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A red KKE X1.1 rollover car wash seen low and close from inside its bay, both vertical brushes hanging from the portal either side of the horizontal roof brush, under a storm sky

KKE X1.1 · the volume rollover

The brushes tell the machine how hard they are pressing.

X1.1 carries the same three brushes as the Speedoclean, on a load-sensing carriage. Motor current tells the controller how hard each brush is working against the body and the carriage answers — so pressure holds across a bonnet, a windscreen and a tailgate instead of being set once and hoped over. It is the step in the range built for 400 to 1,200 washes a month.

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Photographed on commissioned X1.1 installations — a forecourt in Tbilisi, a highway fuel station in Maharashtra and a retail bay in Kerala. Images digitally enhanced for the web.

13

vehicles an hour, up to

1200

washes a month, the duty it is designed around

3.0 m

wash height, in three bolted steps from 2.3 m

8

wash programmes, up to

Overview

A rollover: the car parks, the machine moves

Two vertical brushes and one horizontal hang from a portal that travels the length of the vehicle on rails set into the floor. The driver stops on the marks and stays in the car. One bay does the whole wash — no conveyor, no tunnel, nobody walking round the vehicle with a lance.

The X1.1 is the middle machine of three that share this chassis. Below it the Speedoclean does the same job at a smaller duty; above it the X2 adds a second control loop and the module bays. What the middle step buys you is the load-sensing carriage, three wash heights, six to eight programmes held as data, and payment wiring fitted whether or not you take a card at the bay on day one.

_The picture above is a rendering, so the whole machine could be shown from the front with an empty bay. Everything else on this page is a photograph or a video frame._

  • Two vertical brushes and one horizontal, on a load-sensing carriage
  • 2.3 / 2.6 / 3.0 m wash heights, from a bolted extension kit
  • 12-13 vehicles an hour, designed around 400 to 1,200 washes a month
  • Six to eight wash programmes, built and reordered on the machine's touchscreen
  • High-pressure pre-wash, disc wheel washer and side dryers — standard, not options
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A KKE X1.1 rollover car wash seen straight on from the front with an empty bay: two dark-clad columns with red inner faces, a red cross beam carrying a dot-matrix display lit green with KKE, the horizontal roof brush across the opening and a vertical brush hanging beside each column, on floor rails

Features · one cycle

The programme is built on the touchscreen

The steps, their order and their dose are set on the machine's own touchscreen and held as recipes — six to eight of them — so a site can sell a short wash and a long one off the same hardware without rewiring anything. A programme generally runs prewash, soap, brush, sealer wax, dryer, and these are photographs of it doing that on the three machines filmed for this page.

What the beam display shows while it runs is a separate choice, and it is the site's: an X1.1's display carries whatever the site puts on it — the Tbilisi forecourt runs the step names across it, the Kerala bay scrolls its own name — and what the driver reads off the columns is the positioning arrows.

  1. High-pressure spray crossing the bay of a KKE X1.1 over a dark saloon, the brushes still parked above the roofline PREWASH
    01

    100 bar before anything touches the paint

    High pressure, side and roof, on grit and road film while it is still loose. Skip this step on a genuinely dirty car and the brushes carry the first car's dirt into the second. A step-up to 120 bar is available where the soiling justifies it.

  2. A saloon car covered from roof to sill in white wash foam inside a KKE X1.1 bay in Tbilisi, the brushes parked clear above it SOAP dwell
    02

    Soap over the whole car, and left to work

    Through the foam module, on its own dosing channel. Four channels is what stops the shampoo, the wax and the rinse aid being the same drum diluted three ways — and it is the step customers photograph.

  3. A vertical brush of a KKE X1.1 working down the side of a foam-covered saloon, the foam sheeting off the door and the wheel turning below BRUSH
    03

    Two vertical brushes and one horizontal, closing on the body

    The carriage reads motor current and holds a pressure setpoint against the shape of the car, verified before despatch against a signed pressure-versus-signal table for each brush position. The verticals tilt and lock at 15°, so sloped glass and the back of a hatchback get worked rather than skimmed.

