Does anyone use thier hybrid this way?

[briteauto]

I never was interested in getting a hybrid because customers only see it as a friciton machine and the menus can get too confusing offering touch, touchfree and combo washes.

Does anyone use their hybrid soley as a friction wash, with esentially an "auto prep" portion with presoak and hp before the brushes? In other words, the menu would have the usual 3-4 wash packages, with the extras being the usual ccp, underspray, trifoam, wheel cleaner etc. but every package would consist of a presoak and hp pass prior to the brushes to prep the car. This would help with bugs, difficult to reach areas, salt etc.

I know there are friction washes out there that have hp functions, but they do not have the profiling and presoak application functions that a true hybrid has. Obviously, there would be an increase in operating costs, but the price could reflect this in the proper market. I would imagine that you could get away with a lesser concentration of presoak since it would be followed with friction. You could also probably get away with a pass less with the brushes, at least on the lower end wash.

Anyone doing this? What are your thoughts?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[troysaffell]

Fusion

Yes we do it with the fusion X. We have seen great results striping the car with high pressure before usine the foam brushes. the customer percieves a cleaner safer brush if its only used on car that has already been hit with high pressure. He also gets an extra two bucks more because of the combination and wheel scrubs create such a clean car that value finially meets expectations. The extra two bucks per car nets him an extra $ 200.00 per day on the busy days.

 

[briteauto]

Thanks for the reply - do you presoak first, or do you go right to the hp?

 

[troysaffell]

hybrid

Thats a great point! No we don't at the moment here in Ohio, but I will surely suggest it to the customer. Also Im not sure if the programing will allow me to HP first. I will have to do some testing the next time im at his site