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I will want to upgrade my old IBA soon & I'm trying to look at all the options out there and see what other people are doing. I'm sitting here surfing carwashes for sale on LoopNet and found this wash. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/872-River-Hwy-Mooresville-NC/29598322/ Would this be...

I'm at a loss on how to fix this issue. I was hoping someone here could help. I have soap, and what seems to be small amounts of oil coming into my rinse tank. I also have hot water coming up from the bottom of the rinse tank from where the 3535 pump sucks the water.

Was it worth it and would you do it again?

I'll be increasing my prices soon, and I want to redesign my old D&S menu. I've been doing a lot of googling and looking at other people's menus and I came across the one in the picture below. I noticed that 99% of the iba menus I've seen out there either provide a bullet points list of each...

And are they supposed to prevent backflow? Not getting soap in the ss bays & trying to track down the problem.

Hey Carwash gurus, I was hoping one of you would be kind enough to give me an education. I'm still learning. So, what exactly is this thing? I think that I found it on Kleen Rites website and it says it's a General Pump ZH2820 Single Bypass Brass Trapped Pressure Unloader - 4500 PSI, 52.8 GPM...

I've been upgrading my small town wash over the last year. We installed new vacs with nayax readers and bill validators. This upcoming month we will be installing new ss bay meter boxes and Premier in bay dryers. I have a list of the other little upgrades that I want to make, but I can't stop...

I have Donegal insurance and last year was my first year of carwash proprietorship. I'm kinda surprised that they want a P&L, Tax returns, Sales Tax, a colonoscopy & proof of how I logged my sales. Is this normal?

I'm one year into owning my wash and I'm having fun learning the business. Unfortunately at this time, the wash isn't busy enough to justify buying a new IBA. I would like to get 3 or 4 more years out of my 5000. I've seen some other guys put amazing wraps on their older machines, but I have yet...

I really need to pick a name for my carwash. I'm in a small town that has two ss/iba washes. I own one and someone else owns the other, but both are known as Muncy Carwash. I've found that I cant advertise without people asking, The one by the hospital or the one with the laundry.. it's very...

Hey guys, I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to do this. I thought the old owner was going to help me out and show me how to change it out, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I can't find any info online & d&s hasn't responded to my email. I'm thinking the best...

I'm almost a year into owning my small town wash and I'm loving it. Every night I spend about an hour or so looking at other washes FB pages to get ideas and learn. Tonight I came across this wash in Austin. I saw the picture below & it' looks like the customers apply the bug blaster on their...

I saw a used one on carwashconsignment/com and was eyeing it up. I was wondering if anyone here has one or can offer advice/opinion.

I was at the Atlantic city show and saw a company that manufactured a commercial carwash vac that used a 5-gallon bucket instead of the rubber pans that other use. I was wondering if anyone had a link so I could check them out. Thank you in advance.

A truck backed over my vac and bent my light pole. I was able to get the company name off the security video. I talked to the owner of the company and they admitted it was their truck. He wants me to give him a cash number to decide if he wants to write a check or get insurance involved. Should...

I'm looking at ordering new meter boxes and going from 8 to 12 options. I was wondering what I should add in the last two open spots ----what I have on my meter box now------ 1. Stop 2. Tire Cleaner 3. Pre-Soak 4. Wash Soap 5. Foam Brush 6. Rinse 7. Clear Coat 8. Spot Free Rinse...

My vacuum cost $1.00 for 4 minutes & I was thinking about raising it. What are you vacuum prices? Would I be out of line asking $2.00?

Is there a single metric where Cryptopay is better than Nayax? I've searched the forums here and I see that cryptopay is popular for meter boxes, but I cant see what they do better than Nayax. Can someone ELI5 for me.

Now that I have two weeks of carwash ownership under my belt, I'm going to start educating myself on potential upgrades & improvements I can make. I'm picking my SS bay meter boxes as my first improvement. I'm compiling a list of manufactures and wanted to know if I'm missing any. What do you...

I will be closing on my 3ss/1iba next month. The note will be ballpark $290k, flood ins on that $290k will be about 8k a year. I wanted to see if anyone was able to get around carrying flood-ins on a mortgaged property?