Car Wash Blog / Self Serve Industry Blog and Forum
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These are the chemicals I purchased from the Erie Brush people. His son sells chemicals and the company is Simply Solutions Corporation Crestwood, IL. I purchased the APPEAL Blue Berry Clearcoat and the BERRY NICE Foaming Detergent. I do not think he has a web site though. I hope it works well.
Look crop circles in Birmingham, Alabama
I made it on a post at Crop Circle Connector or cropcircleconnector.com (to check out the post click HERE)! This was my goal…. I wanted to get in with the ufo earthfiles.com people. I really don’t even own car washes. Well, I hope that I can help out “windsong the researcher” with another picture in the future. For more information on ufos check out my other pictures:
First picture, of course, is the drone / flying fish picture (someone also emailed me to say it “might be a bird”. The second picture really is a ufo. Seriously.
I wanted to check out a couple things at the ICA show and self serve tire shine units was one of them. I talked to Joe DeNardis at the crowncarwashinc.com booth and really liked their self serve vendor. They also sell a full service applicator (middle picture). I really like this design because all my vacuums are the same design. The gun has a trigger on it and a stationary bristle brush. It also holds 5 gallons of product.
But the bigest selling point is the BioShine tire shine product. I request a sample and will test it out on a car tomorrow, so I will let you know how it works. But the product is silicon free which is a must for self serve bays, (more on that later) and is environmentally safe product. Maybe that is why the vendor is green?
The Blendco Black Diamond vendor is like a stand alone Fragramatic fragrance machine. But they also sell a self serve bay setup. I liked the bay setup but they use a crappy Flojet pump (at least for a 5 bay unit I asked about) and is seems a little expensive (Maybe that is why the show special was half price?) for what you get. The gun looks exactly like a Fragramatic fragrance gun with a swivel on the end and a metal brace for a pad. The idea is to spray the tire down then scrub it in with the rotating pad thing. I did not really care for the gun setup and it just seems like the pad would not last very long (If I remember correctly, if you purchase their product they will send you free pads?). But the worse part was something I never even thought about. The silicon based Blendco tire shine will make your bays super slippery. If you have ever gone to a wash with a Simonize Tire Shiner (I guess any tire shiner?) you will know what I am talking about. Around the tire shiner and maybe 10 feet away will be an ice rink. But to be fair the Bendco sales people said that you just need to high pressure it off ever day. Not really sure how effective that would be?
But I did get my sample of BioShine that I requested from the ICA show so I will give it a try tomorrow and give you an update. It will be interesting how a non-silicon based product works.
Have you ever made a hot dog in the microwave? Do you like boiled hot dogs? Why not do both? That is what I did today. This is very hard so make sure to follow all the directions. 1) Purchase hot dogs, 2) Find microwave, 3) Fill bowl with water, 4) Put bowl in microwave.
5) Cook for 4 minutes until they float, 6) Eat. Yummy!
A muddy day today, all the bays. Also, they found a new path to do that truck “red neck thing”.
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I checked out carwashbrokers.comat the ica show and noticed that my Dad’s express wash was for sale. Seems like a pretty good web site, if you want to purchase more car washes.
I was suprised that John is a broker now. I remember talking to him at the ICA Texas show after he sold his car wash. He used to be on the board of secwa also. [email protected] if you want to spam him.
Next time I am in the hospital, I will ask: Are you going to transport my patient information or throw at the closest car wash?
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My Rowe International changer had a unique problem today, which I never had before. The CCC error was “VALIDATING” and the transporter was just running non-stop and no bills were in the changer or were accepted since my last visit.
Using Rowe International seems so much more official then plain old Rowe changer. I think maybe if I respect the changer maybe it will work for a couple days without any problems?
I know when I want good ribeye steaks I do not goto Denny’s, I just pull over to the ribeye tent on the side of the road. You know… the one that has the big “20 Ribeye’s for $25.00”.
