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Im a coleman fan personally. Built like a tank. Need a forklift to pick up the oval ones. Whatever you decide just stay away from arch vacs unless your a tunnel offering them for free.

If im spending that kind of money the wash better make enough to have an attendant on site at least 12 hours a day to deal with the BS and for me not have to worry about the extra 60-80k a year it costs. Plus the attendant will actually probably pay part of their wages make you more money...

A lot of locations means nothing. Google zips car wash. 300 locations. 700 million in debt and only 1 mil in cash. Bankruptcy. Its always better to be the owner with a few paid off washes then one with 10 and over leveraged. THIS. Location is everything.

Agreed. I have locations where it's complete dead at night and I have one that is pretty busy at night but located by an auto manufacturer plant and airport. So unless your by other 24/7 business then its not that much of an advantage.

Its all depends on how crazy you go. A 2 IBA/4 SS by me cost more than 4 million to build. The building was built with block but wrapped in limestone and red brick. He's got a fully finished painted attic which is also air conditioned with hardwood floors and an almost 3000sq ft separate area...

Theres 10 of them for sale on CWC.

We need to just be patient as annoying as that is. Major PE are already bellyflopping. This is not the business for suits. Anyone who is in it understands that. The industry has slowed down tremendously this last year. You cant give everything away for free for so long and expect to turn a...

Probably 80% of sites cant even support 2 IBA to justify them. A six bay IBA better wash over 1200 cars a day. This is a great example of what happens when a distributor gets his hands on someone with too much money and no experience. Any honest distributor who actually cares about their...

Its possible air is pushing back through your product line. What is your air PSI set to? Install a check valve if you dont have one. If that does not work then swap flojet and hydrominder with another product see if the problem follows.

That owner must have never built a tunnel. There is no way it costs less than a tunnel. Tunnel equipment is 500k to 1M. The IBAS alone will be 1.2M. Now you need 12 doors instead of 2 thats a 120K. 6 Pay stations instead of 2 thats 240K. 6 of everything including dryers set ups, menu signs, in...

It’s a lawyer and state lawmaker building it. That distributor hit the jackpot...

No problem I’ll be back from vacationing in Dubai in about three weeks. Passive income life I live. The Ferrari and Rolex are all yours. Did you know they sell gold bars in vending machines here? Bought about 250K from vacuum money. Hope customs don’t catch me🤣

I did this once for customer and by the time we were done would have been better off finding a nice used combo on CWC and refurbing it. I won't do it again. Cost way too much to change everything over.

Yup exactly. Conveyor would have to be really long (200ft) and also completely slowed down to work. It's more practical to just put in a IBA because of CPH. Manufactures never sell them anymore. It's not that they dont sell them because a manufacture will sell you anything but no one buys them...

Apparently the OP is not interested in our advice. He's logged on everyday since he posted a week ago but cant even give a simple thumbs up or reply on the thread he created to any of us who took time out of our day to try and help him realize the exact nature of our business so he can benefit...

It's hard enough getting a car clean on a 3-5 minute touchless IBA wash with dwells. Good luck getting one done on a tunnel line in less than a minute.

I understand how it all works. Why would any company list “final dilution” in the bay as a recommended dilution ratio. After looking at their website It seems that’s the only product with that high of a dilution ratio so it may be a mistake. Either way it’s still junk chemical.

Does not look that bad. Get a mason over there. The grout cracks is one thing not big deal. The cracks directly in the center of block at bottom can also be repaired/replaced. A razor prolly does not weigh over 300lbs? and that’s being supported by not one but two walls. Unless the bay is really...

Read the same thing about mechanical meters so pretty much useless for me. Also most articles I seem to find have been made by the companies that make these. Since it's 2025 I did what everyone else does. ASK AI. It responded with “facts” that once again originated from the manufactures themselves.

Parker 387ST in Igus's and Parker 387TC in bays. I bought a few new machines last year that came with continental armor coat hose. The worst and most garbage hose I ever used. Stay away from that BS.