A car wash business is an attractive investment opportunity for astute business owners and entrepreneurs.
Whether it’s the desire to become self-employed and run your own business, or a profitable addition to your existing business or premises, a car wash provides many proven opportunities for financial success.
Comparing Locations for Car Wash Business
When it comes to choosing a location for your car wash business or comparing different locations, first ask yourself the following questions:
Are the property locations you are considering suitable for a car wash? Are there any limiting Council regulations?
Who are the local and commuter customer demographics likely to visit your car wash?
Does the location and demographics support the equipment and investment you are considering?
For example, your preferred site may not have the traffic or population to justify an investment in a high volume tunnel but it could be a great location for a rollover or self-serve equipment. Conversely, high traffic areas like shopping centres and compact, busy locations might provide more volume than a rollover machine could handle.
Choosing The Right Car Wash Equipment
Once the preliminary regulations and design criteria is in order, your next decision will be choosing the right equipment and relable supply partner.For more information on Choosing the Right Car Wash Equipment for Your Car Wash Business, you can visit our guide to starting a business below:Equipment Choices
Equipment Choices
Assuming you’re building from the ground up, your first step is to determine what type of car wash equipment best suits your budget, any site constraints and, importantly, the needs of our customers. Car wash equipment options include:
Automatic soft wash rollover,
Touchless chemical wash,
Automatic combination soft wash and touchless equipment,
Self-serve multi bays units, and
Conveyorised high volume wash tunnel.
Supply Partner
Your supply partner’s role is not just to sell car wash equipment. Their role is to work with you throughout the entire set up process and, importantly, support you in the ongoing business operations.
Take advantage of their industry knowledge and expertise. It’s one of the best resources you’ll have.
Your car wash equipment supplier should have extensive industry expertise and experience working with architects and designers.
When you choose Good Sight as your supply partner, we’ll work closely with you to provide assistance and advice on all aspects of the car wash design and construction process. This includes assessing customer traffic flow, underground works, compliance, and much more. We can work with your builder and any trades to ensure equipment installation progresses smoothly and within budget.
Grand Opening Car Wash Business
The final stage is the set up and commissioning of the equipment. This usually entails a ‘soft’ opening to make the facility familiar to your patronage and customers.
With final checks made, you’re now ready for the grand opening… Online and offline marketing should be used to local and commuter customers aware of your new business. An enticing introductory offer is a great way to attract new customers and, potentially, hijack them from competitors.
Ongoing Support From Your Car Wash Eauipment Supplier
Now your car wash business is open, your supply partner should be available to support you every step of the way. This should include availability of consumables and, most importantly, access to flexible service and maintenance contract options.
The support of a reputable supply partner will give you peace of mind that the ongoing maintenance of your facility is in tip-top operational condition. This eliminates downtime and ensures your customers leave your facility completely satisifed.
The Good Sight team provide all this and so more
Get in Touch
If you have any questions about setting up a car wash facility, don’t hesitate to contact our team for advice. We’re here to help.
Mattias – Car Wash Machines is a subsidiary of Balance Group. which is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development and production of fully automatic car washing machine equipment. The company is located in Shanghai, China. The main automatic car washing machines mainly include: self service car wash machine, conveyor car wash equipment(Tunnel Car Wash Machine), fully automatic gantry car washing machines(Inbay Automatic Car Wash Machines), touchless car washing machines(Contactless Car Wash Machine), and bus truck washing machines. No need for manual duty, computer intelligent control, the car washing machine is divided into brush car wash machine and brushless car washing machine to meet different car washing needs such as gas stations and auto beauty shops.
