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A customer with a 2010 Cadillac DTS and simulated convertible top washed in our Water Wizards with Turbo Nozzles. After washing, a zig zag pattern of circles appeared on the simulated convertible top from front to back. The damage is slightly concentrated on the passenger side. The customer...

I saw this Tweet the other day and just had to share it: Fifty Shades of Sarcasm @ daniellecashat ~ Far too many people demanding $20/hour wages have a $5/hr work ethic

So I never bought one for clean-up purposes at my SSCW because I just assumed my attendants would be lazy and use it to blow litter into the grass rather than do normal thorough sweeping but my question is... ...has having a leaf blower been invaluable to you at your SSCW and for what various...

So I am sold on dryers inside the SS bays as an option but if you can't do that, what do you guys think about having them as combination vacuum/car dryers in the vacuuming area maybe on 4 out of 8 vacuums? Since the drying hose doesn't have a boom and you obviously don't want to "drape" the...

So my SS has lots of asphalt space in front of the SS bays. Because of Facebook, there's this club of mostly high school aged car enthusiasts who will call a "meet" and tell everyone to meet at my car wash...many do wash but lots who just come to "meet up" and "hang out" don't and sometimes it...

I have 6 SS bays which face north so in the wintertime it's horrible keeping the floors from freezing because of the strong frigid north winter winds! :eek:I need a barrier on my SS exits side but I can't add traditional SS doors because they reduce my bays' clearance height too much. (and my...

I have two, 14-year-old SS dog wash tubs similar to the Kleen-Rite models sold nowadays. I'M HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THE SOAPS TO DISPENSE ANYTHING BUT SUPER WATERY (hardly any product mixed in w/ the water?) I've changed KIP valves, foot valves, chemical tubing but to no avail? I'm getting so...

I don't smoke so I don't know the habits of smokers...do they mostly toss their cigarettes onto the ground when done smoking or if you provide "cigarette receptacles" at your self-service car wash site, does that really help a bunch? I'm talking about those freestanding receptacles that have a...

So I just read that our local city department of health has nearly convinced our city council to pass a "Mandatory Mask Ordinance". Reason being...they think mask-wearing is so efficacious that by imposing this on its citizenry we will spare so many from contracting COVID-19 I guess...

I'm in the market to replace a couple of 16-year-old combo vacs. I'm interested in the ones that have 3 fragrances & both the spot remover and shampooer options. Narrowed down to J.E. Adams or Fragramatics. My question for you is: Would you add or omit having bill acceptance available at your...

Almost nightly but most definitely the night before our dumpster is weekly emptied out, we have "dumpster divers" who through their own volition climb into the dumpster to sift through all that garbage taking w/ them anything they find "valuable?" When I catch them on site I tell them what they...

Last night someone tried drilling into both medeco locks of my WashSelect II's door. :mad: I'm having a professional locksmith try and remove the damaged locks after my ordered replacement locks and housings arrive. So the locksmith says to me, "After you see how easily I will remove those...

Hello: I have a WW 2.0 which is just 1-year-old now. I am having an issue where the green LED light that blinks on the driver's side gantry (indicating EXIT NOW) won't turn off even after the customer's driven past the can eyes. Unless I press RESET on the control panel, only then will the...

Business has been good but I admit I am WAY BEHIND on my touchfree automatics pricing & wash recipes. Currently I ONLY HAVE A DRYER on my top-of-the-line wash. The next wash down I have triple shine conditioner w/o a dryer. Next wash down is just a Wash & Wax w/ no dryer and then cheapest wash I...

I've been reading through years worth of posts about bill changers. My 13-year-old Rowe 2800 which has 2 Mars Conversion Kits is causing me headaches from both bill changers (customers getting no coins at all or only a partial dispensing of coins owed to them...problem happens mostly immediately...

My 13-year-old WW 1.0 recently treated a pick-up truck like a low-profile vehicle thus amounting to over $4,500 in damage claim from three boom hits to its top so this & some other issues finally made me decide I need to upgrade and invest in a new 2.0 machine. Been fascinated w/ the "lava foam"...

Employees & Their Work Focus Degraded Substantially by Smartphone On Their Person?!! I have a sscw, 6 handbays, 2 automatics, 2 dog wash tubs, vending machine, 2 combo vacs, 6 vacs. I pay attendants, four of them, to keep my facility clean, to keep vehicles too big for my auto bays from...

For both of my in-bay automatics I have Wynd Star Model MT exit side roll-up doors and Airlift XRS entry side roll-up doors. My bays face north & south w/ my entry being at the south side of the bay. I learned the hard way during my first year operating w/ the exit side roll-up doors that IT...

Sometimes a new customer will come by and purchase a touch free wash that has no dryer and then will complain that "our dryer is not working." They do not see our menu sign which lists the dryer as only on our top-of-the-line wash. We apologize for their not seeing the sign and turn on the dryer...

:mad: Friday am, 9/12/14 at 1:37 two strong losers with no moral compass yanked my Wash Select IIs off their "pretty" angled stainless steel stands IN LESS THAN 4 MINUTES TIME despite these being fine the 11 years I've been open. They then loaded them into the back of their mini-van. Need to...