Southwestern Mobile Auto Detailing and Car Washing - Case Study

Weather is such a big issue and mobile detailing and mobile car washing, that it almost pays to start the business in an area that has decent weather most all year-round. Now then, let's say you wanted to choose a city to do this type of business, which city would you choose? Well, I would suggest that you choose a city in the Southwest. Perhaps, a city in New Mexico or Arizona for instance - okay so, let's talk about running a mobile car wash business in Tucson Arizona, as a case study.

Now then, before you set up your mobile car wash business you have to take a look at the area and do a little bit of marketing, a little bit of scouting around to see what kind of competition you have, what kind of prices you can charge, and if there is the proper clientele to maintain a solid cash flow, and a busy route for your schedule.

In Tucson Arizona the market is quite abundant. However, many of the areas are economically depressed. Therefore, one would wish to stay in the business districts, and a higher in areas in and around the city, including the suburbs such as Oro Valley, and Marana - and I'd like to talk about those in a moment, but first let's look at the overall City of Tucson Arizona. In the city of Tucson itself there are several great opportunities for mobile car wash companies such as;

Auto Auction South West of Town
Industrial Areas Near the Airport
Parking Structures Down Town
Area Around the University
Hospital area

Okay, first you're going to need labor, and along E. Speedway Blvd. is the University, with many college kids who are looking for part-time work. They are smart, well trained, with good driving records, for the most part. They may not be able to work a full 40 hour workweek, but they can put in hours between their class schedule. Having clean cut labor also helps if you're going to clean-up detailing cars in a downtown parking structure or in the many industrial areas surrounding the city including those by the airport.

There are plenty of fleets of vehicles to clean in Tucson, as well as the auto auction which is southwest of town. Our franchisee made a lot of money there, cleaning vehicles for the Wednesday auctions. The hospital area is very good too, and there are many medical buildings, office parks, and medical centers in the area. Tucson also has a giant regional mall, and several other malls which are quite busy as well. It might be wise to set something would be property managers to clean in the parking lot more shoppers are busy spending money.

In Oro Valley, on Ina Road there is one of the most coolest looking carwashes in the country, it's very state-of-the-art, and many of the wealthier folks take their cars there, and they're always lined up on the weekends. That gives you just a little bit of an idea how well the car wash business can do in that town, and how much business is available for perhaps a mobile car wash company, or a business doing high-end detailing. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.