Soak City Car Wash Fawkner

Recently Renovated. New Equipment. Zero Deferred Capital Expenditure.

A tired self-serve site, rebuilt into a full-service wash. All new equipment. Nothing left to spend.

This site was purchased as a self-serve-only car wash and comprehensively transformed. The entire site was refurbished, two of the existing self-serve bays were converted into automatic wash bays, and all new equipment was installed throughout — a $1,030,000 investment into plant and site improvements.

The result is a modern, fully-equipped car wash trading 24/7 on a brand-new 10-year lease.

What's on site

• 2 × PDQ LaserWash 360 Plus touchless automatic bays — dryers, side blasters, underbody flush
• 3 x Self-serve bays with premium soaps, waxes and high-pressure hoses
• 4 × iVac Turbo vacuum stations
• 1 × K9000 dog wash — fully fenced, warm water
• 2 x Vending and change machines
• 12 × Nayax cashless terminals — full site telemetry
• Trading 24 hours, 7 days, attended 9am–5pm by a single staff member

Two automatic bays is the number that matters. Almost every competitor in this catchment runs one. Two removes the queue at peak, doubles the throughput ceiling, and keeps the site trading when a bay comes down for service. On an in-bay automatic, throughput is the business.

The operating model is lean — one person, nine to five, fully cashless, no coin handling, no banking run, live reporting from anywhere. An established third-party licence agreement also runs on the site independently of the wash.

Everything is new. The equipment was installed in 2025, is under warranty, and carries no replacement expenditure on the horizon. To replicate this you would need an arterial corner with 70 metres of frontage on 44,000 vehicles a day, a planning permit, water, drainage and trade waste, and a million dollars of plant — before your first customer. Here it is done, commissioned and trading.

The incoming operator takes assignment of a 10-year lease with 20 years of options — security of tenure most leasehold car wash buyers never get, and the single biggest driver of what the business is worth on exit.

Second Income Stream

The site also carries a second income stream. An established food operator occupies a defined area of the property under a formal licence agreement, paying a monthly licence fee direct to the car wash operator. It runs entirely independently of the wash — no staffing, no management, no operational involvement — while meaningfully reducing the net occupancy cost of the site. It also does what a food operator on a busy arterial always does: brings people onto the property who weren't planning to be there.

The freehold is also available. The site is a 1,217sqm Industrial 3 corner with 71.66m of dual frontage — offered together with the business, or separately.