D&S Quicksilver - anyone have one yet?

[borumrm]

Has anyone installed the D&S quicksilver? How does it compare to the 5000? Do you have the dryers as well? What is the approximate cost installed?

[sudsysllc]

Newly installed. have about 1300 washes on it. i don't have any experience with the 5000, so can't make a comparison.

i drove through tons of washes before choosing the D&S Q. PDQ is big in my area and i wasn't overly impressed with the M5 or G5. Most people i talked to like the laser 4000 better. power rains, vectors, mark1Vs and oasis were all tested on my vehicles. the new Q impressed me with its appearance and wheel blasters. my customers are equally impressed with it and they were mainly PDQ users.

im still in the learning phases, so cant tell much more except to say its an awesome machine

[mmc]

Ive been drooling over the quicksilver to but Im also torn with the PDQ g5 and oasis typhoon. I guess the only way to decide is to hear from people that have these.

[Joe Gillis]

A guy in the next town over has a Quick Silver and it gives a nice wash, The wheel blaster is one of the best I've seen. No 5000's around here to compare.

[sudsysllc]

Joe, are you talking about the Quicksilver in Austintown? I've been wanting to go see the owner and compare notes. Do you know his name?

[ajbjoust]

Well MMC I can tell you dont touch the G5. I took out a G5 and installed a D&S Q in Jan 08. I look at the G5 as PDQ's never finished project. I did have one of the first 30 off the line and it was a pain even with all the upgrades to make it a G5-S. The quicksilver produces a good carwash and is reliabe. The only problem with it is if you have gusty winds blowing into your tunnel it usses the Gantry as a sail and moves the machine and shuts it down. That is really the only problem I have ad with it so far and Im told D&S is working on a solution for it.