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Well, I had a chance to drive into my neighbor's newly opened "$1 for 5 minutes" Car Wash the other day. To my surprise, the sign that you can see from the street is very misleading. As I got closer to the sign it had some small, fine print on the bottom, which read: "Night Price 11pm to 6am"...

Hello! My closest self serve neighbor has totally refurbished over the last 8 months and is re-opening soon. He's opening at $1 for the first 5 minutes wash. Not sure what the next dollar will bring yet. I have owned for 30 years at my car wash and I have lots of repeat business. I'm steady at...

Hi. Does anyone have any comments or suggestions on solar power for a self serve car wash? Mine is a 5 bay and my electric bill now averages about $300-$400 per month, depending on the season. Thanks!

They are at it again. The knuckleheads took about 4 of our small plastic trash cans recently. These were old with weak bottoms too. They left a new one that I just purchased a few days ago. Any suggestions rather than chaining them all up? Maybe bring the news ones in at night? Thanks!

Unfortunately, it looks like $5 a gallon gas may be in our future. What effects do you think this will have on your self-service car wash and what, if anything, will you do differently to promote your wash when the time comes?

Hi, There are more car wash solicitors now at our self serve car wash, hanging around and "helping" our customers wash and dry, etc. They think that they have "customers" here, but of course they don't and they are unauthorized on the property. I have to be diplomatic in telling them...

PORTLAND, Ore. ? A car wash attendant chased off a would-be robber with a power washer ? and for his trouble got thrown in jail on an old warrant. A gunman wearing a skeleton mask strolled into Washman Carwash in Portland on Dec. 13 and confronted employee Chris B. Truax. "Give me your money!"...

The Critters set up a drug lab last night around 10pm (Sunday night) to the rear of our car wash at Bay #3. They were cookin and dumping the residue in the drains when the cops pulled up and the nerds bolted, only to be caught, and busted, a few blocks away. BUT, that left me with a pretty good...