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Mnorris10

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A partner and I are looking to develop a new in bay automatic car wash. We are thinking two in bay automatics (one razor touchless and another freestyler brush along with two self serve bays). My partner has a car wash now but in a different town and bought that already built. We have the site selected, good average daily traffic count (13k+), easy access, near high traffic restaurant. We have an idea of the costs but want to know if anyone has any insights how to determine what the car wash will gross. Does anyone have a proforma or know how to base it on the traffic count? Any insights here would be great. Thanks
 

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A partner and I are looking to develop a new in bay automatic car wash. We are thinking two in bay automatics (one razor touchless and another freestyler brush along with two self serve bays). My partner has a car wash now but in a different town and bought that already built. We have the site selected, good average daily traffic count (13k+), easy access, near high traffic restaurant. We have an idea of the costs but want to know if anyone has any insights how to determine what the car wash will gross. Does anyone have a proforma or know how to base it on the traffic count? Any insights here would be great. Thanks
Just do it. How much it makes will depend on you.
 

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Too many variable to figure including density, competition, speed limits, and whether the wash is on the "going home" side of the road for many. I would think your washworld rep could build a proforma for you
 

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How big is town?
Easy ingress egress?
How's the competition?
 

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I read somewhere that a wash should get 1/2 of 1%.
 

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When I did my original cash flow projections I used 3/10 of one percent of the daily traffic count. Multiply daily traffic count times .003.
 

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Also be wary of numbers from a sales rep unless he can show you places actually doing those.
 

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Ask a fairly important question, then don't come back for a month.
Spammer
 
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I left the "m" off of month.
Spammer is what I think this original poster may be, as he asked a seemingly important question, then hasn't come back on here in a month.
 
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