Car wash machine installation across the US
Europe Makine ships its machines door to door and installs them with its own technicians from Greenacres, Florida. This is what a site needs before installation starts.
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- europemakine.com
Five steps to a running tunnel
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Send your site
Your site's measurements and queue length, its water supply, drainage and electrical capacity, your opening hours, and how many vehicles you expect on a peak day.
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Receive the proforma
The proforma sets the tunnel length, the arch sequence and the optional equipment for your site. It is issued at no charge.
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Shipping
The tunnel ships door to door from Europe Makine's facility to your site.
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Free installation
Europe Makine's technicians install the tunnel on site at no charge.
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Service
A 12-month warranty starts, with technicians and spare parts based in Greenacres, Florida.
What the site owner prepares
A conveyor tunnel needs a pit and an equipment room. The general arrangement for a full length tunnel sets the pit depth, the equipment room size and the reclaim tank positions; shorter lines scale down.
The full length tunnel runs on 480 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz. The customer supplies the 480 V transformer. Controls take a separate 110 V, 1 phase, 16 A supply, and lighting and ancillary distribution needs 110 / 208 V at 100 A minimum.
Full length tunnel: installation and utilities
| Machine installation area | 124'-0" × 18'-04" |
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| Equipment room | 38'-06" × 11'-5" |
| Conveyor length | 112' |
| Pit depth | 8'-2" |
| Wash stations | 24 |
| Supply voltage | 480 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz (480 V transformer supplied by the customer) |
| Control supply | 110 V, 1 phase, 16 A |
| Protective earth resistance | 0-2 ohm |
| Reclaim tanks | 3 × 2,000 US gal, in series |
| Oil and water separator | 750 US gal |
| Treated water storage | 2,650 US gal |
| Softened water tank | 1,325 US gal |
| Pit drain | 8" PVC |
| Reclaim suction lines | 2 × 3" SCH-80 PVC |
Installing a SUNRISE gantry at a depot
A SUNRISE truck and bus gantry needs a concrete lane, an electrical supply, water and compressed air. The chassis wash at the line entrance sits over a reinforced concrete substructure, so that part of the lane is built for it.
Drivers are guided in by 3 inch steel router guide pipes fixed to the concrete floor. A 24 VDC LED traffic light stands at the rail start and another sits on the machine body. A red light means the gantry is running or off; green means it is ready.
Power and water figures rise with optional equipment, water recovery and cold-weather packages. Those are quoted per site.
SUNRISE W4000 and W4700 site services
| Rail gauge | 400 cm |
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| Machine width, excluding water shields | 465 cm |
| Water shields | 14 cm each side |
| Voltage / frequency | 380 V / 50 Hz |
| Water pressure | 3.5-4 bar |
| Water requirement | 70-80 lt/min |
| Optional equipment water requirement | 250 lt/min |
| Air pressure | 6 bar |
| Air requirement | 15 lt/min |
Questions and answers
- Who supplies the transformer for a full length tunnel?
- The customer supplies the 480 V transformer. Europe Makine's general arrangement sets the supply at 480 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz.
- Can the tunnel be shorter than 121 ft?
- Yes. Standard modules run from 9 to 30 m, and the utilities for a shorter line scale down from the full length figures.
- When are drain requirements set for an ACROBAT 2X bay?
- At the proforma stage. Plant length, between 6.5 and 15 m, is also set per site.
- What does Europe Makine need to quote a SUNRISE gantry?
- The depot layout, the number of vehicles washed per day, the tallest vehicle and the widest vehicle.
Send your site details
Dimensions, water, drainage, power and peak vehicles per day are enough to start a proforma.
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