One of the most important decisions you'll make when starting off in the car wash industry is choosing the right company to help you build your business.
A story of two brothers’ success - Jun and Sonny Essenburg opened their first car wash in 1969.
648 South Point Ridge
Holland, MI 49423
Main Line: (616) 494-0771
Our unique building design makes it easy and fun for your customers to get a great car wash.
Our equipment lineup sets you up for success inside and outside the wash tunnel.
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As our team travels throughout the United States building car wash facilities we constantly pass by small, dingy, and often idle automatic in-bay car washes, and we’ve come to believe that these washes are quickly on the way out, but that there ABSOLUTELY is a need for small, flexible automatic car wash systems near gas stations […]
5 Tips For Bringing Young Adults Into Your Car Wash It’s no secret that the newest American generation, the enigmatic, connected, tech-savvy group known as Millennials, make for a very difficult and interesting marketplace. Car washes are one great example, and so far the industry has had mixed results marketing and holding on to this group. […]
Customers continue to ask, call, and order new Tommy Car Wash Inbay Conversions, and with the trend showing no sign of stopping we thought it would be good to write out a few of the advantages that the Tommy Car Wash and AVW’s Transporter Conveyor holds over old-style chain and over-under conveyors. 1. Simpler Construction, Less Maintenance […]
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are the perfect solution for modern car wash lighting and with the Tommy Car Wash Retrofit package you can keep your current transformer but upgrade to use this improved technology with our enhanced sign panels.
It’s that time of year again! Spring is finally here and with it the annual Holland Michigan Tulip Time Festival! Our friends at Quality Car Wash have been hard at work decorating their float (featuring our own Tommy arch design and rear huggers!) for the Wednesday parade. You can see it again on Saturday, so come […]
Groupon and Daily Deals When Groupon hit the scene back in 2008-2010 it was groundbreaking, the first of its kind and one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in history. But success attracts imitation and Groupon soon found itself swamped in competition from other brands copying its model and cutting into its customer base. Today […]
With the new Tommy In-Bay Conveyor system refit taking off in car washes around the country, we thought it would be a good idea to take a step back and look at a few of the advantages and disadvantages of small in-bay automatic car washes, and how our conversion system can completely transform an old […]
A Remarkable Conveyorized In-Bay System Back in 2010 we launched our unique answer to the overwhelming need today for a small conveyorized automatic car wash, the Totally Tommy Mini Car Wash. Since then the design has had incredible success serving as an added service attached to gas stations or in communities to small for express […]
With the International Car Wash Association show in Las Vegas right around the corner (April 23-25, 2015), Tommy Car Wash Systems is pulling out all the stops to showcase our exterior building designs, supply services, and interior technology. And what better way to truly highlight our wash than with the greatest of all building materials—the […]
New Tommy Gas/C-Store Car Wash In Holland Michigan Has Record-Breaking Success! Anyone who’s visited the Totally Tommy Gas/C-Store Tunnel at the Quality Car Wash & Tim Horton’s at Chicago Drive and N. Waverly Rd. in Holland, Michigan knows that that car wash is BUSY! In fact, the facility has served over 119,000 cars in just three months […]
