I'm in the Georgia area. And we had a lot of rain last year. That said here are my numbers
Cars up 1.9%
Total sales up 8.6%
Extra $/Car. Up 14.5%
Labor down 19.9%
Hoping for a better 2014. Pricing $6 $10 $15 $19
We hand dry our $15 and $19 and I can feel the difference between rain x and the Hot Wax. Customers love it too!!!! Yep it costs a lot but I would never remove it from our wash.
Why not do express with self serve and free vacs. That's what I am doing now at my express. Killing the guy with self serve and pay vacs. Also we let them use our micro fiber towels and windex. If I every build the next location it will have 4 self serve bays attached too the building.
We hand dry on the top two wash's only $15/$19 the customers pull back around to the front of the tunnel were we apply tire shine by hand and hand dry the car. I have only two employees no extra labor. We use black 16/16 micro fiber towels and wash them with a every day washing machine. We also...
Sold my Belanger unit for $9,000. I now hand apply tire shine (CSI tire jelly) cost (labor $0) (product .02) per car. No tire sling and my customers love it!!!
Every time I see a tire machine in a tunnel I also see (slick/dirty) concrete, tire shine sling on a clean car. THEY DONT WORK!!!!!!! Tires/rims come in all shapes and sizes.
I'm with you. Had the Belanger unit for three years then sold it. We also hand apply and customers now vist us because of the hand applied tire shine. No extra labor.
Wow love your arch!!!! Paid $5g plus 2g for installation of my NS Hot Wax machine. How much did it cost to build yours? Thinking about building a triple foam arch using multi colored LEDs.
I removed the way the soap sprays on the wrap. I now use foam sticks prior to the Quickfire. I now modified it to spray soap on the rails on certian wash packages and that keeps them very clean and lubes the rail and the bushings. I can send you some pics.