[rockfan4]

They've seemed to fallen out of favor around here. People don't want to get out of their cars anymore, so there's a lot more using the automated ones. Doesn't help that the local convenience store has added automated ones to a lot of their gas stations, pay for the wash when you buy your gas, save a dollar, it's only about a dollar more than 15 minutes in the self serve one.

Add to that crack heads busting open the change machines, and morons leaving the doors open in the winter and the bays freezing up, and I'm not sure what sort of profit you'll make.

Last winter one of the local washes caught someone on video (a competitor?) pouring water or something nastier into the change machines.