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1. I got a 6 bay self serve that has a 2 hp 30 gallon tank in it. Its a single phase 110 plug in. It recently started tripping my breaker. We think it needs a new capacitor. What size motor should I replace it with? 5hp? I like a good amount of foam brush action and presoak and tire clean psi...

2505 1200 psi. Im thinking about downsizing to 2504 though at 1200 psi or a little more psi.

Thanks mep... That explains alot. My wash has a dilling Harris setup. My other wash doesn't, but I'm gonna switch them around so I won't have to worry about it so much.

My supplier said the same thing but when I flip it around and run it on rinse I'm not seeing soap or wax come out. At my other car wash, I installed solenoids on a manifold with wax on the in side and pump side on the out part of solenoid. I unscrewed my wax going into my manifold and ran a bay...

Ok, I have gravity fed soap and wax headed to my solenoid valves. I put in a new solenoid valve on wax and put the wax on the in part of the solenoid and 1/4 tube that runs OUT to my pump on the out part. When I run my bay on rinse it dilutes my wax. So, I put my pump side hose on the in part...

My foam brush in all my bays lost its foam action. Like a week ago, foam was producing nicely. Last time I had this problem, I found a small water leak coming from hydrominder which was diluting the chemical. I took the tip out and cleaned it. Could this be it? Maybe I have a small leak shooting...

Yes, we were just talking about connecting the shopping center. We plan on making the truck bay closest to the equipment room an automatic. Can you think of a better place?

I'm at 820 w. 23rd st Tulsa OK.

Currently, we have vacuums only. Thinking about installing combo vac, shampooer, and air freshener. How well does each one really do? Which is the best money maker? It seems like they cost a fortune. Any advice would be helpful. Anything to generate more income.

What exactly is a small express wash? Sounds interesting. What are you guys thoughts on used equipment? I talked to my distributor today and he recommended the pronavigator. Has anyone ever heard of this machine?

There is an automatic about 2 or 3 miles away east and west of us, and there is a conveyorized auto wash about 5 miles away. We are in a low income area, but about a mile away is much higher income. We get alot of people driving by going downtown to work. I read an article on here about...

We got a six bay self serve car wash that we bought from a bank about 9 months ago. It's been slow, and we just started making our mortgage payment....lol Anyways, we are looking at adding an In Bay Automatic to increase revenue. We get about 13000 cars per day driving by. Conservatively, how...

I planned on vonbrook. Do you have people just walk away when they just have a ten or twenty dollar bill on hand? Do you run a promotion on a higher bill, like 11 tokens for $10 dollars or 22 tokens for $20?

That's a great idea, but how do I switch my laurel mechanical vending machines to just take dollar tokens?

I currently just dispense quarters, but I am considering dispensing high security dollar tokens and quarters, because all my vending products are mechanical. Has anyone ever done this? Any ideas on the ratio from tokens to quarters on each bill?

I called ap formulators today. The guy told me that their 5 gallon 2100:1 tropical bay extreme is actually about 240:1 through a self serve. You would be better off buying kleen rite ultra concentrate chemical at 900:1 and premixing.

What soap were you using before txheat? You might have too much air coming through your lines or a broken hose on your tire engine cleaner.

We purchased all our chemicals from them since they are close to home and cut out the middleman. Being new to the industry , they are pretty helpful. I had customers telling me they dont see soap in my HP soap. I switch to their blue shine II and low and behold you see foam and has bubble gum...

Has anyone ever heard of AP formulators? They have some really ultra lean chemicals on their website. Like 1600:1 stuff. Of course, they don't have any prices listed. Just trying to keep my chemical costs down. Any suggestions?

I don't know if I can change the volume of air on mine or not. Ill have to check.