What Does It Take To Succeed In A Car Wash Business?

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Does it take just guts, money or passion to succeed in a car wash business? Do you need all three to beat the competitions? There may be a lot of car wash businesses today in the market, but we’ll focus on one. Here are some kinds of a car wash business…

1. Hand car wash business - the company hires employees to manually clean cars using their own hands applying car shampoo and buffing.

2. Self-Service car wash business - generally, these are coin operated and car owners usually clean their own units.

3. In-bay automatic - vehicles are stationary and a certain automated machine goes back and forth to clean the cars

4. Tunnel car wash business- the car is loaded to a conveyor which goes to a tunnel full o cleaning facilities and mechanisms

5. Steam car wash business- Mostly known in some parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. It uses a jet of steam and microfiber towels to make it easy on the car’s paint

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Choosing a Location For Your Car Wash Business

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The proper location for any business is critical to its success. You have heard the old saying “Location, Location, Location!” when it comes to dealing with real estate and this fully applies to the car wash business. Once you have determined the population of your general potential area, and determined that is sufficient to support a new car wash, you then can start to look for the physical piece of land.

The size of the lot you will need is obviously going to depend, for one thing, on the size of the car wash you intend to build. A four bay car wash will need more physical space than a two bay. How many access points does a piece of property have? Are there access points from two or more different streets?

Some general rules of thumb for the lot it self are as follows:

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