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I'm wanting to know if there is any other supplier for the face decals for this unit than Grant-Dilling-Harris. I have called them, they only have one design and I would prefer a different design. Presently we have the all black faces and would like the same or possible new choices. Grant D H...

Thanks for the info. I've been looking everywhere for this information.

I used Orbitz to book an extended hotel stay in Mi.two years ago. While there I asked at the front desk about weekly rates. It was $100/wk cheaper to book directly. I called Orbitz and they said " the rate I got was their lowest rate, not the hotels rate." The next two trips, I called the...

I'm having the same problem with a guy who works at a large stone quarry about eight miles away. He comes in and trashes the selfserve bay and then drives through the mess and circles the lot to use the automatic. Then circles the lot again to exit, with more stone dust dripping from his...

A few years back we had a problem with a customer who had lowered his car and he got stuck on the treadle roller. Said that he had used the wash several times with no problems and couldn't figure out what happened. Also we had noticed numerous gouges and tears in the plastic cover on treadle...

I got 87.7%. Changed two that I missed, should have gone with the first answer.

Rather than the plastic rivets from the FRP manufacturer, I buy nylon rivets from Fastenal Inc. The plastic rivets have a tendency to break and the nylon will not, also you can get the nylon rivets in several different lengths.

Have you oiled the bill validator recently? We have four changers in service and I was having the same problem. Just before I sent them in for service, I remembered being told that 50% of the time the only service they need is to be oiled. I tried it, and for the last four months, they have...

It's a difficult line to walk. One the one hand, you don't want to drive off valualble business. On the other, you cannot let anything and everything go as business as usual. If your wash becomes known as such, it will be destroyed by the mudders and trash haulers and your good customers will...

Yesterday I too had to fish two quarters out of the credit card reader. This isn't an accident, last fall this happened three times at this wash. Always two coins, not one, or three or more, just two. always when we are busy. Some one just gets their jollies, screwing with us. Another one...

Definitely feel your pain. Went to the wash a month ago about 10 PM. to do some maintenance and saw a guy vaccuming the bed of his pickup. From 30 feet away you could hear things clanging inside the vac. As I approached, he continued and I looked in the bed of his truck. He was a contractor...

And to you and your family. Also a thank you for this web site.

I do the same thing at our washes, and I'll add a couple of quarters in the timers of the self serve bays. I've been at the washes for over eleven years and can recognize lots of regulars who have been with us for years. Also, when customers come in with extremely dirty-road film, I'll put...

Agree 100%

I personally fear for the future of this country. I have lived in a muslim country for a few years and the first thing that I saw and was told was that they didn't respet America because we were weak and soft. They disliked the Europeans a lot, but they didn't give them any trouble, because...