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- Format
- Rollover — the machine moves over the parked car
- Wash
- Brushes
- Busiest hour
- Under 10 cars an hour
- Site
- One bay, a slab and a drain
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Automatic car wash
Automatic car washing machines in three formats — rollover, conveyor tunnel and drive-through — with brushes, touch-free or both. We build all of them in India.
The price depends on the model, the options and your site: answer four questions below to find yours.
formats — rollover, conveyor and drive-through
rollover models in the range, brush and touch-free
The range
The difference between them is simply what moves: the machine, a belt, or the driver. Everything else — the land, the staffing, the money and the ceiling on cars an hour — follows from that one choice.
The car parks and the gantry travels over it and back. One bay, no conveyor, no pit — 8 to 15 cars an hour, brush or touch-free, and the lowest way into the business.
Fixed equipment and a moving belt, so several cars are being treated at once. Continuous duty, configured stage by stage — the format for volumes one bay cannot clear.
A tunnel's arches without a tunnel's conveyor: a trained driver takes the car through slowly and each arch fires in turn. Built for dealerships and depots.
Find your model
The price depends on the model, the options and your site. Answer the questions to find the suitable model and its pricing.
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Why this one
Your details go to our car wash team, who will come back to you with the price for this model.
No thanks? Your enquiry is with our team, and they will contact you on the number you gave.
Cars an hour is the machine's own cycle rate. What a site does in a day depends on the programme, how fast cars arrive and how the bay is marshalled.
Get a recommendation
Four things settle it, and you already know all four: how many cars arrive in your busiest hour, whether a car can drive straight through or has to reverse out, what you wash, and how dirty it arrives. Send us those and we come back with the format, the wash technology and a price — not a brochure.
Run the numbers
The car wash ROI calculator takes your own bays, cars a day, price per wash and running costs, and returns a seven-year projection: payback, IRR, margin per wash, the volume you break even at, and what happens to all of it if you are 20% wrong about the traffic.
You need to be signed in before you can make a report. The calculator and your saved reports live in the customer portal, so create an account first — name, work email and company, and we email you a password. The button below opens the calculator; if you are not signed in it takes you to the login page and brings you straight back.
Most enquiries open with brush or touchless. It is the second question, not the first — and taking it first is how a site ends up with a machine its plot cannot serve. The sections below take them in the right order: the three formats, then the three washes.
Decision one
Trolley, conveyor or drive-through. Settled by arithmetic you already have — the cars arriving in your busiest hour, the shape of your bay and the land you can give it. Get this wrong and no wash technology rescues it.
Decision two
Touch-free, brush, or both in one cycle. Settled by what you wash and how dirty it arrives. Every format we build is available either way, so this is a free choice rather than a consequence of the first one.
Format one
Also called a trolley or a gantry. The car parks between two columns and the machine travels the length of it and back — one bay, no conveyor, no pit. It is the format most first sites buy, and the one with the widest choice: four models in the range, plus the single-bay ArrowClean below them.
Format two
A tunnel and a conveyor are the same machine — two words for one thing. A belt carries the car through fixed stations, so several cars are being treated at once instead of one at a time. It is the only format that clears volumes a single bay cannot, and the one that asks the most of the plot and the budget.
Format three
Fixed arches over a bay and a trained driver who takes the car through slowly while the machine senses it and fires each arch in turn. Built for a dealership or a depot, where the drivers are your own and there are few enough of them to train properly.
Decision two
This is a fit question, not a quality question. What settles it is the cars you wash and the state they arrive in, and we have no reason to push you either way.
The wash is touch-free: foam, chemistry and water do the cleaning.
Bristles put work into dirt that water pressure alone leaves behind.
High-pressure passes ahead of the brush pass — our most common recommendation.
Side by side
Land and bay figures are civil planning allowances for a car of about 4.4 x 1.8 m. Machine figures come from each range's own page, and the incoming supply requirement is issued with the quotation, because the options you add change it.
| Trolley (rollover) | Conveyor tunnel | Drive-through (fleet) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What moves | The gantry travels over a parked car | A belt carries the car through fixed equipment | A driver takes the car through fixed arches |
| Cars an hour | 8 to 15, by model and programme | Continuous — rated per tunnel on the conveyor range | As fast as you can cycle trained drivers |
| Washes a month it is built for | 300 to 3,000 across the four models | Continuous duty | A fleet's volume, not a retail queue's |
| Bay it needs | In and out the far side, or in and back off | In and out the far side only | In and out the far side only |
| Wash area to plan | 10 m long x 5 m wide, 3.0 m clear height | The tunnel run, plus entry and exit | The arch set, plus entry and exit |
| Land, end to end | About 25 m for one bay, queue and exit included | From about 27 m, rising with the tunnel | As a short tunnel, without the conveyor trench |
| Equipment room | 5 to 10 m² (50 to 100 sq ft) | 15 m² (150 sq ft) minimum, more as the arch count rises | As a conveyor — nothing is carried on the machine |
| Where the chemistry sits | Most concentrate tanks ride on the machine | Every dosing pump and concentrate in the equipment room | In the equipment room |
| Civil work | A slab and a drain. No pit. | A conveyor trench the length of the tunnel | A slab and a drain. No pit. |
| Staffing | One person can operate the machine — the business needs more hands | A loader at the entry, plus the business's own hands | A trained driver for every car. That is the constraint. |
| Wash technology available | Touch-free, brush, or brush with high pressure | Whichever arches you configure: high-pressure pre-wash, foam, friction, wax, spot-free rinse, blowers | Friction and touch-free arches |
| Money in, up front | The lowest of the three | The highest of the three | Between the two, by arch count |
| The risk to plan for | Cars an hour is capped — more demand means a second machine | If the volume does not arrive, the payback stretches out | Wash quality follows the driver's skill |
| Where to look next | Rollover range | Conveyor range | Drive-through systems |
Straight answer
Ask which is better and the honest answer is that it depends on your cars. Ask which is better for your site — tell us the mix, the soil and the busiest hour — and you get a recommendation you can hold us to.
