Vegas Show!

[MeridianCarWash]

Quick question: is it worth $499 for the premium pass or is the $149 pass good enough for the Vegas ICA Show? If the "premium education program" is about relevant stuff like how to rebuild a pump, troubleshoot equipment, repair change machines, and other stuff like that it sounds great. If it's more sales type stuff, then I'm not terribly interested. Any thoughts?

 

[MEP001]

It's not going to be basic repair or troubleshooting, no. There is plenty of helpful info about things like how to market your wash or finance a new one. A lot of vendors do have "car wash college," but not at the shows. They're there to make sales.

 

[MC3033]

More seminar based education. Mostly (but not all) targeted at tunnels/chain. You should be able to find a list of seminars. If it isn’t out for this year you can look at last year (well 2019) to get a feel for it

 

[Randy]

Go for the $149 pass. The convention is geared primarily to the tunnel operators. You'll see very little about the self serve industry. I doubt that they'll be any seminars about anything to do with the self serve industry. We used to go every year, looked forward to going. We haven't been in a few years, there isn't much there anymore for the self serve operator. I haven't decide if we are going this year.

 

[MeridianCarWash]

Thanks for the info. I guess I'll spend the $350 I save on registration at the dice tables!

 

[cooll903]

what are some of the best ones to go to for self serve and IBAs?

 

[Randy]

what are some of the best ones to go to for self serve and IBAs?

Here are a few
The Southwest car wash convention is one of the better conventions https://swcarwash.org/

Southeast car wash convention is a good convention https://secwa.org/

Northeast car wash convention https://nrccshow.com/

 

[Greg Pack]

what are some of the best ones to go to for self serve and IBAs?

Kleen Rite Fall Expo would likely be the best.

 

[Randy]

Kleen Rite Fall Expo would likely be the best.

The fall Kleen-rite Expo is a good show to go to. We've been to that one a couple of times.

 

[John T]

The next scheduled Kleen-Rite Expo will be in November 2022

 

[cooll903]

The next scheduled Kleen-Rite Expo will be in November 2022

thanks Democrats... i mean covid.