fastest and best IBA?

Looking at Oasis Typhoon. Any comments on design?

I have a typhoon and the machine bust ballz, a few gliches in the beginning but will out clean any other IBA out there in half the time. They say it does 40 cars an hour but I'm Tapping out around 28-30. did the research and spent the extra money and did it rite!

Did Ronnie put that in for you?

Yes he did

I have 2 of them. They do a good job but seem to be a bit over engineered and break down much more than I think is acceptable. I compare it to my PDQ 4000 which I can go 4-5 months without doing anything but greasing and airing up tires. My Oasis machines have only had both up at the same time 6 weeks out of the last 5 months.

wow, where are you and who the hell installed them, I would Be BS if I were you

The Typhoon should be the fastest for frictionless iba washing.

The best, however, is generally what ever you own ;) I operate 4000's but most iba's can clean when set up properly. The real question is who is the best equipment distributor in your area. Honestly, everything else can be easily worked with except a bad distributor. You will need them to help with service until you get comfortable doing it yourself. You will also need them to be able to quickly get parts to you and correctly answer all your service and chemical questions.

My question is WHY does every typhoon that I see have DENTS all over the stainless arms!!!???? I know they came from hitting cars. I am not a distributor, just an operator, but I have NEVER gotten a straight answer on that. They always himm and haw about it, or make excuses that it wasn't set properly. So you are saying ALL the machines that I have visited were not set properly and Tacoed cars!? I am not willing to take the risk of having that happen, and even if it is in the beginning, it looks to me that it happens to ALL typhoons.

PEI is right, unless you are a dynamo wiz on fixing your own equipment, the best eq, is whoever has the best distributor support HANDS DOWN. I dont care if you can do a million cars an hour. If you are down, you are doing exatcly zero.

Have a typhoon and the dings and black marks are from morons pulling in to tight on one side and hitting the mirrors on the arms. only a few marks on mine but we have tall cones that look like pylons at the entrance door and it guides them in straight. we don't have ours come in closer to the car, you can but we opted not. any machine people will bang the mirrors on but typhhon has metal arms so the scrapes are left behind. still the machine rocks like no other machine. You should only own a carwash if you know how to fix it, that my theroy. typhhon will out clean any IBA in half the time!

Typhoon

I agree that it does (when working) do a car faster than any other touch free IBA on the market. I just dont understand why the don't make the arms with a neoprene foam cover like the ww or m5. It would definately make me look at purchasing. I used to have a distributorship, and to ask the operator to know everything about his/her wash is not realistic. I know the ins and outs of my washes, but that is only because I was in service and installation for 14 years. If you have a good distributor for whatever it is, it will put your mind at ease. Even if you know your eq. inside and out, what happens if you go on vacation? Again, that is where a great distributor is key. And they are far and few between... 2g8carwashes, that is the straightest typhoon I have ever seen :) You have your customers trained well :)

It’s all in the programming. A top wash is standard 5 minutes for a clean dry car. I will put anything PDQ has to offer against anything else on the market including a typhoon. As long as it’s a comparable wash. (that actually cleans and dries the car) The PDQ machine will do it just as fast, and use less water and a lot less chemicals (for you typhoon guys). Don’t be fooled by the videos that Oasis has put out that puts the Typhoon against a g5 doing 2 rinse passes with an on board dryer. Remember like I said its all in the programming.

with all do respects but 5 minutes! My touchfree is a little over a minute for a base wash and a little over 3 minutes for our top wash with trifoam, wheel cleaner, under and clearcoat plus rockers blasters. Customers can't believe how much quicker and cleaner there car is in our typhoon. I would need two lasers to keep up with my one typhoon. Didn't need to watch the videos to see how much quicker typhoon is. timed the competitors in my own city for 6 months. rainy days it was me washing in all the local IBA's with a stop watch. Oasis has develpoed multi tasking in an IBA. multi functions on four independent wash arms spit cars out quick! But you are rite I have seen typhhons mis programmed where it's 5 minutes plus, I will give you that HOMER programming and service is key in any wash. I'm not knocking any one elses machine, believe that, but the topic is best and quickest IBA. My typhoon wasn't cheap but only have room for one at my location and had to get the best in my own judgement.

There are 5 factors of cleaning, time being one of them. In a touch free car wash dwell time is very important. That is very impressive that you car clean a car in 3 minutes, and not sacrifice quality. Also the fact that your customers don’t feel ripped for paying 8 dollars? for a 3 minute IBA wash. The Oasis distributor is very weak in my area (as discussed earlier a very important factor in choosing equipment) actually I think they are doing Nu Star now, So that shows you how bad they really were with Oasis. I must not have a fair comparison base. Anyways, you and your customers are happy. At the end of the day that’s all that matters.

we get plenty of dwell when you have five surfaces being covered at once, unlike a standard 3 surface in a vector or laser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQRlv3iZY-c

Here is a g5 doing a top wash in 3:40. Wash time is from when the car stops to the time the dryer comes on. One question, in your wash do you stack the tri-color on top of the presaok? or is there a rinse in between?

with the on board dryer your still at 5 and half minutes, no stacking chems, just presoak 1 and rim cleaner come out together, diffrent nozzles

but our top wash goes presoak 1+wheel cleaner(slow) back then presoak 2 towards the front(fast), then rockers towards the back(medium) then high pressure rinse returning to the front again(fast). then tri foam from front to back(fast), then slow high pressure rinse with clear coat from rear of car to front, then dryaid (fast)from front to back of car then spotree(fast) from rear of car returning home. A sedan took 2:28 seconds this morning I'm gonna time a SUV and TRuck later

a top wash for a Full size chevy pickup took 3:01 minutes

My oassis machines suck both down this week. The y cables fail all the time, and every time something new breaks they say " Oh yea, we upgraded that". My machines are in Yukon Oklahoma and installed by Hoydale. But the installation is not the problem, they just are not very relaible machines.

I have other washes with 4000's and M5's. They are not as fast but make more money since they are rarely down, and I can fix them in no time.

Well have you looked at x-tremes I've had it for 1 and a half years and no gliches or problems uses a fricton cleen in a touchless bay cleans a black car and really quick out beat any oasis system I guarentee it