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I shut a bay down for unrelated repairs a couple of days ago. When I started back up and decided to test everything, the pump ran for about 2 seconds and popped the breaker. I initially thought I had a pump issue. Disconnected a few things and pulled the belt off of the pump and tried to run...

When I got to the wash this morning, a lady told me she lost a quarter in one of the bays. I quickly gave her a quarter and went to check out the problem. I could not get any quarters to go in the quarter slot. After taking the door off and dumping out a couple of quarters, I saw something else...

Got ready to empty coin boxes yesterday and found one that somebody had been drilling on. Fortunately, he was unsuccessful. However, he did enough damage to the lock that made it quite a pain to get the thing open so I could replace the lock. Good news is that I had some excellent pictures and...

How, if at all, do SS owners use equipment utilization rates to determine rate increases, employment needs, equipment upgrades etc.? Or is that a number that’s only worthwhile for explaining to the guy that’s sitting in your wash bay detailing his vehicle how much the bay rents for per hour? If...

While working at my other job yesterday, I happened to glance over at my car wash cameras. There was a lady with a broom, sweeping out a horse trailer. I was only a mile away, so I took off to go stop her. When I got there, the husband was up inside the trailer washing out all of the horse crap...

We just completed our first full week of bird season here in South Texas. When I got to the Car Wash this morning, I got a nice reminder of what I have to look forward to over the next few months as we wrap up bird season and move into deer season.

I'm sure that all of the car wash owners on here have their own way of arranging their equipment. One of them is the way we prefer to wrap our vacuum hoses. I find it odd that only 1 out of 100 can wrap the hose back the same way they found it (if they wrap it at all). Just an observation.

Does anybody have loud speakers mounted at their SS Wash so you can alert those that are doing things they probably shouldn't. Looking for something that can be easily heard over the noise of the car wash - similar to one you might find on a golf course, or a tug boat or a medium size prison...

How are Coin Only operators dealing with non-customers draining your changers? We get quite a few local businesses and residents hitting our machines daily for significant amounts of quarters. We have Smart Plugs on our changers that I can remotely shut off if I happen to notice a non-customer...