Florida man shares how much money he's made after buying and renovating a car wash
Published on Dec 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM (UTC+4)
by Henry Kelsall
Last updated on Dec 09, 2025 at 10:09 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
A Florida man has shared how much his self-service car wash has made after buying and renovating it around a year ago.
YouTuber StephentheInvestor bought the car wash a year ago. The previous owner had become tired and disinterested in maintaining the business.
Having come to an agreeable price, Stephen bought the car wash and set about renovating it and upgrading it to be more appealing for customers.
A video on his YouTube channel shows him going through the various machines and dispensers to see how much money the car wash had made over a week.
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Why the YouTuber bought the self-service car wash
Stephen explained how and why he came to buy the car wash from the previous owner.
Having become disinterested in maintaining the car wash, the owner decided to sell up and see if anyone else wanted to run it.
Hoping to continue allowing it to serve the community, Stephen bought it for $425,000.
After that, He spent over $100,000 extra to renovate the wash and to upgrade some of the facilities.
Stephen upgraded the money dispensers and card readers, and slightly extended the building as well.
That was around a year ago.
Since then, Stephen has kept on trying to maintain it and see how much money it can make.
Stephen counts the coins at the end of a week
While it does take card payments, a lot of people still pay in cash and coin at the facility.
The YouTuber has to go around every machine at the end of the week to take out the coins and dollar bills.
He then has to sort them to see how much he has made.
Thankfully, coin counters and bill counters make the process much easier for him to count.
The coin counter tallies up how many coins there are.
Stephen then works out what that equates to in dollars.
The bill counter, meanwhile, works that out for him as it counts and identifies each bill.
At the end, Stephen revealed that he had received a total of $2,133 in cash and coin payments.
Add in the credit payments, and it came in at $5,213.25 – not bad, although he confessed that it wasn’t the most lucrative week.
Henry is a content writer with nearly ten years experience, having written for various publications since 2017. Qualifying with a Sports Journalism degree from Staffordshire University, Henry loves all things automotive but has a particular soft spot for classic Japanese cars and anything Lancia. He also has a curious passion for steam locomotives.
