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Started in 1969 with our first carwash, a rollover later converted into a tunnel June Essenburg founded the Quality Car Wash company in Holland Michigan. Today currently we own and operate 4 locations in the West Michigan area. Our success we contribute much to the product. Clean, Shiny, Dry cars to the highest standard. You can ask anyone in the region where the best car wash is and they will tell you ours because of the attention to quality of the car. This is also recognized by a study the International car wash association produced that also states customers number one most important thing when getting a car wash is the quality of the wash. We do this through the highest quality equipment, and detergents to wash the car combined with great customer service, and the other aspects of the wash process.

We have been able to achieve over 600,000 cars in a single year between 3 of our locations all within a city of only 35,000 people. Our three locations lie within a three mile radius of eachother, two locations even being on the same road! By dominating the market with a high quality brand that we built to have a quality clean reputation we can achieve a high rate of return customers. Our records include when Tom Essenburg managed our 8th street location washing two busy winter days back to back 2,505 cars and 2,506 the next day. As well as at our newest facility a 180' system producing 206 cars in a single hour.

Today Tommy Car Wash Systems™ is our way of sharing with you the tools we developed to accomplish this great level of success. It's important you have the proper tools behind your wash and it's more then equipment, it's one of the largest assets you will invest in and it controls the experience your customers will receive. The shiny stainless arches, the bright acrylic roof tunnels, flashing signs and lights arn't just fun, it's all business and all made for the bottom line ROI. We have assisted with the development of several hundred car washes around the world all based on principles we have founded and developed at Quality Car Wash in a small city called Holland, Michigan. We hope we can bless your business with our experiences and our successful car wash history.

After having been Hannah distributors and Peco distributors about 20 years ago Tom and June Essenburg linked up with a company called A.V.W. equipment in Chicago, IL. A small company growing rapidly we we're able to use our car washes to develop and enhance A.V.W.'s products. After distributing A.V.W.'s products nationwide we decided to break off into a niche of express washing. Express car washes have been around for 40 years and all our facilities had been express so we already new what was needed when keeping a customer in control of their car throughout the wash process. An experience that would wow them from beginning to end. We went into the the system and reinvented, redesigned, and continually develop and improve every part of the system to be able to buid higher production equipment with a greater return. We have since been called the "Apple" of car wash equipment with our trendy yet classy designs, and modern carwash look.

What have we done. Tommy Car Wash Systems throughout the last several years has created, a revolutionary product line designed by the car wash expert Tom Essenburg. We set out to create the perfect car wash system and have acomplished our goal. Having 40 years of experience in the car wash industry we have seen many thing come and go.

A while back we sat down and planned out what the future, and the ideal wash would look like. Here is some of what we came up with:

  • The ideal wash system needs to be simple and low maintenance.
  • It needs to be easy to install and easy to maintain.
  • It needs to be complete and turn-key style for begginer operators.
  • It needs to produce high and low volume with efficiency.
  • It needs to be appealing to your customers.
  • It needs to cause low or no customer claims.
  • It needs to turn out the highest quality clean consistantly.

We feel we have met our goal, and thats why we have now released our system. Though this is not a stopping point, as technology moves, we continue to move.

Why? We asked ourselves why do other manufacturers offer an operator many miscellaneous equipment parts and let the operator have the headache of learning as they go. We said, lets take our headaches from the last 40 years, and develop whats works, and get rid of what doesn't. Thats exactly what the Tommy Signature package is. Its the final product, tweaked to the finest detail, combined into one system with the things the work. We do not believe in selling people a lower grade, or a mid grade system, thats why we only offer one. What operator in their right mind would want a system that isn't 100% quality 100% of the time. Maybe your thinking, "sounds expensive?" Not really, because we have an extremely efficient manufacturing process we can produce stainless steel for virtually the same cost as others can produce aluminum and powercoat steel. Also by producing a stamp out type mass produced perfect system. Not to mention the resale value of stainless steel equipment in the second hand market (Nearly 50%!)

What does it mean to be franchise like? With our new pre-designed site models we are able to provide huge value to new investors and existing operators by making for a better business. The lack of chains and franchises leaves us in an inefficient way of doing business. By creating a franchise like system we are able to save tons of money in initial development and ongoing process. Things like:

  • Site design efficiency, already perfected and design & development costs paid for.
  • Training program build around duplicated processes.
  • Easier to manage same design places - duplication value
  • Area development agreements to allow protected regions for building a brand.
  • Construction efficiency, save as much as 20%
  • Backoffice systems, manuals, procedures all included.
  • Remote control site monitoring from central office.
  • Easier to buy, sell, trade locations.
  • Support system for ongoing education. Top producers club
  • Supply system for ongoing purchases, chemicals and parts at discounted prices.

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It is the mission of Tommy Car Wash Systems to be ther leader in the Car washing industry in the following areas;

Research and Development. It has played a key roll in Tommy Car Wash Systems. We saw the car wash industry as a key area for innovation with the ever changing automobile industry. With all the change we envisioned the car washing equipment package of the future. Then we developed it. But rather than ending there we will stay developing bacause it is always an ongoing process. What the future holds will amaze us all. And it is in our efforts that we will keep amazing you with innovation.

Customer Satisfaction. This is a key to our mission. We would like to help you not only successfully construct your first wash, but be able to do it over and over, duplicating yourself as much as you would like. We realize that your first wash package is just the first and that you shall prosper and build many more so it is our mission to provide the best products and best support to complete sale after sale.

Bettering the lives of everyone. This is important to the people behind Tommy Car Wash Systems. By helping grow people, commerce, and spirit. Our mission is to better the lives of our employees, our distributors, our representatives, and our customers financially and personally.

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