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I have not been on AutoCareForum since 2018 due to health problems. I rejoined recently to reconnect with many of my long-time customers. I manufactured the high security vending machine known as ShurVend that I began selling in 1999 to the car wash industry. I was in the self-serve business...

• “S”—SECURITY (Priority #1) of the vendor from theft and vandalism is assured by proper design of the steel cabinet, credit card protection, door, and being secured to a concrete pad or to a wall. The current versions of the ShurVend high security vendors have been found to be very effective...

The use of websites to provide information about our products has been shifted to the cheaper, more popular, and easier to use social media platform called FaceBook. Understanding how it works and learning the new keystrokes to use it have been somewhat frustrating at times. but, if my...

We have designed a security cover to protect the CryptoPay reader from vandalism such as knocking it off the vendor with a hammer. I do not understand why the “bad guys” want to do things like that; there’s no money in it. We have had Nayax readers blown off the front of the vendor, so we...

I started experimenting with new glass-front vendors with the latest technology in 1996 on my own washes using expanded steel mesh frames as security. Vending car wash items was difficult and not very successful because the vending helixes made just one 360 degree turn & didn’t always vend...

The car wash industry, either self-serve, express or full serve, has never had to deal with ADA requirements except maybe in their restrooms and using ramps instead of steps the same as other commercial businesses. Recently I have had experiences with operators building new or rehabbing an...

Hi All, This has been a very difficult year for me, but now my life is getting back to normal slowly but surely. I am looking forward to next year to get back to where ShurVend should be operating. New vending machines have been designed during the past 5 months which will be offered...

I have had a very difficult February and March, 2017 with some health problems of my own, but i am on the mend now which feels so good. The medical types do not know all the answers to some health problems, so some of us endure in spite of what they tell us. I am happy to report that i will...

I have been absent from the Forum for most of 2016 since my last post in May when I announced that I had to skip the Nashville show due to my wife’s health problems. She had continuing heath problems for the rest of the year until she had a massive stroke in late October. She spent the next...

I have put off making this Post because I had hoped things would work out. However they did not. It is with regret that I inform all of you that I will not be able to attend the show next week in Nashville. My wife has some health issues for which I need to stay home and be the care...

The Staff at ShurVend want to wish every member of our Forum family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy!!! Uncle Sam :):):)

To all Forum readers: We, at ShurVend Vendors, wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving time with your families and/or friends. Uncle Sam :)

It is not just in California, but the whole western U.S. has had a lack of rainfall and snow for a few years. Most of California would be classified as a desert with less than 10-inches of average rainfall in normal years except for the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the north-western corner of...

To All, The California drought and forest fires have been in the news media for many months now, so this post is about the fire only. I will leave my thoughts on the drought for another post. The reporters for the news media have a natural inclination to exaggerate everything. Since I...

The Car Wash Show will be starting in a little over a week and ShurVend will be exhibiting in Booth #130 this year. We will be showing our 32-selection high security VendPro-iG4B vending machine with the added security of horizontal bars for those wash sites that have a "difficult"...

All of us at ShurVend want to wish all of our customers and ACF readers a Happy New Year and may 2015 be good year for all of us in the car washing business. Uncle Sam :)

We were getting reports of vandalism on our older high security designs, so we had to step up and build a better product. We are doing some more work on making the the security of our vendors more robust for those car washes in those "difficult" areas that are having continual problems with...

We continue to study LED lighting for installation in our vendors and to retrofit our customer's older vendors that have the out-of-date fluorescent lighting. We have a new LED light module that has 6 5050 LEDs per module so it is a very high intensity lighting system. We developed a retrofit...

If my email is any indication everything has been “On Sale” for weeks!! ShurVend is joining the “On Sale” mind set. This past year we sold new vendors to longtime customers with older machines to upgrade their washes and accepted their high security ShurVend “51” and Visi-Combo vendors as...

On behalf of the staff at ShurVend, we want to wish all of our customers,distributors, and all of you who visit the ACF a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We would like to see more Peace on Earth and Good Will to All in the coming year. Uncle Sam :):)