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Will the current owner train you and provide some consultation for 6 months? Are repairs currently being performed by the owner or a distributor?

That is a really high asking price. Probably at least double what it should be. A lot of people use a quick calculation of 3-5 times gross. There are many other factors but that gets you in the ballpark.

Doesn't yours have an HVAC unit? Our S2 does. They know they have made mistakes in the past on component selection, and now they are built with more commercial grade stuff. I think they are offering some upgrades for the older pay stations at a bit of a discount.

You can find a few online if you search on Google Images.

It may have cost less if it were a new normal IBA build. This was a remodel, and a lot was changed. I mean a lot. We removed the entire flat roof so some circuits that were attached to that had to be removed and rerun. Also, the Autec In-Bay-Express model we were installing has a lot of conduit...

Water, sewer, gas, and electric taps. We just finished a large remodel, and the electric work alone was $180K.

If it has enough available on the card for the site wide preauth, then it will start. It will then go to the max per swipe setting on that Cryptopay device OR when the stop button is pressed.

You have choices. Our bays were only 24' 8" X 12' 9".

That is what we did. How wide are your auto bays?

Whoever wrote that article was ignorant and is spreading misinformation about car wash advice. Of course look at the source.

We had two narrow Super Wash auto bays. We looked and couldn't find much of anything that would fit in them that was an upgrade to the fixed ovals. We looked into moving the walls but with the mono poured slab/foundation and floor heat tubing it was impractical. In the end we opted to raze them...

How do you repair it when someone hits it with their car?

Capture rate is just one of several numbers to use as a tool to estimate potential. There are many other things to look at. I'm not in the Express Exterior business, but I wonder what they use for a capture rate, if they even use it. The newly built landlocked corporate 150-foot EE in our town...

In my experience that is not normal. Does the bay still look like a self serve bay? Can you see it from the 28K road? Is it easy to get in and out from that road? Has it been rainy there?

Do you have a local print shop or sign shop you use for other things? That is where I would start.