Recent content by Dan kamsickas

So what are you selling?

I would recommend a local, independent store if at all possible. A local place will usually provide much better service after the sale.......and............ you probably can leverage the price against some free or reduced cost advertising in school programs and such. A good friend just got a...

Exactly. I would never recommend running an auto without rail heat and/or doors in my climate. Preferably both. When your local annual snowfall is measured in feet, washes will be lined up on days there is no snowfall. Usually regardless of the temperature. There are too many places on an auto...

Some do have doors but mostly it's floor heat, deicer, full blast weep with warm to hot water. The cost of the water is far cheaper than replacing damaged booms, hoses, guns, etc.

It's still stunning to me that sites are eliminating coinage because when I started that's all this business was. Mainly quarters with a handful of sites using tokens and a few jumping on the dollar coin debacle. Proof is in the pudding. We have more and more going away from coins and not...

Happens all the time here in West Michigan. Heck, I've driven by self serves being used in single digits and snow. When you don't see the sun for a month(or more) and it snows 5-6 days a week at a time people will go use a wash just to get the top layer of crud off the vehicle.

Are you getting voltage out of the rotary switch outputs? Who is the manufacturer of the equipment?

If you are applying 24VAC hot directly to the common terminals of the rotary and you still have no functions you have a bad rotary switch.

More information needed. What timer? Are you getting an output from the timer? Is the output getting to the contactor/relay? Is the voltage getting to the motors?

Just make sure you get any approvals in iron clad writing. I've seen this story way too often where you get one set of approvals and then they come back with.........."yeah, now we want X". I have one former customer that saw his 4+1 with laundromat and pet wash nearly triple in cost by the time...

Good guy. Did some business with and against him. Always fair and honest which is rare.

Not to be a parrot, but definitely reach out to a few local reps. Local knowledge is huge. What cleans a car in Texas won't necessarily clean one in Illinois. I get that cost per car has some importance but not nearly as much as making sure the car actually gets clean.

That's an impossible question to answer with any precision. Different chemicals perform differently at different pressures, concentrations, water temperature, etc. Also, presentation is purely subjective. I tell people to start at 25-30 psi liquid and your air 5-10 psi less and go from there...

Yes, sir. At this point I would be confident in saying we done replacements for every manufacturer and most of the different sizes from those manufacturers. If it's a door we've already done, turn around is typically 3-4 weeks. Sometimes it's longer because fussy operators can't make up their...