WATER WIZARD 2.0

Okay, so being new to the forum/discussion I will give a brief history.

My boss currently owns a number of companies including one of which I currently work for, a wrecking yard. He is currently in the process of acquiring yet another business, which is what leads me to here.

He is purchasing a car wash, that currently has the Water Wizard 2.0 system in it. It has 2 automatic car wash bays, as well as 3 "do it yourself" bays (as you can see I have no experience in the car wash industry as of yet, so forgive me if I don't know the correct terminologies yet).
He has asked me to do the maintenance and up keep on this system in addition to my current job at his wrecking and towing yard.

Before I make a full commitment to doing this I am curious about the level of difficulty and or level of expertise is required.

If "maintenance" also includes housekeeping, repairs, etc. figure on spending 20 to 25 hours a week on site.

You can gain some perspective of what is involved and level of difficulty by visiting this link.

http://www.dultmeier.com/literature/startacarwash.asp

I would not use this to start a new wash but it does contain the information you want.

Hope this helps.

Yeah, its going to pretty much be doing everything in, on and around the facility. He bought the business for his son. The guy that had been doing the maintenance work for the previous owner, has openly admitted that he's not into computers so never really figured out that aspect of the facility, and said if he reads the manual, it just gets him all confused so he usually just winged it. So I'm kinda thinking that any quality insight or training won't be coming from this gentleman. I will check out the link that you posted, thank you.

It depends wether your going to commit to visit the wash frequently if not as much care or quality running equipment no one will go through that will be that grubby wash and you need to make shure its clean

Water Wizards 2.0s are fairly technical pieces of equipment. Touch free units that size cars require sensors and eyes to determine car size and position of the gantry in the wash process. If you are "handy" and can perform some basic electric troubleshooting you can pick up on repairs, but it will be initially a steep learning curve. You will need local support from a service company, at least in the beginning.

If you are cleaning up a carwash plan on a minimum of two visits per day, three on weekends would be helpful if the business is good. If you are just going to be in charge of maintaining the equipment and someone else will be cleaning up, my guess is it should take about five-seven hours per week on average. But it will be more likely very sporadic, with some weeks requiring just a couple of hours and some weeks requiring twenty hours of your time.

I try to observe the automatics wash daily and check for leaks or clogged nozzles, as well as proper solution application. The water wizards have bearings that are supposed to greased weekly (about a 30 minute job per unit). That's the easy stuff. Chasing gremlins on the machine that has about eight pairs of photoeyes and about ten proximity switches can eat up tons of time. That's where a good service tech will be invaluable until you learn whats going on.