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How about try the stone soap from Amazon? Been wanting to try their products and you can try 1 order before having to buy in bulk to get lower shipping.

I went token only this year, and it took 3 months of clearing jams from the coin mechs before everyone figured it out. Best thing ever however we still get $20-30 a week of people that bring a bag of quarters and want to change them for tokens. I know I miss a few customers but I am also missing...

Yes that is presoak. When this video was taken, this was KR purple passion at around 90:1 yellow tip, straight from the container. I also inherited some Summer Breeze which does the same. But today, I'm experimenting with a mix of the high pH hyper concentrate from KR, foam additive, and Summer...

Thanks! I have 1/4 inch nylon from the motor room to a foam generator above each bay; then 3/8 hose to the foam gun. Air and soap mix above the bay into the foam generator with a 1/4 inch cross. (I also have Kleen-Rite green tire cleaner going into the same foam generator that foams even better...

See if you can see this link. This is 60psi flojet (and 45-50psi air) with a 4040 tip and a homemade foam generator. Without the foam generator you would get a lot of splattering from the flojet. I have the mixture pretty strong to get it to foam good. Customers use a lot of it now. Feel free...

I started with cryptopay swipe in 2 of 6 SS bays. Slowly customers starting using it. But when I added 3 CryptoTap and one more swipe to make all bays CC capable, sales boomed. I mean doubled and all growth was CC sales. So do all bays and bite the bullet on the CryptoTap units. Been happy with...

If I may ask, what are you looking to do with this purchase? Own and operate? Investment property? I know this area (parents live there) and have driven past that car wash many times. If I remember it’s sunk down off the road a bit, not perfect for curb appeal. Speed limit is 45 right there if I...

I was in a similar boat inheriting a 6 bay self serve along with another business. Equipment was from 1994 and mostly original. Still had shallow well pumps for foam brush and tire cleaner. Most of the “upgrades” were poorly done from the previous owner. Gut jobs were looking like $50-75k and...

I have a switch in the engine room that jumps 24v straight to the rotary switch. Was original and could be used here if you have an off function on your rotary.

I only have Cat 310 pumps. 6 of them from 1994 and needed nothing but seals.

I wouldn’t go to 1/4 hoses. I just changed from 1/4 to 3/8 HP hoses from the engine room to the bays on a 6 bay. The main reason was the longest bay had low pressure at the gun (380psi pressure drop) and the hoses were old. If you do the math, the water travels through the hose at 50 feet per...

I was using Vendors repair service who has been pretty good. They warrantied the last repair which was a control board. Every time I get “little to no acceptance” diagnosis. The thing is, the validator lives a calm life in a heated engine room for token changing. From my experience the older mei...

I have a T702-U5M Talos in an American Changer machine. I've been fighting this Talos validator for 1 year, repaired 3 times due to no acceptance, and never got the coupon referenced here to work. I would program each bill after repairs. Come to find out, there is another version of this...

Having gone through buying a car wash and attached auto shop recently I can share my experience. Separate the land from the business. Earnings (EBITA) multiple of 3-4 is a target for the business. So the business is worth $30k x 4 = $120k. Land you say is worth $200k for an offer of $320k. Very...

I just had this issue today. One tap plus would no longer read cards. I also noticed 2 green lights along the top of the unit on the face. The bezel was cycling lights normally. Anyway I power cycled it and it started working again. Really hoping it doesn’t freeze up again but I’ll be looking...

I had a bay cat310 start pulsating this weekend and also low pressure. (<800psi) I took the valve plugs out and one of the holes was leaking a little water. (I’m gravity feed to the pump) Pulled that valve and a small piece of plastic was stuck in the valve. Removed it and back in business! For...

I refurbished an old RO system from 1994 with new membrane, pre-filter, and refilled the existing carbon bed. I put out 4ppm water to a 300Gal storage tank. (starting with 120ppm) More than enough for my 6 bay SS and only cost $200 or so for the Amazon membrane (4x40 inch). Here are a couple...

I have coin Mech mechanical coin acceptors so for $35 per vac I switched the guts to take tokens only and adjusted the timer to read 2 coins to start. Worked great. I have gotten one rogue token so far because the mechanical ones only read size and not material.

I’m with you here and this was the main reason to go to tokens. I don’t want to see another quarter. Although people still throw quarters in there so fast it jams the acceptor and somehow they overflow into the vault. I’ve unfortunately “stolen” $80 in quarters that way but I added extra signs...

Timely thread since I just changed to $1 Tokens and aside from a tense transition period (see other recent thread on this forum) it has been a really good business for me so far. If you were to go to tokens and they walk out, you make 50-75 cents on each one so you would have profited $4-6k on...