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  1. Kimberly Berg

    Laurel Vending 5-column door

    I have a 5-column Little Tree door, in great shape. When we replaced the LED display to the LARGER DIGIMAX style, I replaced the door with the LARGER display window. Door measures 38 1/2" High x 21" Wide. LED Display window measures 3/4" High x 1 7/8" Wide If you can use, please message...
  2. Kimberly Berg

    $1.50 for 20 wash tokens - Funny story!

    On January 1st, I was very disheartened to see suspicious credit card activity for $1155 at my car wash. Urgh!! 😖 Fortunately, I have 31 HD cameras. I was sick as I watched 8 young adults arrive on a cold evening, in 4 different cars, use 7 different credit cards to purchase between $50 -...
  3. Kimberly Berg

    ARO pump creating bubbles

    I have a 4 year old ARO LP pump pumping bubbles back into the Tire Cleaner fluid tank. The pump gauge shows 80 psi, but only air is coming out in the bays. I suspect the ball check valve has failed. I will replace pump tomorrow as it's not worth my time to rebuild. In my 20 years I've never...
  4. Kimberly Berg

    Redirect guides on Slugbusters

    For the past 20 years I have struggled to get quarters and tokens going through the Slugbuster II P-35 coin acceptors, to line up vertically with the 2" pipe that drops down into my coin vault. I can't tell you how many different vacuum hoses and funnels I have tried to make it work...
  5. Kimberly Berg

    Honeybees in trash cans!

    During the hot and dry summer months, I have issues with honeybees in my trash cans (about 8-10 bees). They are attracted to water this time of year, but it's getting worse as my car wash is busier than ever and MORE customers are throwing away trash that contains sugary sodas, juice and ice...
  6. Kimberly Berg

    How to conveniently program LED6 Timers with 24V Transformer

    I received new Dixmor LED6 timers and needed to program them, with custom text. It’s been so hot & busy at my car wash in California, that it’s NOT convenient or comfortable to stand in each bay (5 bays), changing one character at a time. I’m searching & selecting capital letters, lowercase...
  7. Kimberly Berg

    Great customer service from Coinless!

    As I've posted before, we installed the Coinless mobile payment app at my SS Car Wash 10 months ago (September 2022). Customers can purchase $1 tokens with cash, credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. But tokens have become expensive and labor intensive keeping them clean and polished...
  8. Kimberly Berg

    Doyle vacuums with pleated cartridge filters

    I'm looking to replace my 40-year old Mark II Vacuums with newer, upright vacuums. I attended the recent ICA Show, looking at IVS and JE Adams. These vacuums use 4 long, fabric filters. Then, I stumbled upon the Doyle Vacuum booth. Instead of 4 vacuum filters, they use 2 pleated cartridge...
  9. Kimberly Berg

    Tokens getting stuck inside Laurel vending

    Sometimes a token is rejected and gets stuck below the coin acceptor, instead of falling into the opening (below the shelves). Customers call to complain when they lose 2 $1 tokens on the Microfiber towel machine. I think I fixed it with a $1 plastic Matchbox track. I cut a 3.5" strip and...
  10. Kimberly Berg

    Smartphone Payment App presentation @ ICA

    If you're interested in adding a payment app at your self-serve car wash, I'll be giving an AWESOME presentation on my experience with Coinless. I'm presenting at 8am on Tuesday May 9th, Room W203 & W204. For the record, I'm not being paid by Coinless. WCA asked me to present, not Coinless. I...
  11. Kimberly Berg

    My car wash in Tik Tok video!

    My car wash supplier just notified me that my car wash was featured in a Tik Tok video. The photo was captioned with "Make sure it's run top-notch". A guy offered me $200,000 yesterday to buy my car wash. He said he watched a Tik Tok video. Lol! I told him I paid almost $1M 20 years ago...
  12. Kimberly Berg

    Another lucky break #2

    On Thursday 2/23/23, this white dually truck pulls onto my neighbors vacant lot and leaves their dilapidated RV behind my car wash. At first, we thought they were visiting family in the neighborhood, and needed to temporarily store their RV. Over the past week, the RV was slowly being picked...
  13. Kimberly Berg

    Sometimes you get a lucky break!

    When we logged into car wash cameras this morning, we saw a black oily mess in Bay 5. We watched this POS guy spray black oil from his truckbed, then scrub with our $100 hogs-hair brush!! We headed out early to clean it up... The hoses were covered in oil as was the foam brush and signs. Took...
  14. Kimberly Berg

    Coinless payment app - 1 month update

    1 MONTH UPDATE!! I installed the Coinless payment app system at my SS car wash, 1 month ago (on September 15th), and wanted to let you know how it's going. As I posted earlier, we had some problems with the installation of the devices, but that was due to an inexperienced electrician and...
  15. Kimberly Berg

    5-star Yelp review!

    Lol! Wanted to share the Yelp review I received last night... :ROFLMAO:
  16. Kimberly Berg

    Self-service humor

    Caught this guy using my Carpet Shampoo brush to scrub the OUTSIDE of his car! I told him that the brush is designed to clean the carpets and mats INSIDE his car. He apologized, said he was from Hawaii and didn't understand how the machine works! 😳🤣 I gave him some extra tokens, explained the...
  17. Kimberly Berg

    Air Dryer guns

    4 year ago we installed Diskin's Air Shammee II in our 5-bay SS wash. I'm NOT a big fan of their guns, nothing but problems... - Gun rivets are too short & back themselves out. Now we use longer "Butterfly" rivets - Hose unscrewing out of the "swivel nut". Now we use JB Weld (plastic...
  18. Kimberly Berg

    CREDIT CARD SCAM ALERT!

    A few days ago (on Sunday June 26th), this guy texted me in the morning saying he swiped his debit card for $20, but didn't get any tokens. I called him back immediately for more information. Odd thing was that my credit card report didn't show ANY transactions for $20 AND no transactions...
  19. Kimberly Berg

    Problem with microfiber towels getting stuck inside Laurel Vending - single column

    For the past 4 years, since I started selling Microfiber towels in my new Laurel Vending single column machine, they've been getting stuck on the shelf and NOT falling! I vend Kleen-Rite's Big Boss towels (VSKMF100). The towels are 12" x 16". The cellophane packaging measures 4.75" wide...
  20. Kimberly Berg

    How to disable ePort credit card reader with Hamilton "validation shut-down error"

    How to disable ePort credit card reader with Hamilton "validation shut-down error" For those who might have read SSCWN's article on "What's the Deal with Credit Cards" (Spring 2015). I was quoted in the article, and I wanted to give you an update on how I've been able to inhibit the ePort...
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