay for.
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    Kondor KL2 low pressure on one side.

    Thank you for the tip! I will deep dive this on a rain day.
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    Graphene

    We have yet to start using the graphene, currently trying to burn through the rest of our hot wax we had in stock that it is getting replaced by. It will be getting ran through A Kondor KL2 before ceramic with a $2 upcharge.
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    Kondor KL2 low pressure on one side.

    Its only a factor for us on low pressure functions. HP Rinse works great on both sides. Output pressure is sitting at 1100 during HP, unfortunately I do not know what it was sitting at before this was an issue for our wash.
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    Kondor KL2 low pressure on one side.

    Our Kondor Kl2 passenger side has very low pressure compared to the drivers side. Drivers side is a nice fan while the passenger side looks to have low pressure and just gloops out or just enough to make contact with the vehicle with no fan. We replaced our tips recently but it made no change...
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    Best Car Wash Chemicals

    What is your company called? Do you have a website that displays all of your products?
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    Portal TI+ bill dispenser error

    I have the exact same setup as you but we have never got that error before. Have you tried calling Unitec?
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    Presoak Show in IBA.....

    We have found that we are using a barrel of powder about twice as fast as when we were running liquid. Even with how much more we use it is still over half the cost of what we were spending on liquid high ph. Only reason we still run the powder is that we have someone on site all the time as we...
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    I finally got a Portal Ti, but need some help.

    We have a Portal TI, we optioned it to dispense dollar bills only as it was much more headache free then using the quarter dispensing option. We still have the machine accept quarters, but not dispense them.
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    Presoak Show in IBA.....

    We tried to use the exact same presoak in our wash. Unfortunately we found that the show for it was generally very poor and would have to have the dilution stronger then the manufacturer recommended to get a desired show and cleaning power from it. We added Simoniz Foam additive to it as well...
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    Damage claim concern

    Also if this customer does go online and bad mouth your business, we have found in the past the people they bad mouth too are also customers you would not want in the first place. Birds of a feather flock together, so it will likely do very little harm to the A+ customers that you already have...
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    IBA Spray Tip Change Intervals

    We change our oil out every year at the recommended interval. And every year the oil looks and smells brand new still:ROFLMAO:
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    IBA Spray Tip Change Intervals

    I am in the same boat as you. It doesn't cost that much to replace but just feel bad throwing stuff out that seems to be functioning fine! Glad I'm not the only one.
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    IBA Spray Tip Change Intervals

    Curious how often you guys replace your spray tips in your IBA. I know they degrade slowly over time, but we haven't noticed a huge difference from when they were new to when they are about to get replaced. Fan width is a little better, but overall vehicle still gets good coverage.
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    Graphene

    This is a professional forum tailored for those in the carwash field, where we share advice and knowledge to help each other. If you are not an operator and aren't contributing to the topic on hand, please keep your advertising and sales pitch off this site.
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    Another bogus insurance claim

    Curious what type of detail you did to the jeep, and what cleaning methods you did to the seats and steering wheel? Where they leather or cloth seats? We have been doing professional detailing here for years and I have been detailing most of the used cars we sell for the last five years as well...
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