Recent content by patkelly1336

That sure is a thing of beauty. Our high pressure lines usually run through large diameter PVC through the floor of the equipment room and comes up through the floor of the wash tunnel. Our chemical and low pressure water lines as well as pneumatic lines usually run through holes in the upper...

While our tunnel layout is different than what the OP was talking about, I will explain our system. We have disclaimer signage at each terminal that states we are only responsible for vehicle damage related to our equipment. We are not responsible for damage to mirrors, antennas, loose fitting...

We used to use a wall cleaning product that had hydrofluoric acid in it but we started spraying our brushes with Dawn Power Wash Dish Spray and then follow it up with some high pressure spray from our prep gun system which uses an alkaline presoak. It really does an amazing job at taking the...

We have free towels and glass cleaner and APC for customers to use and from what I have seen over the years, there really isn't a way to combat theft of supplies. We used to offer spray bottles of multi-purpose armor all but we actually cut that out a year ago due to high theft and rising costs...

We have the AVW belt system same as you do. We had an issue where the entire driver side belt was sliding off the right side of the sprockets and we would have to shut down and manually align it back. We had to do this 4 or 5 times within a week until we finally were able to shut down and...

While not technically considered equipment, I would have to say anything related to DRB Systems equipment. I guess I could add in 1 piece belt sprockets where you have to pull the entire shaft to replace sprockets

The towels that we provide our customers don't usually last long, or get stolen before they wear out. But I have found that a lot of customers use non-provided products on our towels that ruin them, such as Tire Wet, Bleche White, and other random products. We use a diluted with water all...

I saw that new carbonite product and immediately thought of how customers would react to a star wars term for something that protects their vehicle's paint finish

A couple of months ago, a customer wanted us to clean maggots out of their car but they never showed up for the detail. They had left a full chicken in the trunk for a month and it obviously, went very bad

I am not 100 percent sure about how this is being done. Our DRB systems allow you to process transactions at the XPT or in the store at the Terminal Controller Computer using card payment, not with cash. There are multiple ways an employee could cash out manual transactions to make it appear as...

We put cones up to block our vacuum areas to non-wash customers. I have noticed the people that free-load are the biggest thieves and leave the biggest messes. In addition, the customers that lie and say they put money in our XPT and really didn't have to be the worst. The terminal has a camera...

When I first started working at the car wash business I work for, we used to have rich foam that coated cars and cleaned very well. But over the years, things have changed for the worse. At 3 of our locations, they plumbed the RO reject water to the water tank for the Hydraflex units. At first...

I know I am a bit late on responding to this, but we use a VFD system for our blower setup. We have two mode functions. The blowers start out in low mode and switch to high mode when the vehicle gets nearby. It cuts down on electrical costs and prevents blowers from not reaching full speed in...

Sorry for late response. On most days, each location will wash approximately 300 to 500 cars. Our record at one location is 1,079 cars in 16 hours. We are running two belt conveyors and one chain conveyor.

We allow our employees to have one free Ultimate wash per week for themselves, friends or family. Our ultimate has the lava shine, conditioner, wheel brite, rain-x total body, armor all extreme shine wax, heated dry, underbody flush, clear coat, spot free rinse, and hand prep. It is a 15 dollar...