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| Post# 136890 5/18/2011 at 08:34 (4,724 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I have always found it frustrating to use the coin-operated vacuums provided at car washes and gas stations. The hoses are always too bulky and sometimes broken. The nozzles are useless and sometimes you don't even get a nozzle - just a "julienne" sliced end of the plastic hose. And then there is the problem of weak suction due to a bin or filters not being cleaned properly.
It's fine if you live in a private home where you can plug in your favourite canister vac and clean the car in your garage or driveway. But what about all us apartment renters and those living in high-rise condos? Here's a challenge for Bissell or Miele or Dyson (Jack...are you reading this?): Create a really innovative coin-operated car vacuum system that can properly clean all surfaces in a car: a nice deep scratch-proof dusting brush for the dashboard and airvents, a nice flexible crevice tool for those hard-to-get-at nooks and crannies, and a mini power nozzle to brush up the carpets and clean the upholstery. The tools should be easily washed or maintained or frequently replaced by the vac company offering the service, and they should be secured so that they are not stolen (maybe they must be returned to an automated cleansing bin before your credit card can be removed). The hose should be easy to manoeuver and use, and should retract so that it does not get damaged by being run over. Maybe you get a subscription to the service and as part of the subscription, the subscriber actually owns the attachments including the mini turbo nozzle. Your subscription includes a replacement plan so that any really dirty or broken tools are replaced. You keep the tools in your car trunk in a special bag!! And how about this for a challenge: add another unit that will allow you to steam clean and wash your carpets and mats! Kind of like a very long-hosed version of the Bissell Green Machine! If Dyson does this, they can use their "Air Blade" technology at the end of the hosting car wash to dry off the cars! What do you think guys? We put a man on the moon, so can't we offer a good self-serve automated vacuum for car washes and gas stations? I'd pay $5 for 10 minutes of the use of such a machine..... | ||
Post# 136902 , Reply# 1 5/18/2011 at 12:57 (4,723 days old) by vinvac  (Dubuque IA) |
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| Post# 136937 , Reply# 2 5/18/2011 at 17:43 (4,723 days old) by Brandon_W_T () | ||
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You would think that the attachments would get stolen really easily. Around here its a big problem that people steel the air hoses and vacuum hoses at gas stations. Some stations have the vacuum hoses locked in a box. | ||
| Post# 136970 , Reply# 3 5/18/2011 at 21:31 (4,723 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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You know Brandon, that is exactly what I was thinking - but what if the Bissel Car vac or Dyson Car Vac had a hose handle that did not have a tool always connected to it, and you could attach your very own purchased turbo nozzle or dusting brush or crevice tool? Your local gas station could sell the compatible tools in the store and you would always have them on hand in your trunk whenever you needed to clean the car interior.
Ideally the hose handle profile would be a "universal" size so that you could even use a Kenmore dusting brush or a Eureka turbo nozzle connected to it. | ||
| Post# 136971 , Reply# 4 5/18/2011 at 21:33 (4,723 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Post# 137000 , Reply# 8 5/19/2011 at 03:02 (4,723 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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The inverter system can quickly drain your battery-you would have to be careful there.the 12V vacuums are somewhat less powerful-but won't drain the battery as easily as an inverter. | ||
| Post# 137003 , Reply# 9 5/19/2011 at 07:13 (4,723 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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I have yet to see a portable car vac that plugs into the lighter that can do the job properly, and that won't spew dirty exhaust air back into the car.
Perhaps some of you guys could show me some links to "lighter-powered" car vacs that are top performers, that would be great. At minimum, they would need to be powerful enough to power a mini turbo nozzle, and the hose would have to be at least 5 feet long. :-) I still think that the self-serve vacs at car washes need to have a serious redesign......and the company that designs this new innovative system would have great advertising exposure. | ||
| Post# 137096 , Reply# 14 5/20/2011 at 06:21 (4,722 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Okay then....can anyone post a link to a description of a powerful car vac that plugs into the car lighter and that at minimum has a hose which can take my Kenmore dusting brush? Or could take an air-driven turbo nozzle?
I am not allowed to plug in any vacuum in the electrical outlets of the public areas of my apartment building (garage or parking lot). | ||
| Post# 137269 , Reply# 16 5/22/2011 at 08:13 (4,720 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Hi Gary!
Well, in my rental building, each tenant pays extra for their electricity in their apartments. Because Toronto Hydro is such a corrupt organization, electricity prices here are very high. So our building owner restricts the use of those electrical outlets in public spaces to the maintenance people and cleaning staff and any contractors who need it for their power tools and such. I guess I have two options (since Dyson has not come to my rescue with a newfangled self serve car wash vac!): I think I am going to buy one of those cordless hand vacs that has a revolving brush attachment, just so I can brush and clean the upholstered seats in the car. I can always bring up the carpeted floor mats to my apartment and run my Hoover Tempo over them. I will have to ask a friend who has a home in the suburbs if they don't mind me coming over one sunny Sunday afternoon to clean the interior properly with my Electrolux! (By the way, can anyone recommend the best turbo nozzle that would fit on a universal canister vac's hose handle?) | ||
| Post# 137420 , Reply# 18 5/23/2011 at 15:59 (4,718 days old) by Floor-A-Matic (somewhere) | ||
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Adapter for tools Great if U want to use a car wash vac & your own tools CLICK HERE TO GO TO Floor-A-Matic's LINK 
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| Post# 137421 , Reply# 19 5/23/2011 at 16:02 (4,718 days old) by Floor-A-Matic (somewhere) | ||
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Best turbo nozzle This one here--has Windtunnel technology & beats other turbo brushes! Too bad Hoover doesn't offer this style anymore with their vacs; instead they give the new style (terrible & cheap looking) brush instead of the better one (shown here) 
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| Post# 137422 , Reply# 20 5/23/2011 at 16:03 (4,718 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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