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Poll: Has your car wash been ....

Has your car wash experienced any of the following?

  • Theft (unarmed)

    Votes: 12 46.2%
  • Criminal-based Property Damage (due to attempted theft, spray paint, etc.)

    Votes: 20 76.9%
  • Theft (armed and/or violent in nature)

    Votes: 2 7.7%
  • None

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • Total voters
    26

STXCW

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Graffiti comes and goes.

Theft, not as of late but it's coming. School will be out in a few months and there will be some bored hood rats that will think breaking into the local car wash is a good idea for extra cash.
 

sjb

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Since we made the conversion to only dispensing tokens, and accepting CC’s, the theft issue has seemed to dissipate….

However, all the other fun games and challenges of car wash ownership have been amplified…

Who needs some used tires….?
 

Randy

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I don’t know where to start. In the last 6 months we’ve had so many break-ins it’s hard to keep them all straight. In one night we had 6 bill changers ripped from the walls, in one night within 45 minutes we had 2 car washes broken into, on a busy Sunday morning 4 people cut open the equipment room walked and helped themselves, one of the customers got great pictures of their Stolen van with no license plates. It’s pretty hard to protect your property when they use a gas powered concrete saw or a 20-volt Dewalt grinder. We have great video and have filed police report but they aren’t to interested in solving property crime. The self-serve car wash business is such a bull $hit business.
 

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This whole thread reinforces the reasoning behind going cashless. Of those that selected "none", how many are cashless?

At a point it's not worth the headache. The cost of the break-ins exceeds the cash revenue (be it wasted time, equipment restoration cost, or lost money).

Every state needs to reduce the threshold for felony theft to $0.01
 
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