Reviving a $6,000 Shampoo Vac | Diagnosis & Repair of an IVS Carpet Wizard

[@andrewsmall6568]

Greetings from England. I have no idea why i'm watching a dude from America repair his car wash, but i guess engineers will always be engineers! Anyway great video, keep it up and looking forward to seeing the fully finished car wash!

[@therevestor]

Thats interesting. The algorithim must know what you like to watch haha

[@SCICU2]

That’s a cool unit! Definitely worth the repair costs. You’ll have no problem recouping your investment.

[@WJCTechyman]

I'm late to the game but for machines like these, there are probably rebuild kits for items like your compressor and fluid pumps and the vac motors can probably be refurbished, but you really need to know what you're doing there as well. They aren't serviceable like the motors in my Rainbow vacuums but there can be limited service done to them like replacement bearings and a set of new brushes. They may be standard Ametek Lamb vac motors as most of them resemble that. The one problem with some of those motors is the fact that there's a mix of peripheral discharge and tangential discharge and if these units actually pick up water, the motors really should be tangential dicharge with the exhaust horn with the appropriate plumbing so the watery exhaust doesn't get into the electric side of the motor. Either that or there should be a barrier plate sitting on top of the fan case to separate the vacuum exhaust from the electric cooling side.

[@joseph.shammami9525]

Hey. The. Revestor. I. Love. Car. Wash. Shampoo. Vacuums

[@therevestor]

Thanks for always jumping on and leaving a comment

[@joseph.shammami9525]

Hey. The. Revestor. Jason. Let’s. Become. Friends. In. Person. Please. What. Do. Say. ?

[@jasoncantrell1737]

I just purchased 7 of these vacs and all came from a Hoffman Car Wash too. I’ve been told the shampoo function isn’t worth the effort. Are you customers using it?

[@harm76]

Dude! Awesome information! Im in the same situation, just about to close on a carwash that needs some tlc.

[@adrian_ramirez28]

I would highly recommend buying new vacuum domes it will make your vacuums look like new again

[@therevestor]

I really should. Over $100 though so its a little tough to justify.

[@zephyrsman]

I would recommend blowing all the dirt & dust from the top section. Looks like it could use it. Makes working in it the next time a little cleaner. Hope you can get everything you need to service that $6000 investment piece.

[@therevestor]

Good tip!

[@TheGamingJayM]

Great sweat equity 💪🏽

[@therevestor]

Appreciate that!

[@jeremybowen3097]

Why Nayax card readers? Do they let you do stored value cards?

[@therevestor]

Like prepaid cards yes you can also get key channel dongles or other types of payments. I activate the wash from an app on my phone for customers all the time.

[@cutthecurve5726]

Does it suck water too?

[@therevestor]

Yes it sucks water after the shampoo function is complete

[@EluderRacing]

lol love it "awesome motorcycle dude" is that code for annoying dude that needs to rev his motor and let everyone know he drives a Harley lol

[@Therian_Lola_4.3]

With card reader do $3.50

[@therevestor]

Thats probably right where I should be.