Washnshine,
we were generally looking at Simoniz liquid acid cleaner which runs at a 1.5 ph as listed in the sds, assuming it’s somewhat higher than that with some mix ratio with water. Our current wheel cleaner is clean white advertised as 10.5 ph before the dilution and delivery to the bay.
Greg Pack,
I feel that i’ve Confused things by saying pre-soak in my original post. I should have stated wheel cleaner. I wouldn’t want to change my pre-soak for every bay with citrus acid, but i’d entertain changing the wheel cleaner to citrus acid in all the bays for simplicity. And yes I have one open switch position in all the bays. There is an “off” function at both the 12:00 and 6:00 position on the dial. I could leave all the bays as they are except the truck bay and replace one off position with the citrus acid by adding a pump and tank in the pump room.
Mac,
The customer came to us from one of the truck washes in town. They probably have no idea what was being used other than it was citrus acid because it was a wash out and the employees at that location washed for the drivers. That particular truck wash decided to get into competition with this company, obviously, my customer will not wash there any more and came to us with a decent sized account. Since we have no experience with any citrus acid I told them we would do some research and get back to them. Not sure how much value is actually added by offering it, especially with the haz handling up charge.
Thanks to all for your advice