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That is not a valid comp. Tunnel wash vs in bay automatic are entirely different animals and customer bases. Speaking from 25 years of car wash ownership of multiple locations. You should listen to the advice these guys are giving you, they know what they are talking about.

We have always had count up - Washgear - and we LOVE it. The customer slides their card once and washes as long as they like. They spend more money if they aren’t having to go back and pull their card out and slide it again. Plus we pay less fees. Every time a card is slid you pay a fee - we...

Ok you guys, I’m at my whits end. One of my self serve bays has a vibration and I have tried everything I can think of. It’s a belt drive set up running a Cat Pump 5CP2120W. I’ve been running 15 self serve bays for 25 years and they always run smooth. This bay started running a little rough a...

Oh my gosh, we get a LOT of snow. Thank you for that info.

Good point!

Oh yes! Another potential problem I hadn’t thought of. We have had customers in the past jump the guard rail and try to put their tire between the tracks and the rail thinking that’s where they’re supposed to be. But you are right, with my system and the machine doesn’t turn on. A couple years...

We have thought about doing that too, but we weren’t sure if the pads would fail a lot because of the constant weight of the vehicle on it the whole wash cycle? Right now the two pads we use for the undercarriage and back up light only get drove over briefly and they will last anywhere from 6...

I have used the same system to trigger my car washes for 25 years and I'm about ready to have them rebuilt again - this time I'm going to try having them made out of stainless steel. The regular steel lasts about 7-8 years with a little shoring up and welding from time to time, so I'm hoping...

Ok, THIS is an intriguing thought. In this particular location, the dryers are inside of the bay and the dryers are located directly beneath the open garage door (the door stays up during the wash cycle in the winter and closes after the car exits). Since this doesn’t happen at our other...

We thought that could be a possibility too, so several times over the last couple decades we’ve wash out the dryer housings to see if that would help but it didn’t change the white streaks and spots. The only thing that ever gets it to stop is temperature. The dryers in this particular location...

I thought I responded to your post but I don’t see it?? Thank you for the information about the tunnel blowers. I’m going to look into getting heaters to blow hot air towards the dryer intakes. At this point it seems like the easiest solution. As long as we can get the air temp above 45 the...

Well, we’re much dustier here in the summer and it never happens then. It only happens when the temps drop below 45°. It stops instantly when the temp is above that. Every day in the colder months it will streak and spot until the temps are above 45 and then it immediately stops - only to start...

This in an interesting take. The rear door is always up during the wash and has no moisture on it (the door is a considerable distance from the wash equipment) - but the dryers are inside the bay at this location. This is the only location where they are inside, and that’s because we built this...

I know you’re right - he is a good person, we just like to razz each other😉

Aren’t these guys the best? I was just reading all these replies out loud to my teen son while he was driving and he was amazed at what a great community this is. He said it almost makes him want to run car washes. Almost. He has zero interest in taking over our washes and we’re getting old. And...

I’m going to try that. I grabbed a bucket of our regular soft water and just dumped it on my car and let it dry outside with no blowers, and there was no spots or streaks, but I didn’t actually run it through the wash and then let it air dry.

It doesn’t go away, no matter how many cars we’ve washed, it only stops when the temperatures go above 45°. We do have a lot of dust because we’re in Utah, but the doors get rinsed off every two weeks and they already look clean when I rinse them off. Our machine does not weep hard water, it has...

I don’t know the exact hardness of the water after it goes through the softeners as I only use the test strips, but they come out green. I tested my spot for Rinse yesterday and was surprised that it was at 21. I’m going to change out the membranes today. I like to keep it under 10. I’d say...

I need a sanity check! lol, I know what you meant. I did pour the straight soft water we use on my car and let it dry and it doesn’t do it. It only has the streaks and spots if the blow driers dry it.

Thank you for the info! It has to be a water quality issue because my other locations don’t do this - and the equipment is all the same. The crazy thing is, the TDS in the water at this location is less than my other locations. Go figure. I thought maybe the water softeners are somehow leaving a...