Industry estimates suggest that India will have the highest number of cars by 2050, its consumer market is expected to be the fifth largest in the world by 2025, and immense growth is also projected in the transportation sector. The car care and car wash industry will grow and offer numerous opportunities to prospective investors and franchisees. In 2025 every third car manufactured will be sold in India. Since the number of cars will increase, there will be a high demand for car washing business and detailing services too.
Business Potential
Hiring the services of cleaner boys for cleaning one vehicle in the morning is now giving way to more professional cleaning methods brought in by specialised car care service providers. The global market for car washing services is expected to reach to a figure of over $27.4 billion by the year 2017, driven by rising disposable incomes and jump in new car sales.
A car wash can be a good business for an entrepreneur with little previous business experience. According to the International Car Wash Association, 37% of car wash owners have owned their business for less than five years. There has been a drastic change in the automobile sector in the past few years, especially in the car washing segment. The figure of increasing number of professional car washing units speaks for itself.
Challenges
Currently, car service centres are facing many challenges in delivering the desired level of washing quality along with improving the productivity of the process and time consumption. The current manual car washing process is too much time consuming. There is always risk to vehicle during under chassis cleaning which involves lifting of car by a post lift.
Emerging Trends
One of the main challenges for today’s car wash owner isn’t just providing customers with clean cars; it’s providing customers with clean cars in the shortest time possible. In order to achieve the aspects of both productivity and quality automatic car wash system can be a saviour for the service centres.
Mechanized car cleaning system is already a $5.97 billion business in the US with more than 14,414 successful outlets, and in India it is just picking up.
Indian car owners today do not have many options for car cleaning and detailing, so they are bound to take their car to the road side garages for cleaning services. The car washing business has a handful of competitive advantages.
There is a need for professional car cleaning outlets which can provide an ultimate car cleaning experience. So demand for a professional and reliable cleaning brand is higher than ever and is going to increase further.
Concept
Automated car washing offers the speed and convenience increasingly demanded by Indian consumers who considers products and services that save time as important.
- The proportion of consumers washing their car at home is in decline.
- Trend continues to move from “do-it-yourself” to “do-it-for-me”
- The Industry is growing since more Indian consumers are washing their cars at a professional wash than ever before.
- Automatic car wash system provides quick and easy car cleaning solution without all the hassles of tedious and time
consuming manual process.
Advantages
- Lesser manpower required.
- Eliminates the hassles of hiring a labor, hence reduces dependency.
- Manpower turnover ratio & absenteeism will be reduced down.
- Considerably quick time.
- Work efficiency will be increased.
- Human errors will be minimized.
- Environment Conservation by reduction in usage of water by provision of water recycling plantin wash bay.
- Zero risk by elimination of lifting car for washing under body area.
- Much Effective cleaning results.
- Reduction in security concerns about theft from car and manhandling as a result of reduction in manpower.