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WE ASK.<br />

YOU ANSWER.<br />

The following poll was posted<br />

to carwashforum.com. If you<br />

would like to add your vote,<br />

or a comment, visit:<br />

carwashforum.com or follow the<br />

QR code:<br />

POLL: Plans for 2024<br />

What are you going<br />

to accomplish at your<br />

car wash this year?<br />

Install lp salt neutralizer and bug remover in<br />

self serve bays including ten position rotary<br />

switches. Install 5 more security cameras Put<br />

up new “car wash” plastic letters on building. -<br />

WAXMAN<br />

Add booms to my vac Islands. Replace floor<br />

heat boiler with an instant tankless system. -<br />

TIMMB<br />

Remove rust and repaint the roof, re-sheet 2<br />

bays, and re-build 1 of the equipment rooms.<br />

- DESIGNFLAW<br />

Replace and reface pole sign with new graphics,<br />

and add an ATM. - MUDMONEY<br />

Tidy up our landscaping. Get the bays painted<br />

to freshen them up. I keep saying “When I<br />

have time...” but that doesn’t happen, so we<br />

will hire a painter. Keep our clean up staff,<br />

who have been excellent. - GREG_T<br />

All new mitter and brush microfiber/foam/<br />

nylon in the tunnel. - WASHNSHINE<br />

Raising the start up time to $4 for 4 minutes<br />

and offer 3 minutes free when they use 8<br />

minutes. - JMMUSTANG<br />

I installed new coin boxes last month. I’m<br />

going to put new decals on the vacuums and<br />

seal coat the lot. A good “spring cleanup”. - BILL<br />

CAPRON<br />

POLL:<br />

No rest for the turkey<br />

Are you open on<br />

Thanksgiving?<br />

Open 365 days a<br />

year! - 2BIZ<br />

Why would we<br />

want to close,<br />

it’s a busy time<br />

of the year. The<br />

only time we<br />

close is when it’s<br />

too snowy or icy. -<br />

RANDY<br />

Yes: 100%<br />

Yep I was at my wash this morning washing<br />

down bays and washing towels. - WAXMAN<br />

Open @ 23 degrees and overcast, lite traffic<br />

mostly hunters from out of state. - MUDMONEY<br />

One of the busiest days of the year! No way we<br />

close. Everyone wants to clean their car before<br />

going to mom’s for turkey! - RFREEMAN<br />

REMEMBERING<br />

MEP001<br />

It was a sad day when<br />

we learned that frequent<br />

carwashforum-user MEP001,<br />

Miles Edwards Parris, passed<br />

away. He was a helpful and<br />

active member of the self<br />

serve community and his<br />

posts were fun and plentiful.<br />

He joined the forum in August<br />

2007 and as of his passing,<br />

he posted 16,667 times.<br />

Just 58 years old, Parris was from Round<br />

Rock, Texas. According to his obituary,<br />

“After attending high school Miles went<br />

on to work in the commercial car wash<br />

business. He was an expert in all<br />

aspects of the business—management,<br />

leasing, car wash technology,<br />

technician, safe cleaning solutions,<br />

environmental factors, supplies, sales,<br />

maintenance, and repair.<br />

He passed away on October 7, 2023. He<br />

is also survived by his beloved girlfriend Terri<br />

Gosnell.<br />

Terri took to the carwash forum to post about his<br />

passing. She also mentioned that the forum was his<br />

second home.<br />

“Miles left us Saturday morning at 5:30am. This is<br />

such a tragedy. He was a brilliant, funny man. He had<br />

the kindest heart with the sharpest tongue. Please, look<br />

after your health. We are not invincible. Forgive often and<br />

express kindness and love. Thank you for all the kind<br />

wishes,” she wrote.<br />

Terri also added, “He truly did work very hard all of<br />

his life and had refined his craft. The last few years<br />

we have been able to enjoy life a little and slow<br />

down so I am grateful for that. He did not<br />

have a large circle in the offline world but<br />

you guys made up for it. You were the<br />

ones he wanted to interact with. He loved<br />

sharing his tips and tricks and he was full<br />

of them. Aside from the hole this has left<br />

in my heart, I know that it has left a huge<br />

hole in the car wash community. I had been<br />

urging him to write a book of some sort so<br />

that this knowledge would not be lost. I wish he<br />

had. Today I spent the day figuring out how to get the<br />

foam brush up and working at a wash and also helped<br />

assemble some pump plumbing he had been working on.<br />

I feel like he was hanging around, cursing us and praising<br />

us. I honestly thought I’d never be able to look at another<br />

car wash after all this. Maybe I will pick up the mantle<br />

and carry on. I just don’t know. It’s crushing to do this<br />

without him but I don’t think he’d want the business to<br />

crash. I will probably lurk in here to pick up information.<br />

I hope it won’t freak anyone out. He’d be tickled if<br />

someone thought he was haunting the place…”<br />

40 • WINTER 2024<br />

WINTER 2024 • 41

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