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Have 3 Spirit wall mounts, simple install and operation. Didn’t go for the oscillating motor to eliminate moving parts. Will do another down the road.

When you program washes make sure you get them in the correct sequence. Finally saw it was happening on just one middle wash that’s not used as often. 🙄

Keep getting carr jam at the rear of the car after the first pass of soap. Will wash fine then randomly does it again. I can see entrance and exit inputs and the count prox when moving. Ideas?

Using touch4wash for 2 years and the base is $12.99 for 6 $6 washes per month, mid is $25 for 12 of any wash and top end $35 for 1 a day of any wash. The avg hovers around $5 a wash depending on weather. I don’t care if they wash someone else’s car, in fact that’s how I sell it against the...

We tried tokens on the top wash ($10) only over the last 18 months. ALL we did was spend $2K on tokens that 60-70% of were never seen again. My tokens are for 6 minutes of vac compared to the standard $1 for 4 minutes and I even gave them the option of using the token for a $2 bag of ice if that...

Because you're IBA/SS, be careful not to add services your customers may already be paying for, meaning some may pay to prep in your SS bays and move to the auto to finish the job. Another drawback could be throughput with 1 IBA...10-12 cars an hour may not justify the expense. Some may use your...

I've seen 2 locations with 4 Washworld machines in San Antonio. I'd like to know their secret (or rather who their shrink is), as most double bays I know of don't operate even close to peak car count all 7 days of the week.

If it were me and maybe you already have it, I'd go with a Point of Service system and sell accounts that way. Your customers have to enter their personal code and you can still get their $ up front and discount washes, perhaps every 5 prepaid washes get 1 free. Having to police abuse on top of...

I've used the Eclipse here in Austin and I must say it's performance is excellent for touchfree. The wheel cleaning brushes at entry and tire shine at the exit are nice touches to a touchfree wash. However, in calculating it's speed, it's about the equivalent of a double bay auto. The bay...

I've been moving toward these on all our machines and have had good luck with them over the stainless. I've tried to rebuild them all, but just put new on and save yourself the time and headache. Like Randy said, you need to keep a few complete rebuild kits from the foot valve to the injector...

I think they're a great open touch wash, but maybe a little slower than a machine with more brushes. The only complaint I have when using one is that when you drive out after being dried, the bridge is still dripping water on to an almost completely dry car. If and when we can reload our double...

Putting anything on the floor kind of defeats the purpose of VT dont you think? Why not just stick with the treadle if you're going to go right back to guide rails? This is the first mirror in 13 years of operation without markings or guiderails, but thank you for your thoughts. Before that, I...

Loose mirror or not it's user error, the machine didn't malfunction. It can only go out so far and did. When I pull into my garage i don't steer toward the wall.

We don't pay for loose trim the arm knocks off, video or not.

Guy claims that we took his drivers side mirror off on his 2010 Sonota. Does anyone know on that model if the mirrors fold or are fixed? I could believe it on the passenger side that doesn't fold backward and/or doesn't push the arm out of it's own way with it sloping back like on the driver's...

Nice...we use USA Tech on our ice vendors. Not much room at $1.75 per vend. What will Redbox do at $1? But maybe the leverage of not accepting debit or prepaids will stymie these changes. The carwashes are already cost heavy...let's all go up. I say top auto wash should be $20. Wish in one hand...

I.B., Good suggestions, thank you. But our wash pumping plant tanks don't overflow, the seperate and remote reject tank does (did). Our pumping plant has 3 inlets, 1 inlet in the smaller solution tank (all reject) and 2 in the large main pump tank. In the main large tank 1 inlet is reject and 1...

Whatever you do, get a reject tank twice as large as your spot free tank if you can. Ours are both 300 gallon, the math doesn't work (1 SP:3+/- reject) and the reject tank overflowed until i figured out that i could half close the city valve at the wash tanks so that more reject water could come...

Have you considered the productivity arch? Pretty reasonably priced and would add speed and less wear on your swivel. http://www.pdqinc.com/store/product.asp?pID=10018