Tandem Surfline

Overview

PDQ has taken our Tandem product to a new level, changing the friction in-bay automatic wash industry with a soft-touch machine like no other. The Tandem Surfline provides your customers with an exceptional wash experience incorporating an overhead design that creates a wide-open, easy-to-use wash bay. This innovative design is safe and inviting for your customers while offering all the revenue-generating features that will keep them coming back again and again. No other friction machine navigates around the vehicle as precisely as the Tandem Surfline, which ensures complete and optimal cleaning coverage for a wide variety of vehicle types, including duallys.

With the widest top brush coverage in the industry, the foam brushes are torque sensitive to monitor the contour of the vehicle and provide low-force cleaning power. The side-profiling, high-pressure wash arms effectively remove stubborn soil from the vehicle’s surface. Plus, the three-stage wheel cleaning system includes chemical application, rotating soft rim scrubbers and high-pressure wheel blasters.

Information contained herein subject to change without notice.

The Tandem Surfline
An innovative design that takes friction cleaning to a new level.

Key Features

• Increased throughput with a fast, efficient cleaning process
• Two Bridge, Two Brush Design
• PDQ’s staple Open Wash Bay – overhead design with no floor steel
• Integrated FlashDry^®
• Virtual Treadle^® bay loading
• Slip-Free Belt Drive
• More Services – Chemical Wheel/Tire Applicators, Front Bug Prep, 3X Foam, Super Sealant, Rain Rinse Arch, OverGlow Hi-Gloss Application System
• Tankless Operation
• Internal Bridge Rollers
• Aircraft-Grade Anodized Aluminum Bridge and Main Rails
• Non-corrosive materials used – stainless and aluminum
• New low-/high-pressure pump design improves functionality and lowers maintenance costs
• Ultimate Cover Package
• Second side brush for improved cleaning efficiency
• Exceptional Distributor Support
• 24/7 PDQ Technical Service Support
• Built-in Web Interface for Updating, Reporting & Monitoring

Key Components

Two Bridges/Two Side Brushes/Two Cleaning Technologies

The Tandem Surfline’s two-bridge design allows multiple cleaning processes to take place at one time, speeding up the wash cycle, and allowing fast and efficient vehicle cleaning while optimizing the amount of water and chemicals used during the wash process. Two overhead bridges work in unison to easily navigate around and over the vehicle, seamlessly adjusting speed and positions to ensure complete and superior cleaning.

The two profiling side brushes remove stubborn dirt from the vehicle’s surface, while the widest top brush in the industry ensures full cleaning on top surface areas. This unique wash experience creates one of the quietest washes with very gentle vehicle contact, providing a worry-free and enjoyable wash every time.

The Tandem Surfline offers a combination of both friction and high-pressure touch-free washing. Full body detergent coverage plus high-pressure services, from both the side and the top, ensures a consistent, high-quality wash for every vehicle.

Structural Integrity

The Tandem Surfline mounting system provides the flexibility to fit into a wide variety of wash-bay configurations. The Surfline can be installed as a Free-Standing Frame or a Wall-Mounted machine. The New Wall-Mount System offers an open-bay feeling unlike any other light-touch machine in the industry, while the Free-Standing Frame can be used where the walls may not be structurally sufficient.

The main support rails can be adjusted during installation to accommodate wash bays of various lengths. In addition, the Precision-Loading System allows longer vehicles to fit comfortably into shorter wash bays, essentially making your wash bay one foot longer.

Non-Corrosive Materials Used

The Tandem Surfline is built using all stainless steel and aluminum for excellent resistance to water and chemical corrosion. Aluminum is strategically used for its durability and lightweight properties. The shape of the anodized extruded aluminum rails in the bridges and trolley allows for an enclosed roller design, which results in extremely low roller resistance. This reduces the power needed to move the machine and eliminates the need for rail heating in cold weather by preventing water from accumulating and freezing on the roller path…LESS power consumed = MORE $$$ saved!!!

E-Chain

Driver or passenger side-mounted factory preloaded energy chain for easy and low-cost installation.

Roller Inside

Bridge and trolley movements are smooth and effortless using internally mounted dual-axis rollers. The hanging design allows self-centering and improves roller life by protecting the rollers from the harsh wash environment.

Speed = Increased Revenue

Simplified engineering and high-quality materials provide the optimal balance between initial investment and long-term profitability. Substantially faster wash speeds increase vehicle throughput, resulting in shorter wash lines that will please your customers and keep them coming back.