  4. Water arcing over a saloon car from the arch inside a KKE X1.1 at night, the beam above it lit red and the RGB column arrays blazing either side SEALER WAX
    04

    A sealer over the clean paint, on its own channel

    A paid upgrade on the menu that costs seconds rather than minutes, laid over the car from the arch on a dosing channel of its own. The module is an option — take it if you intend to sell a protect step rather than just perform one. Where the mains water is hard, a softener or an RO spot-free rinse upstream is worth more to the finish than anything the machine can do downstream of it.

  5. The blower bar of a KKE X1.1 down across the back of a saloon at the end of its wash, the brushes parked above it and the forecourt beyond DRYER
    05

    The dryers follow the contour the machine read on the way in

    Contour-following roof and side dryers work to the profile captured at the entry, so nozzle-to-panel distance holds across the shape of the body instead of against a nominal one. Side dryers are standard on this model; roof drying on its own leaves the flanks wet, which is the complaint that costs a site its repeat custom.

The foam module and the sealer wax module are priced add-ons, so two of the five steps above arrive only if you order them. The same touchscreen sets the rest of the menu, including the wheel wash, the rinse and any additional chemistry channel. High-pressure pre-wash, the disc wheel washer, side-brush tilt and the side dryers need no ordering — they are on every X1.1. Twelve to thirteen vehicles an hour is what the whole cadence adds up to, drive-in to drive-out.

The top beam of a KKE X1.1 seen from below, the geared motors and the drag chain on the carriage that moves the brushes, with a vertical brush hanging beneath it

The brushes

Contact force is measured, not assumed

A brush machine is only as good as its grip on how hard it is pressing. The Speedoclean below this one sets brush pressure pneumatically and holds it. The X1.1 closes the loop: the carriage reads motor current, works out how hard each brush is loaded against the body, and moves to hold a setpoint as the shape of the car changes under it.

That loop is verified before despatch against a signed pressure-versus-signal calibration table for each brush position — measured against the real thing, not sampled on a flat panel. The brushes themselves are soft ribbon strips and they need water and chemistry running through them to stay that way, which is why the pre-wash step is not optional on a dirty car and why the brush change interval is a number we will give you before you order rather than after.

  • Two vertical brushes and one horizontal, on a load-sensing carriage
  • Brush pressure closed on motor current, held against the contour of the car
  • Signed pressure-versus-signal calibration table per brush position, before despatch
  • Side-brush tilt and lock at 15°, standard
  • Conversion to four vertical brushes plus one horizontal, engineered to order
If nothing may touch the paint

The wheels

A wheel brush, standard, on its own arm

Rims are where a wash gets judged, and they are the part a body brush reaches worst. The X1.1 carries a disc wheel washer as standard: a rotating disc works the wheel face at floor level as the gantry passes, with water firing under the sill beside it.

Two options are worth knowing about before you order. A telescopic washer extends to find a wheel about 250 mm off the line, which is what actually happens on a busy forecourt. And a dedicated rim chemistry channel keeps wheel product out of the body wash — take it if you intend to sell a wheel step rather than just perform one.

  • Disc wheel washer, standard
  • Telescopic wheel washer for a wheel up to 250 mm off centre, optional
  • Rim chemistry on a dedicated dosing channel, optional
  • Brake dust loads a wheel brush — ask us for the change interval before you order
The disc wheel washer of a KKE X1.1 working at floor level against the rear wheel of a foam-covered MPV, its blue geared motor on the slide behind the disc and the column's LED panel alongside
The blower bar of a KKE X1.1 down across the back of a saloon at the end of its wash, the brushes parked above it and the forecourt beyond

Drying

The dryers work to the car in front of them

The photocell contour read at the entry, against the lift encoder, is what the roof and side dryers work to — so nozzle-to-panel distance holds across the shape of the body rather than against a nominal roofline. Side dryers are fitted as standard, in a pair. Roof drying on its own leaves the flanks wet, and a customer who has to wipe their own doors in the car park does not come back.

Memory-contour drying — capturing the profile on the wash pass and replaying it on the dry pass — is an X2 function and is not fitted here. It is not withheld to sell you the machine above: it is built out of this one, and we test before despatch that it is genuinely unavailable in X1.1 firmware.

