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This girl is the daughter of family friends of the people I work for. Her and her family had been staying with my bosses family for several weeks in mass. recently. This girl travelled to tenn. 2 days ago For a seminar of some kind and she has gone missing. The police believe she may have been...

This morning at the convention they had a pitch 60 education session at 10:30 titled raising revenue. It was sponsored by Mark Seven equipment. I went thinking I could learn some thing and it ended up being an extremely embarrassing and awkward situation for the owners and operators of Mark...

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...

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...

We have several doors inside of our wash tunnels that constantly have overspray on them and as a result the locks on the door handles eventually freeze up. Does anyone else have this problem? and if so what have you done to solve it?

Due to a disagreement with the company that pumps our tunnel pit and automatic sand traps last year i have to find a new route to getting this job done. Im curious what everyone else does with this material? If you remove it yourself where do you dump it? And if you have someone else do it who...

Does anyone else have issues with their shoes wearing out quick from working in a corrosive environment like the car washes?? Mine seem to last about 4/6 months before the glue holding the soles on fails and the wash chemicals even start to eat away the leather material. Does anyone else deal...

so kleen rite is now selling self serve bay set ups for hot wax. i am wondering how smart it is to add that product to the self serve bays currently. it is an expensive product and without a second timer you couldnt charge more for it, and if it is available in self serve whats the draw to go...

I have mentioned before that we run an unattended tunnel. Actually it is attended from 9-5 daily but we are open 24 hrs. Normally we run with minimal problems, the occasional conveyor jam and drunks being the worst of them. However sunday we collided with an elderly woman.....literally. Here...

Does anyone have any ideas on good winter jackets/hooded coats for the car wash environment? We have always provided hooded sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, and lightweight spring jackets. But i have a few long time employees i would like to get good winter coats for this year. It has to be...

On the login home screens for the g-5 units pdq is announcing, as of 18 hours ago, that their parent company dover has bought belanger inc. belanger now becomes part of “opw vehicle wash solutions” a dover company....

I have three In bay, on the wall, air shammy units in myself self serve bays, and one unit in particular constantly burns out the lightbulbs that light up the dome. I cannot figure out the problem and it is only this one unit. I’ve tried LED bulbs and fluorescent Twyst bulbs. Sometimes the bulb...

anyone know of anything good out there? I got an email from apexcctv saying they were offering 30% off cameras and whole systems, that's not bad. I know kleenrite is offering free shipping and other deals. anything else industry related?

we have an older mirror that has kind of frosted itself from overspray for the last 12 years. it also had a bad spot right where you needed to use it to get on the conveyor. i decided to give it a second life by painting the frame in one of our branding colors of bright yellow and then add some...

I have PDQ g5 units and they have stainless steel check valves (3/8"m o-ring x 3/8" m-jic) that are located on the input side of the soap heaters. in some g5 models they are on a small manifold block just before the heaters. I have noticed lately that I have been replacing these things a little...

A local wash (not a competitor to me) had the old gatling guns from pdq that didnt work anymore. They considered adding pdq's side blaster towers (i have these at my wash) but because of the cost of them, instead they decided to design their own. They ended up using square stainless pipe and had...

Some of you guys in florida mentioned the need for a great trained tech, I know a guy who currently lives in New Hampshire here near me that is moving to Florida. He told me he is moving to the palmetto/Braddington area. He is not currently looking for a car wash work however he could be enticed...

One of our self serve washes uses mostly dilling harris equipment. Not fun considering the history of the company. Im actually pleased with the way the equipment works, but fixing problems is always an issue considering most of the equipment is obsolete. So i have this one meter box that is the...

the only other car wash owner in town started a radio ad telling people to use his "touchless" car wash because you don't want brushes dulling your paint.... he owns a touchless and we own a tunnel. actually we own 3 different washes which are a mix of tunnel and touchless, but the competitor to...