From reading the postings of someone here connected with Ryko, I thought, golly, maybe they have turned over a new leaf. new ownership and everything. So I called my local distributor, CWE&S, to order a part. This time they did not refuse to sell it to me. They just have not gotten back to me with a price and availability. Called about five times now over a week. Last call was to someone in management. "We'll get right back to you on that." Either they are so incompetent that they can not look up a price, or they simply do not have the character to tell me they won't sell it to me. This is just a fine example of how to run a professional organization.
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Thank you Ryko
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I was referring to Ryko being sold a while ago by Nelson and Kline. I hadn't tried to do anything with them since then. Thought maybe the new owner might be different. Sounds like sameo sameo though. Parts only to Ryko dealers, and some dealers still insisting that the customer use Ryko soap, or no service. I was looking for an air cylinder used on their famous fleet wash. I think it's called a 2000 something. I found the part through another source.The owner is Enterprise car rental, and they are very aware of this. It is one of the reasons that no Ryko machines have been put in the rental fleet here in some time now. It's almost fun to see them keep shooting themselves in the foot. I like to bring this up so that people considering this brand are fully informed of the way they conduct themselves. I could go on quite a while "bashing" this thing. For instance on this machine there are two air cylinders, proprietary of course, and about a dozen prox sensors. On their biggest competitors machine, the NS, there are no air cylinders and no prox switches at all. And it does the exact same job. Just cheaper and more reliably.
RykoPro
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mac,
You bash Ryko? Hard to believe!
FYI Jim Nelson is the CEO of Ryko.
I have replaced some of these old machines with the Nova 2000 and simpler is not always better. I could hang a rag from the ceiling and spray water on it and call it a carwash (that might even clean better than some of these old low tech drive through fleet washes). The first Nova 2000 I put in washed over 25,000 cars a month down at the New Orleans airport.
What have you got against air cylinders and prox switches, too new fangled? They work better than whisker switches with the ropes and weights I have seen others use. You were able to find the air cylinder and yet you still complain, where do you find the time?
This idea that Ryko will not service a wash if they do not use Ryko chemical is more of you bull$hit hearsay. I would like to see proof of that. Please keep your rumors down in the swamp.
You bash Ryko? Hard to believe!
FYI Jim Nelson is the CEO of Ryko.
I have replaced some of these old machines with the Nova 2000 and simpler is not always better. I could hang a rag from the ceiling and spray water on it and call it a carwash (that might even clean better than some of these old low tech drive through fleet washes). The first Nova 2000 I put in washed over 25,000 cars a month down at the New Orleans airport.
What have you got against air cylinders and prox switches, too new fangled? They work better than whisker switches with the ropes and weights I have seen others use. You were able to find the air cylinder and yet you still complain, where do you find the time?
This idea that Ryko will not service a wash if they do not use Ryko chemical is more of you bull$hit hearsay. I would like to see proof of that. Please keep your rumors down in the swamp.