Ours, more often than not, is a brush machine with high-pressure passes running ahead of the brushes. It handles a dusty market without giving up the cars an hour.
Rollover models, brush and touch-free
Formats, from one bay to a conveyor tunnel
Before you commit
You add capacity — you do not upgrade the machine. A rollover's cycle rate is its ceiling, so a second bay with a second machine is the usual answer, and it also gives you a working bay on the day one machine is down.
Plan for it at the layout stage: leave the slab, the drain and the plant-room space for bay two even if you only build bay one. That costs very little now and a great deal later. If you are already confident the volume is coming, price a conveyor alongside and compare the two on paper.
It can settle it outright. A conveyor loads at one end and discharges at the other, so it needs a plot a car can drive through. A rollover works that way too, and that is the better configuration — a queue can form on the entry side while the bay clears, and payment can be taken at the mouth.
But a rollover will also work where the car has to reverse out the way it came in. That costs cycle time because reversing and queueing share one lane, it needs a marshal every open hour, and it rules out payment at the bay mouth. Scale plans of both are on car wash business layouts.
Yes. The calculator and the reports it saves sit inside the customer portal, because a saved projection is your own work and we would rather it was behind your own login than sitting in a browser someone else uses.
Creating an account takes a minute — name, work email and company — and we email you a password. After that the calculator remembers your scenarios, you can reopen and edit them, and each one downloads as a PDF you can send to a bank or a partner. The same portal holds your machine records, manuals and brochures.
For a rollover, 5 to 10 square metres (50 to 100 square feet) is enough. For a conveyor, allow 15 square metres (150 square feet) as a minimum, and more as the tunnel lengthens and the arch count rises.
The difference is where the chemistry lives. A rollover carries most of its concentrate tanks on the machine itself; a conveyor puts every dosing pump and concentrate in the room. Either way the room also holds the air compressor, the water pumps, centralised vacuum, chemicals, spares and tools, and on a full-service site a washer and dryer for the microfibre — and every item needs to stay reachable for maintenance and replacement. Where the temperature drops below freezing, the chemical drums come inside too.
No. The machine tracks each vehicle's position while it is inside the wash bay and switches the conveyor motor off once the car has left the bay area, so a quiet hour does not cost you electricity.
KKE conveyors also run rollers on demand: a roller rises above the belt surface only when there is a car to push, and otherwise travels below it. That is what stops a roller coming up under a rear wheel and jamming.
There is no conveyor. A drive-through uses many of the same arches, but a person drives the car slowly through the bay while the machine senses it and starts each arch in turn. That makes the driver part of the equipment: they have to understand both the machine and the particular car.
It suits a dealership, where the drivers are your own, trained on that marque, and few enough to train properly. Many sites hand-prewash the car before it enters, to take the stubborn dirt and bugs off in one go. The system is the Z10 fleet car wash, and it can be tied to RFID so fleet cleaning is monitored from anywhere.
On a rollover, roughly four to seven minutes — which is what 8 to 15 cars an hour works out to. Where in that band you land is decided by the programme the customer picks.
A basic programme is about pre-wash, soap, a brush pass and drying. The extras bundled into the higher-priced programmes each add time: under-chassis wash, lava foam, triple foam wax, sealer wax and tyre shine. On a conveyor the question changes shape, because the car never stops — the wash lasts as long as the tunnel takes to travel.
Our usual recommendation is brush equipment with high-pressure add-ons, running the high-pressure passes before the brush pass so the loose mud is off the car first. That gives you friction's cleaning power on baked-on soil without the bristles working through a layer of dust.
Where nothing may touch the paint — a dealership handover, a coated or wrapped car — touch-free is the right answer, and we build that too. It is a fit question, not a quality one.
One person can operate the machine. But the business needs more hands: someone has to bring the cars in and park them, treat the dirty spots by hand, finish the car, and look after the customer and the cash.
It still runs on a fraction of the manpower a hand wash needs. Staff for the business, not just the machine — and staff for your busiest hour, not your average day. As cars an hour go up, put another hand on the bay.
That depends on what leaves the site. A car wash discharges soapy water carrying a light film of oil or grease, off wheel bearings and the occasional leaking engine.
Put in a water recycling system and it separates the oil and takes the sludge out before anything is discharged — and because the same water goes round again, the total your site draws falls. KKE biodegradable chemicals are the other half of it.
For sale. We do not currently offer automatic car wash equipment on rental in India.
Send us the busiest hour, the shape of the bay and the cars you take. We will name the format and the wash technology, say what we would not sell you, and price it.