High pressure hose explodes at my car wash! Water everywhere.

A high pressure line explodes at my car wash… and starts a chain of failures resulting in another fun video from car wash land!

[@dammitbobby283]

Wrap the new hose in Nylon Hose Sleeving. It's the same stuff used on hydraulic hoses on new tractors. It costs less than $1 per foot.

[@w49660]

Interesting connectors, thanks for showing them. On another topic, when will you have the video where you replace the other connectors and those short hoses, since if 1 and 2 blew out, it probably means 3, 4, and 5 aren't far behind.... or is the cost of lost water and business less than the connectors and seals?

[@normalcarwash]

Honestly, I'm trying to ride these out until the end of the month, and my "new to me" automatics will be delivered and I can replace these aging systems. It's not so much the cost of water that gets me, it's the customer sitting in the bay with nothing coming out while the tower goes around, or worse, the pump loses its supply and runs dry and blows itself up.

[@dammitbobby283]

7:08 That interior framing on the ceiling has structural corrosion. Maybe replace that beam before it falls on a car along with the wash carriage.

[@normalcarwash]

It's all getting replaced at the end of this month, hopefully, if everything goes well. The wash doesn't hang from the roof, thankfully, it's tied to the CMU wall, so the only thing the C-channel is only holding up the metal roof.

[@dammitbobby283]

@@normalcarwash Both auto wash bays have been down since 2019 and the years before that they both alternate being down. The auto wash is a money pit.

[@dammitbobby283]

@@normalcarwash It needs a drink machine at the front door ASAP. I would also rent a monthly parking space to a Mexican food truck and locate it at the front corner of the property next to the side street as close to the street as legally possible. Lol, no joke, there's some kind of connection between Mexican food and car wash. Test to see Ig you can get paid by the food truck and make it generate more traffic on the property for the car wash. Basically get paid to advertise.

[@normalcarwash]

@@dammitbobby283 Well, I didn't own it then.... and that's why I've got replacements in line. The goal is to make it NOT a money pit anymore!