Car Wash
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Enhance your car wash business with a complete line of professional car wash chemicals and equipment from EMS Detergent Services. We offer everything from powerful pre-soaks, tire and wheel cleaners, and foam brushes to triple foams, protectants, and spot-free rinses. With over 65 years of experience, our family-owned business is dedicated to providing quality products and reliable service. Let our local service representatives assist you in achieving superior results for your customers.
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Our Quality Car Wash Equipment
Keep your vehicles shining and your systems running strong with EMS Detergent Services’ complete line of professional car wash chemicals, soaps, waxes, and equipment solutions.
Our car wash product lineup includes pre-soaks, tire and wheel cleaners, foam brushes, triple foams, drying agents, protectants, and spot-free rinses—all engineered for performance and efficiency. Whether you operate a self-serve bay, automatic tunnel, or fleet wash system, EMS has the products and technical support to meet your exact needs.
We also want you to know you’re never on your own—when you work with us, you'll have an assigned local service representative to help manage your orders and provide in-field assistance if required.
Call to place an order at our North Liberty number, (319) 665-2216 or our Des Moines number, (515) 244-1788
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions for us? We'll give you simple, straightforward answers. If you have more questions, call us at (319) 665-2216 to talk with one of our representatives.
Why EMS Detergent?
Our first response would be: why not?
Our second response would be: we've got more experience than most, we're hyper-local and dedicated to you, not just our bottom line, and our products, services, and results speak for themselves.
And also, why not?
Why is water spraying out of the top of the doors or out of the sides onto the tables?
A missing or bent spray arm end cap can cause water to rush out of the spray arm and through the openings on the machine.
Why did the machine not turn on?
This is a common issue that can be be troubleshot with a few steps:
1. Check the circuit breaker.
2. Push the roller on the door switch plunger on the front door of the machine.
3. Look to see if a rack is sitting against the table limit switch on the clean table.
4.Check the master switch to see if it will operate.
If none of those work, a service call may be required.