  • Contour-following roof and side dryers
  • Side dryers fitted as a pair, standard
  • Every blower on its own MPCB - a motor that stalls trips, it does not cook
  • Photocell contour read against a lift encoder at the entry

The tall build

The same bay, with the van in it

The bolted extension kit gives three wash heights — 2.3, 2.6 and 3.0 m. The machine photographed here is built to the top one, in an envelope 4.0 m over the canopy and 3.8 m across, and a further step beyond 3.0 m is available as an option on top of that.

What the height buys is not a taller number. It is the vans, the roof boxes and the high-roof SUVs that a 2.3 m bay turns away all day and never counts, on the same rails and the same programme menu as the cars. Decide it against the tallest vehicle you actually intend to accept, and decide it before the building goes up: the extension bolts on, but the roof over it does not.

  • 2.3 / 2.6 / 3.0 m from the bolted extension kit; a further step beyond is optional
  • The machine photographed here is built to the top step, 3.0 m of wash height
  • 4.0 m overall height and 3.8 m overall width on that build — check the building, not just the bay
  • Same three brushes, same carriage, same programmes as every other X1.1
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A white panel van stopped on the floor rails inside a KKE X1.1 at dusk, its headlights on and the brushes parked clear above its roof
Looking down the bay of a KKE X1.1 installation — the steel floor rails set into the wet apron, the drag chain running in its centre channel, and the gantry standing over the far end with KKE lit across its beam

The platform

What the X1.1 shares with the rest of the range

Designed to EN 17281. Safety hardwired to ISO 13849 Category 3 / PL d, with the PLC outside the safety path. Phase, sequence and under-voltage protection as standard, and every blower on its own motor protection breaker. Galvanised body panels in high-gloss polyurethane, with every galvanised-to-mild-steel joint isolated. Ships semi knocked down and bolts together on site by trained technicians.

How the range is built
A red KKE X1.1 standing over its wash bay at dusk, the three brushes hanging under the canopy and the forecourt lit behind it

Benefits · built for the volume

Four hundred to twelve hundred washes a month

That range is not marketing. It is the band the X1.1 is designed around, and duty cycle is what sets design life on a wash machine — the loop, the carriage and the drives are the parts that decide whether the bay is still working in year seven.

Below about 400 washes a month the Speedoclean does the same job for less money and we will tell you so. Above about 1,200 the honest answer is the X2. Buying below your real volume is the expensive mistake, because it is the one you make twice.

  • 12-13 vehicles an hour
  • 400-1,200 washes a month
  • Vehicles to 3.0 m, in three bolted height steps from 2.3 m
  • Six to eight wash programmes, held as recipes in data
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Unattended readiness

Wired for payment before you have decided who takes it

Every X1.1 leaves the factory with payment-gateway-ready wiring and a payment abstraction layer in the controller. The abstraction layer is the point: the payment provider a site starts with is rarely the one it finishes with, and changing provider should not mean changing machine.

Gateway-ready wiring, standard

Fitted on every machine, whether or not you ever take a card at the bay. Retrofitting it later costs more than carrying it.

Payment abstraction layer, standard

The controller does not care which terminal or gateway you end up with. That is deliberate, and it is what keeps the decision reversible.

Cashless terminal, optional

Takes payment at the bay. The wiring is already there for it, so this is a terminal and a commissioning visit rather than a rebuild.

Cloud dashboard and gateway, optional

Moves the wash counts and the fault log off the machine and onto a screen. Worth it from the second bay onwards.

Faults named on the HMI

Not codes to look up. A full localised string set, with Arabic right-to-left mirroring, and every code exercised and read on the HMI before despatch.

Wash counter and fault log, standard

On the machine itself. You do not need the cloud to know what the bay did yesterday or why it stopped.

A red KKE X1.1 with PREWASH lit in green across the dot-matrix display on its beam, a foam-covered saloon standing between the columns and KKE and X1.1 on the two column heads

What the site sees

The biggest object on your forecourt can carry your name

All three machines on this page are the same model. This one is red, on a forecourt in Tbilisi, running the step names in green across its beam. One is cream, at a highway fuel station in Maharashtra, with lit arrow panels on the column faces and no text display at all. One is graphite, at a retail bay in Kerala, scrolling its own name where this machine says PREWASH. Cladding colour, brush colour, the display and what it says are specified per site.

That matters more on an X1.1 than anywhere else in the range. A site at this volume is usually competing with a hand wash two hundred metres away, and the machine is the only piece of marketing on the forecourt that works at eleven o'clock at night.