Lower Maintenance and Repair Costs + Lower Operating Costs = Higher Profits

Revenue Generation

Advanced Solution Application

PDQ is recognized as the industry’s leader when applying fluids, solutions and sealants to vehicles due to the availability of efficient and consistent wash systems that cover the wide variety of vehicles that drivers bring to wash sites. The Tandem Surfline can also sense open-bed pickup trucks, eliminating the application of various solutions in areas where it is not required, reducing the cost per wash. All fluid, solutions and sealants are now provided from off-board pump panels and pump stations, which increases serviceability and adds durability to the Tandem Surfline.

As with all PDQ Wash Systems, you can also increase your revenue per vehicle with upselling features that will allow your customers to customize their wash experience.

Front Bug Prep

PDQ’s exclusive Front Bug Prep can increase revenue without adding time to the wash process. Customers love this feature, which focuses on hard-to-clean areas like the windshield, back sides of mirrors and the front of vehicles.

3X Color Foam System

Upsell with this colorful feature! The 3X Color Foam Applicator can apply three-color foam solutions to the vehicle. Your customers, and your customer’s children, will watch this product with awe as it covers their vehicle in a rainbow of colors.

OverGlow Hi-Gloss Application System

Turn your wash into a Glowing Success! The OverGlow Hi-Gloss Application System drapes the vehicle in a thick sheet of cleaning solution, with strategically placed bright LED lights further enhancing the customer experience while ensuring performance. While your customers will love their shiny vehicles, you will love the extra revenue this product is capable of generating.

Super Sealant System

Protect the surface of the vehicle with our Super Sealant System. This option protects the clear coat and helps maintain the shine of your customers’ vehicles, as well as being an excellent revenue generator.

High-Pressure Services

The Tandem Surfline can be equipped with high-pressure side blasters and an overhead high-pressure manifold. This hybrid friction and touch-free wash technology allows you to differentiate your wash site from your competition. Each side arm will accurately profile the vehicle and offers powerful rotating nozzles that focus on the vehicle’s lower body sides. In addition to these side blasters, there is an optional high-pressure top manifold that can assist with snow and ice removal, provide faster rinsing and, of course, superior cleaning performance.

Advanced Tire and Wheel Cleaners

One of the most difficult areas of vehicles to clean are the wheels. Drivers are willing to pay more to have dirty wheels cleaned; with the Tandem Surfline there are multiple cleaning technologies in play to meet even the most demanding consumer needs.

PDQ’s TriPlex Wheel Cleaning System takes tire scrubbing to a new level. During the process, each tire receives a chemical application allowing for dwell time and the wheel receives an intense bi-directional rotational scrubbing, which is followed by a full-wheel high-pressure blast.

If tire scrubbers are not your style, that’s OK. The Tandem Surfline can be equipped with touch-free high-pressure wheel and tire cleaners. With up to 1,000 psi of washing pressure, these strategically positioned zero-degree rotating nozzles will blast off the dirt and grime from those difficult-to-clean wheel/rim areas. Advanced software built into the Tandem Surfline allows you to do double wheel passes and/or clean the entire rocker panel between the wheels. The ultimate in wheel-cleaning flexibility!

SwingAir

The Tandem Surfline can be equipped with a variety of drying options. There is a completely integrated drying system for smaller bays, as well as a stand-alone dryer in either a four- or six-producer configuration. The Tandem Surfline is also available with the SwingAir Synchronized Motion Drying System. This feature uses motion in the center two producers to push water off the vehicle’s top surface, which allows the two outside producers to focus on drying the sides of the vehicle. The SwingAir option is available on both integrated and stand-alone drying systems.

The Tandem Surfline also offers PDQ’s advanced FlashDry System, which reduces the time required to complete the drying cycle. The concept is simple: it’s easier to keep water in motion than it is to start motion. The high-velocity air keeps the rinse water rapidly moving across the vehicle, not allowing water to settle on the surface for a quality dry in an efficient manner.

High-Pressure Side Cleaners/Gatling Guns

Differentiate yourself from your competitors with either High-Pressure Tower Side Blasters or Gatling Guns. Both offer enhanced cleaning capabilities for the wheel, tire and rocker-panel areas. Designed to work in conjunction with underbody service lines, these high-pressure components are powerful cleaning tools.

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