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    Who is going to Nashville?

    my guess is he means there is more to look at while simply wandering around Vegas then there is in Nashville. My wife felt the same way. She hated Nashville in Las Vegas. But my wife doesn’t drink at all and had no desire to hang out in any bars or nightclubs even with live music. If that’s not...
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    PDQ access wash card magnetic strips failing

    Thanks for answering. No it’s not the cards. It is something specific to this car dealership that is causing it.
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    PDQ access wash card magnetic strips failing

    We have a car wash across from a volvo dealership who uses our services several times weekly. They have a wals loyalty card (wash card) and can go months with no problems. However fairly recently, their cards have started failing, and seem to be failing randomly. Sometimes they last 6+ months...
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    Alternative Use for Automatic Car Wash

    Have you thought about leasing it to another operator?
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    Sonny's Acquires Harrell's Car Wash Systems

    Just wanted to add a couple notes to this thread. Sonnys did buy harrels which had already bought new england carwash equipment AND autoshine of conn and maine. Im surprised dover (PDQ and belanger) was ok with this transaction as now sonnys has the contracts to repair their equipment. Its like...
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    Sonny's Acquires Harrell's Car Wash Systems

    I was shocked too. Harrell’s has also just bought New England car wash equipment and Autoshine of New England very recently. These consolidations are not gonna be good for independent car wash owners in the long run. It feels like the goal of all the big boys is to bring everything under one...
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    MiFi Internet

    Plug the modem into a wifi outlet, there are dozens on the market, and you can reset it anytime you want to remotely.
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    Recourse

    At a minimum you should have him no trespassed from the property, or if possible get a restraining order against him preventing from coming back.
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    pulsatron output hose rupture

    What do you mean what machine is it connected to?? It sucks chems from a drum below it and pumps it up to the injector going directly into the water line going out to the tunnel equipment. The equipment it is supplying is a regular arch. So no back pressure there.
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    pulsatron output hose rupture

    We use pulsatron pumps in a belanger setup (pumps, manifold, etc, all belanger O.E.M.) and all of a sudden i have one pump that is rupturing he output hose. Its somehow letting too much pressure into it and starts as a bubble then bursts. Its happened 3 times in 2 weeks. Does anyone have any...
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    Another “incident”

    Im not even trying to go after downtime money, we initially tried and they instantly went to, "well your a three bay car wash so technically you werent down completely" and because of virus shutdowns everything is slower so trying to prove how much we have lost would have been a nightmare and...
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    Another “incident”

    Still waiting for this customers insurance to pay us, they keep claiming that because of the coronavirus shutdowns they are shortstaffed and it is all still under review. Her insurance is allstate. Its been 6 weeks since i forwarded all the info to them that they requested from us. Last question...
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    How are you all doing?

    my beliefs summed up in this article..... terrifying actually... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peter-schiff-weve-passed-point-no-return
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    COVID 19/Coronavirus Impact

    central nh here...… once business drops a little more because people now have to social distance themselves, we are considering using the carwashes as fundraisers for the local hospital. we will advertise if people want to help medical workers they can come wash their cars, and a portion of the...
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    Leds for automatic

    Hey I said it was rough..... lol
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    Leds for automatic

    Ours cost a little over $3500 per bay to install, but that was using 2- 288 rgb lights per bay, which in hindsight was over kill. The lights themselves were $1000 each. We also had tss build us custom stands so the lights are vertically mounted to each side of the exit door and angled so as to...
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    Leds for automatic

    You can accomplish what you want with 1 rgb light but you will need multiple controllers, one for each function (color) you want to use, BUT beware that the way those rgb lights work is yellow light is created by using blue and green led's. So if the light is in front of the person it wont...
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    Leds for automatic

    https://www.carwashforum.com/threads/colored-led-strip-lights-for-iba.14863/#post-113088
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    Leds for automatic

    we did it in a pdq g-5. we used 2 288 watt rgb light bars from tss per bay. there is an old thread here somewhere on it. you need a different controller for each color you want to use. you hook them up to the outputs for the chemical solenoids so they turn colors on depending on the cycle being...
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