  • Custom colour and branding graphics, so the machine carries your name instead of ours
  • Dot-matrix beam display carrying whatever the site puts on it — a name, or the step running
  • LED positioning display on both columns — an option, and fitted on the machines here
  • Splash guards and bay screens, to keep the wash off whatever is parked next to it

Video

X1.1, working

A full cycle on the commissioned machine in Tbilisi — called in, soaped, pre-washed, foamed, brushed, rinsed and out, with a panel van going through the same bay on the way. Thirty-nine seconds, no soundtrack, nothing staged.

Ask us for the unedited footage, or come and watch one run.

Ask us for the unedited footage, or come and watch one run.

Photographs

The machine, in working bays

X1.1s are washing cars on forecourts, fuel stations and retail bays in India and abroad. Three of those sites let us film, which is why the same three machines recur below and why they do not look alike: a forecourt in Tbilisi, a highway fuel station in Maharashtra and a retail bay in Kerala.

Not stand models and not renders — the rails set in the floor, the drag chain in its channel, the disc washer at the wheel, the site's own name on the beam. Every picture below started as a photograph or a video frame of a working machine and has been digitally enhanced for the web. Ask us for the originals, for a reference nearer you, or come and stand in a bay.

Looking down the bay of a KKE X1.1, a saloon stopped on the floor rails between the columns with the LED arrow panel lit and all three brushes parked clear above the roofline
Drive in — stopped on the rails, brushes parked clear
A KKE X1.1 gantry standing at the end of a wash bay with the dot-matrix display lit across the beam
Drive in — the site's own name lit across the beam
A saloon car stopped on the floor rails of a cream KKE X1.1, the triangular LED arrow panels lit on the inner face of both columns
Drive in — the LED positioning arrows, an option
Foam sheeting down the flank of a silver MPV inside a KKE X1.1 bay
Soap — foam down the whole flank, through the optional module
The vertical brush of a KKE X1.1 working down the flank of a white panel van, the van's roofline clear beneath the raised horizontal brush
Brush — down the flank of a van, on the same rails as the cars
The three brushes of a KKE X1.1 inside the portal, the horizontal roof brush hanging level in front of the two verticals
Brush — the roof brush hanging in front of the two verticals
All three brushes of a KKE X1.1 at full flare inside the portal
Brush — all three at full flare
A KKE X1.1 at night with the beam display lit and the RGB column arrays running
Mid-cycle, at eleven at night
The horizontal roof brush of a KKE X1.1 hanging level across the portal on its two carriages
Brush — the roof brush level on its two carriages
Two vertical brushes of a KKE X1.1 silhouetted against the red glow of the beam at night
Brush — the verticals still working after dark
The disc wheel washer working the rear wheel of a foam-covered MPV
Wheel wash — the disc at the rim, standard on this model
A washed MPV pulling out of a KKE X1.1 bay past the gantry, the yellow floor guide lines running out onto the forecourt
Drive out — and the bay resets itself
A clean saloon standing between the columns of a red KKE X1.1 at the end of its wash
End of cycle — the finished car
A clean dark saloon on the rails at the end of its wash
End of cycle — out the other side

Specification

At a glance

Every model in the range runs on a 380-415 V three-phase industrial supply. The incoming supply requirement — connected load, cable size and earthing — is issued with the quotation for the configuration you order, because the options you add change it.

KKE X1.1
Washing2 vertical + 1 horizontal brush
Brush pressureLoad-sensing carriage, closed on motor current
High pressure100 bar pre-wash, side and roof. Step-up to 120 bar optional.
Wash heights2.3 / 2.6 / 3.0 m — bolted extension kit. Further steps optional.
Throughput12-13 vehicles an hour
Duty cycle400-1,200 washes a month
Wash programs6-8 — recipes held as data
Vehicle positioningLED display + photocell contour
Wheel washingDisc washer standard; telescopic optional
DryingContour-following roof and side dryers
Chemical dosing channels4
ReportingWash counts and fault log. Cloud dashboard optional.
PaymentGateway-ready wiring and a payment abstraction layer, standard.
Engineered to orderFour vertical brushes plus one horizontal.
Supply380-415 V, three phase. 50 Hz or 60 Hz.
BodyGalvanised sheet, high-gloss PU paint. Heavy-duty galvanised frame optional.
ShippingKnocked down, bolted assembly on site by trained technicians.

