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We recently knocked a mirror off a Bentley. (PDQ G5 Auto) Got the bill and it's $1975 to fix it. So I called my insurance broker and he told me NOT to put it through my insurance. We have a $1000 deductible and he said my insurer my refuse the renew my policy if I submit such a trivial...

We have been approached by a very large mall in our area. They have offered to lease us a piece of property at a WAY UNDER MARKET value. The pad is right next to a new Target store that is opening up. The Landlord will commit $300K- towards the building costs. We are considering a 2-3 Bay...

Has anyone ever seen this PDQ G5 Error: 09/01/2011 19:01:43 Bay Lon Stress Test Failure - 0 Any idea what it means?

Somehow the door to your garbage enclosure swung open. Later that day a customer backed up and hit the open door. There is damage to the vehicle. Customer has spent nearly $2K at your site in the last 4 years. What do you do... Payout the damage claim?

Currently I operate a 3 bay automatic wash. I am looking into taking over a lease on a 6 Bay Self-Service carwash. I won't be personally running it our counting the cash we will have a manger in place. With our autos everything is auditable... So how do you guys track the revenue generated...

Does anyone know of ANY carwashes in Canada that can process Interac transactions on their Autocashiers? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Baker Easywash

Slip And Fall Personal Injury Upheld Due To Poor Maintenance Program Slip and Fall Personal Injury In this slip on ice personal injury case appeal (Foley v. Imperial Oil Limited,2011 BCCA 262) the injury claimant was injured at a car wash at an Esso service station in North Vancouver, British...

I just finished my 2 bay Dogwash. Went with National Pride Equipment and Petlift Tubs... The system is working great and the customers love it. I ended up going with an epoxy floor and used FRP on the Back and Seperating wall between the tubs. Plus I managed to work 2 Tubs into a 10x10...

We had a little excitement in front of the carwash yesterday morning :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNUcIUho3U The Olympic Torch Relay!

I need a little help from all you PDQ G5 owners out there... I recently had my Speed Controller go on one of my units... I just about hit the floor when I was told how much it would be for a new one. Just wondering if anyone else has had to replace a Speed Controller and what the cost was...

Hi, just wondering how you guys are charge for your dogwashes? By the minute? if so how much? Thanks

When you guys mount your meter boxes what height do you typically put them at off the floor? I've got a new dogwash going in I am concerned I've got it too high... Thanks in advance

It's official BC will be moving to and HST tax in May/June of 2010.... That adds 7% to the cost of all of the products we sell... :(

Is anyone else with a PDQ G5 having issues with their chemical injectors and the stainless injector blocks? I am going through injectors like there is no tomorrow and in the last year I've lost one injector block due to "Presoak Corrosion". I just saw this...

Back in the beginning of June PDQ said there was going to be a big announcement... Has anyone heard anything? I signed up for the webinar but never heard anything further...

Coincarwash... the other day I was on Google and I did a search for Vancouver, Carwash and your ads came up. Or at least I think they were yours. You may want to look into restricting your adds with Googles "Regional Advertising". You can limit our adds to IP addresses within 25Km or you can...

Hi, I am in the process of writing an operations manual for my 3 bay automatic facility. As I am writing it I can't help but think there must be some type of "template" or "boiler plate" type material out there. After all why re-invent the wheel. Has anyone seen anything like this out there...

I have a 3 Bay Automatic (but this is more of a self sever type question) and I thought it would be cool to put a pressurized tank in the base of my tellers with tire cleaner in it for my customers to use. I go from the 5 gallon tank through a bulkhead and out to a blue coiled hose with a...

I was at the wash last night doing my month end work. I was watching the VNC for one of my tellers and I saw a customer try a wash code... then another and another and another... by the time I saw him try at least 15 different times I knew he was up to something... I went downstairs, I wasn't...

I have a PDQ G5 and the way our bays are setup our doors are 10ft but the bays are 13.5ft wide. Ok so guy comes in with an audi A3. He drives into the bay and proceeds to drive up to within 1 ft of the left hand side of the bay. So in order to do this he's actually nearly a foot or more to the...