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Yes, sir. At this point I would be confident in saying we done replacements for every manufacturer and most of the different sizes from those manufacturers. If it's a door we've already done, turn around is typically 3-4 weeks. Sometimes it's longer because fussy operators can't make up their...

We've made rotary and lighted Lumitouch button replacements for that door. You gain quite a bit of open space when you ditch the phone style keypad.

Quoting for emphasis. I would focus all my efforts and dollars on this and see what the numbers are before spending a bunch of effort and dollars on marketing.

Every single piece of equipment on the property. Vacuums, Changers, Softener, Boilers, Pumpstands, Meterboxes, light fixtures, compressor, everything. If it has the potential to cost you money to replace, find out about it. Again, I've had far too many new owners call me after signing on the...

1) Verify income. 3 years tax returns. Everything else can be cooked. The scrapheap of history of this industry is littered with buyers who took the sellers word for what the wash really did and got burned. 2) Hire a couple local service companies to look at the equipment. Preferably at least...

To be honest with any piece of equipment, it's not a matter of if but when you'll have to replace it. Anyone who says any piece of capital equipment should last forever is delusional. Everything has a useful lifespan. The logic board for the Waterlover's was designed in the late 90s. We still...

As Blanco said, any motor with the same operating voltage will work but essentially you get what you pay for. One of the pitfalls that with the "discount" motors that I see operators fall into is that some of the cheap motors are amp draw heavy. A good motor will run at about 7ish amps with an...

What I would tell you is to spend a lot of time on this forum and, by all means, don't be afraid to ask questions. By and large, most on here want you to succeed. As a filthy, rotten capitalist I have a selfish goal of car wash operators being successful because broke ones don't have any money...

DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. They are completely full of crap. They are no more "car wash gurus" than I am Pope. Those "gurus" have convinced a lot of people to make business decisions that have caused them to lose everything. I know for a fact that several are leveraged up to their eyeballs(and...

Oh, well. I guess our decades of experience mean nothing. There are plenty of "vets" on this forum and in the industry as a whole who do appreciate my advice and have made themselves money with it. I wish you well but you would not be the first to find a dump of a site, get stars in your eyes...

The concrete problem in front of the bays is because some genius poured over existing. I would bet that quite a bit would have to be taken out to make that correct. The concrete in the bays is a huge tripping risk. New metal roof. Paint. Signage, lighting. Add cc to vacuums. You're easily at $750K.

Have you reached out to CAT?

Industrial Vacuum Systems. Great products, their tech guy is awesome but can get a bit grumpy at times.

Note to self: Time to raise prices on some of these fat cats.

Investment Joy is who you're think of. I found out through some connections that he's leveraged up to his eyeballs. When the banks come calling I wonder if he'll post that also. I really don't feel sorry for them any more. If you don't do the least bit of due diligence, that's on you. I had...

There was one young lady that had a decent presence that ultimate lost the site to the bank in under 24 months. My favorite are the ones who make a big show of taking cash out of their bill changers and brag about the "revenue".

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A couple of weeks is pretty standard. We don't keep pre-built doors on the shelf anymore because all the variations available. Probably 99% have custom graphics. Multiple brands of credit cards, coin acceptors, timers, sizes, shapes, and flavors. We also try hard to keep to a first come first...

If you don't have a mechanical background, you need to get one. Quick Like Blanco said, DON'T BELIEVE YOUTUBERS. There are a few with videos still being circulated that have gone broke. It's not an unattended or passive business. It's a 7 day a week job. I like to say it will be the easiest...

If you watch it again, the complaint wasn't that the cameras would have prevented the murder rather that the lack of cameras created an unsafe environment for the customer. I sent it to a friend that's a trial lawyer and she said while there is a reasonable expectation that all businesses have...