Options

What you can add

Priced add-ons for this model. Already fitted as standard, so there is nothing to add: high-pressure pre-wash side and roof, side-brush tilt and lock, disc wheel washer, side dryers (pair), and the payment abstraction layer with its gateway-ready wiring.

Control, payment and site

LED positioning display

Arrow panels on the column faces that bring the driver in and hold them. Both machines photographed on this page have it, and it is the cheapest fix for a bay that keeps stopping mid-wash.

Chemistry and water

Foam arch module

The visible part of the wash, and the part customers photograph. Also fitted on both machines here.

Wash performance

High-pressure step-up to 120 bar

More pressure on the pre-wash, for heavier soiling than a forecourt normally sees.

Wash performance

Underbody / chassis wash arch

A separate arch at the bay entry. Sells well anywhere salt or site mud is a fact of life.

Wheel and rim

Telescopic wheel washer, off-centre capable

Extends to find a wheel when the car is not parked on the line — which, on a busy forecourt, is most of them.

Wheel and rim

Rim chemistry dosing channel

A dedicated channel so wheel chemistry is not diluted into the body wash. Take it if you intend to sell a wheel step.

Chemistry and water

Additional chemical dosing channel

One more product on the menu, beyond the four. Added per channel.

Chemistry and water

Sealer wax module

A paid upgrade on the menu that costs seconds, not minutes.

Chemistry and water

Water softener

Hard water spots a car whatever the machine did to it. Softening is upstream of the argument.

Chemistry and water

RO spot-free rinse

A final rinse with nothing dissolved in it, so the car can be left to air-dry without marks.

Chemistry and water

Water recycling

Recovers and reuses the bulk of the wash water. See our water recycling systems.

Chemistry and water

Frost protection kit

Standard for Europe and New Zealand, an option everywhere that gets a cold week.

Control, payment and site

Cashless payment terminal

Takes payment at the bay. The gateway-ready wiring is already fitted for it.

Control, payment and site

Cloud dashboard hardware and gateway

Wash counts, faults, brush wear and chemical levels, off the machine and onto a screen.

Structure and finish

Additional wash-height step, per 300 mm

A bolted extension. Decide it before the building goes up, not after.

Structure and finish

Splash guards / bay screens

Keeps the wash inside the bay and off whatever is parked next to it.

Structure and finish

Custom colour and branding graphics

The machine is the biggest object on the forecourt. It can carry your name instead of ours.

Structure and finish

Heavy-duty galvanised frame

A heavier structure under the same machine, for the hardest environments.

Wash performance

Conversion to four vertical brushes plus one horizontal

Engineered to order, where the throughput justifies it.

Service

Commissioning and operator training

Quoted on every order. Your people are trained on your machine, on your site.

Service

Spares kit, twelve months

The wear parts a year of washing consumes, on the shelf instead of on a plane.

The two vertical brushes of a KKE X1.1 closed against the rear of a dark saloon, the KKE mark on one column head and X1.1 on the other

Is it the right one

Where the X1.1 stops

X1.1 is built for 400 to 1,200 washes a month. Above that the honest answer is the X2, and not because of a feature list — because duty cycle is what sets design life.

The features that separate them are deliberately not retrofittable. Memory-contour drying, the second closed loop and the module bays are absent from an X1.1 by design, and we test before despatch that the reserved functions are genuinely unavailable in X1.1 firmware. A machine that could be quietly upgraded into the one above it would be a machine nobody could price honestly.

  • Need more than about 1,200 washes a month — buy the X2
  • Need vehicles above 3.0 m — the X2 is no taller, so that decision is a bigger machine than this range
  • Need a three-tier chemistry menu with polish and protect — X2 module bays
  • Need four vertical brushes — a conversion to 4V + 1H is engineered to order
  • Under about 400 washes a month — the Speedoclean does this job for less
Compare against the X2And against the Speedoclean

Questions

X1.1, in detail

Why do the three machines on this page look different?

