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I am thinking of going to dollar bills only for my vacs and vending. My Vacs already accept bills so I would just need to replace my vendors with something that would accept bills. I realize some would be concerned with not being able to change prices in quarter increments but that doesn't...

For those that are going to be effected my the minimum wage increase, will you be raising prices? If so when? I am thinking about going up in price this summer. That will be 2 years from my last increase. We usually go up about every 2 years anyway.

Ok... I have a exterior car wash with 2 attached detail bays with 2 detailers. Detailers are expected to help in wash when car wash is busy or detailing is slow (think winter, all hands on deck) Problem -Detailers currently make hourly rate with no motivation to work faster/ more efficiently...

I couple years ago I saw a video of an employee at a car wash hosing down the tunnel when his hose got caught in a brush. The employee was tangled in hose and wash spun around. He was thankfully not injured seriously. I wanted to show this to my employees as part of a safety briefing. Does...

Does anyone know where I can get "Dollar bills accepted" stickers for my Vacuums. My new Vacs take dollar bills but people are still using change machine to put quarters in vacs. There is a small "Insert Bill Here" sticker on the vacs now but I thought if I added another it may help? Thanks...

I am looking to add a tire shine machine to my tunnel operation. I was looking into the new rotating sonnys machine but I decided not to go with the rotating brush because of added expense of hyd unit or electric service to operate the unit. So I am looking at: 1. the sonnys/simonize with...

What happened to the vehicle damage data base that once was available? I can't find it. Not sure if PCW&D magazine had it or ICA, but I can't find it anymore. It was a great resource for common issues on vehicles. Any help would be appreciated!

A new auto service center is opening 2 doors down from us in a couple of weeks. They will do oil change, light auto repair and tires. We are a exterior tunnel express detail and full detail operation. I would like to do some sort of cross promotion that would benifit both businesses has...

What does everyone use for scheduling customers? We currently use the calander on microsoft outlook. It works ok but I wish it had more features. It is really nothing more than an electronic version of an appointment book. Not looking to spend a lot of money and it isn't that important just...

Has anyone marketed a milestone like washing a million cars? We are considering giving away a trip or something to our one millionth customer. Any ideas or thoughts on how to do it would be great. Also any ideas on when to start promoting it, we are about a year away from hitting that mark.

We are a exterior car wash with express and full service detailing. We have 6 self service vacuums. They had been $1.00 for 4Min for about 15 years. The vacs were getting tired so we bought brand new Vacs with 3 motors instead of 2 and got new electronic coin mechs and dollar bill acceptors...

Has anyone heard of a carwash selling gift cards or prepaid cards etc. at a mall Kiosk for the holliday season. Seems like it would be great exposure as well as a great sales opportunity. Obviously expenses would be pretty high - labor , rent, marketing etc. thoughts?

Does anyone know of any place I can purchase cases or maybe even a pallet of Washer Fluid. With winter coming I would like to sell Gal. Jugs of washer fluid to my wash customers. I am Located in New England. Thanks in advance

120' tunnel, 50k cars per year, 7' spacing fine for 98% of days. Question - will 3'6" spacing reduce wear and tear on rollers (spreading work out over more rollers) or will it just be twice the number of rollers to maintain?

Ok background- I am a exterior wash with express detailing and full service detailing. We have been around for 18 years. We have always done the normal couponing as advertising. We do the direct mailings (Val-Pak) as well as register tapes. I did some calculations and for every coupon...

How much does everyone spend on advertising? Do you spend a % of your gross? How do you determine how much to spend.