Because cladding colour, brush colour and the beam display are specified per site. All three are X1.1s: same three brushes, same load-sensing carriage, same controller. One is red on a forecourt in Tbilisi, running the wash step in green across its beam. One is cream at a highway fuel station in Maharashtra, with lit arrow panels and no text display. One is graphite at a retail bay in Kerala, scrolling its own name where the red machine names the step. Custom colour and branding graphics are a priced option on every machine in the range.

How is this different from the Speedoclean?

Same three brushes, different amount of machine underneath them. Speedoclean sets brush pressure pneumatically and holds it; the X1.1 measures brush load and moves against the car. Speedoclean has one wash height and three programmes; the X1.1 has three heights and six to eight programmes held as data. Speedoclean has none of the payment wiring, and the wheel washer and side dryers are options on it rather than standard. The dividing line is volume: up to about 400 washes a month against 400 to 1,200.

What does "load sensing" actually mean on this machine?

The carriage reads the current each brush motor is drawing, which is a direct measure of how hard that brush is loaded against the body, and moves to hold a pressure setpoint as the shape of the car changes under it. The relationship between pressure and signal is calibrated per brush position and the table is signed before the machine leaves us — so it is a measurement rather than an assumption. What it is not is a second closed loop on torque and pressure feedback, which is an X2 function.

What are the wash height options?

2.3, 2.6 and 3.0 m from a bolted extension kit, and a further step beyond 3.0 m is available as a priced option. The red machine photographed on this page is built to the top step of the kit. Choose against the tallest vehicle you actually intend to accept, and check the building, because the machine is not the only thing that has to clear.

Will it wash a van?

On the tall build, yes — there is a panel van going through one on this page. What decides it is the height you order, not the machine: a 2.3 m bay is a car bay, and the vans, roof boxes and high-roof SUVs it turns away are custom you never see counted. Send us the tallest vehicle you intend to accept and we will confirm the build against it.

How much room does the tall build need?

The 3.0 m machine on this page stands 4.0 m to the top of its canopy and 3.8 m across, against roughly 3.6 m of bay width as a working minimum for a 2.3 m build. Both figures are the machine alone — the plant room, the circulation and the doorway a 3 m vehicle has to come through are separate, and they are usually what actually decides the layout. Send us a site plan.

Will it wash every car?

Nearly all of them. Check your own worst case rather than an average: the width of the widest vehicle you expect and the height of the tallest. Send us both and we will confirm against the configuration rather than guess.

Does it wash the wheels?

Yes, with a disc washer fitted as standard — a rotating disc works the wheel face at floor level as the gantry passes. Where cars are not parked on the line, a telescopic washer that reaches a wheel about 250 mm off centre is an option, and so is a dedicated rim chemistry channel. A wheel brush does pick up brake dust, which is abrasive; ask us for the change interval before you order and budget for it.

How much space does it need?

Allow roughly 3.6 m of bay width as a working minimum for the machine itself, plus the plant room and circulation. Send us a plan of the site and our site design team will check it — the bay is usually not the constraint; getting cars in and out without crossing is.

Can it run on a diesel generator?

Yes. Size the set from the connected load stated in your quotation, because the options you select change it — and add the rest of the site, including lighting, compressor, vacuums and air conditioning, before you settle on a rating.

Does anyone have to mix chemicals by hand?

No. Dosing pumps meter concentrate into the water line across four channels, with dose volume and timing set per recipe. Concentrates are ordered by the barrel and diluted by the machine — which is also why measuring dose volumes at commissioning is worth the hour it takes.

Can an X1.1 be upgraded to an X2 later?

No, and that is deliberate. Memory-contour drying, the second closed loop and the module bays are built out of this machine rather than left unfitted, and we verify before despatch that the reserved functions are unavailable in X1.1 firmware. Buy for the volume you expect to reach.

What documentation ships with it?

Operation, maintenance, fault diagnosis and a preventive maintenance schedule, plus the full named fault-code list that the HMI displays. Every code is exercised and read on the HMI before the machine leaves us.

A washed saloon standing on the floor rails of a red KKE X1.1 under a blue sky, the roof brush parked above it and the forecourt open beyond

Next step

Configure an X1.1 for your site

Tell us the vehicles a day at peak, the tallest vehicle you will accept, what the water is like and the menu you want to sell. We will come back with a configuration, a bay layout and the supply requirement — and if the volume says Speedoclean or X2, we will say so.

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