Neighborhood Car Wash

My dad swears by this car wash. It was cheap and sufficient. $ 7.00 for a wash and it didn’t take too long either.

I was here on a rather busy Sunday afternoon 50 °F in January so the lines were 2 – 3 deep for self serve and out onto Kingshighway for automatic.
the good: change machine, soap and wand all were in good working order. paid $ 2.50 for about 6.5 minutes of self serve wash time. opted out of taking a go at my car with the vacuum but they all seemed to be working.
the bad: the layout of the place when crowded is challenging to navigate when crowded, even in my sub compact car. it sits on a postage stamp of a lot.
overall I’d be back but this isn’t anything super special as car washes go.

I recently used the car wash as I do regularly and have for a few years. It is apparent that they have spent some money recently to maintain the equipment. Everything worked great (vacuums and tunnel)! This is the best self service car wash in the city hands down… And the cheapest. It is well maintained and in great working condition. The one time I had an incident with equipment not working I called the number on the door and was called back that afternoon to resolve the issue. Yes, it is self service so you’re on your own. Great place to detail your car, or just run through a tunnel to knock the dirt off. Navigating around the building after wash is tight but other than that no gripes.

The Neighborhood Car Wash is a somewhat economical self serve car wash that is conveniently located near Arsenal on Kingshighway. I’m not particularly fond of this car wash, but it’s okay in a pinch. They have all of the basics like self serve and automatic stalls in good working order. The layout of the vacuums isn’t great. One vacuum gets in the way of the driveway where the cars are leaving the stalls and there are no vacuums at the automatic stalls. the car wash is mostly unmonitored with questionable characters and the occasional panhandler.

If you are looking for an «Economical» car wash, this is an interesting place to go.
Its entirely self-​service (think like a car wash vending machine. I’m pretty sure there is literally no one working here.
To get a car wash you pay a machine and then just pull your car in. There are almost no instructions. You literally just park in the car wash and the machine moves around the car (rather the traditional pull through method).
If cheap and self-​service is your game, than give it a try (its very fast). I much prefer a more full service shop like cardinal.

I am always willing to give a business the benefit of the doubt when I have questionable experiences while at their establishment, and this car wash is no different. However I have tried and tried to keep a happy face when I come here and each time the frown clown shows his ugly head.
weather its the vacuum not working, the wash wand not having soap, the trash cans so full you can’t throw anything away, the dirty parking lot /​dirty bays, I keep returning in hopes that its going to get better and it never does.
luckily today I was able to get vacuumed however the wash cycle with no soap was a little annoying, so this will be my final stop at this location. choose your car washing locations wisely, if you would like to give these guys a chance go ahead, and form your own opinions.

Car was dirty on arrival. Now it is, well, not. Success!

This is by far the worst car wash ever. I live close by so I’ve tried it a few times, but never again. The vacuums rarely work. The only thing that works in the car wash is water. No soap, no wax, no tire cleaner, nothing. Half of the brushes are broken, or not even there. The vending machine that sells rags and such is always empty. There is trash everywhere, and if your lucky you will drive over broken glass too.

I’ve only used their drive-​thru car washes, but they are fantastic and I am a huge fan.
I’ve taken three different vehicles through here and been VERY happy with the results every time. I like that you can pay cash or charge/​debit for the wash directly from your car. The menu of packages and pricing is clear, as are the instructions for selecting, paying, and using the wash. They have a bay for a touchless wash (no sponges, etc. coming into contact with the vehicle surface) and a bay for the good olé scrub down with brushes, sponges, flappers, and what not. I used the touchless on a car with a broken side mirror because I was concerned it would otherwise get ripped off, and had good results. Both automatic washes do a very thorough job. They give you a full minute of drying time and the blowers work really well.
If you, like me, have a tendency to put car care a little lower on the priority list, a trip to the Neighborhood Car Wash will leave you feeling like you made a worthwhile investment. When you see how good your vehicle looks, it might even make you want to take better care of it!

I don’t wash my car very often, so the few times I make it to an automatic car wash that isn’t attached to a gas station, patting myself on the back for taking car of my vehicle, I expect things to work. I’ve been to this place before and everything worked, and I’ve lines of cars waiting to get into either of their two automatic bays, but today was not the day for me and the Neighborhood Car Wash.
When I got there I was like, hm, noones here today, that’s odd, so I picked the Foam Brite bay because last time I got the touchless spray wash. I selected my wash and tried to run my debit card through, (another reason I came back here because I remembered they accepted credit cards), but it didn’t work. Then I tried my credit card, that didn’t work. I backed up and tried the same thing in the touchless bay, that didn’t work. I backed up again and went back to Foam Brite after rummaging around and found enough cash to use, but no that didn’t work. So, I backed up again and tried my cash in Touchless, which did work.
At this point, I was just thinking, ok fine, at least that worked, so I thought I’d go the extra mile and actually vacuum my car out. The first vacuum machine I pulled next to had an out of order sign, so I backed up and parked by another one, and tore all of my top and bottom mats out of my car, inserted 75 cents, and the vacuum barely worked! I could have sucked more grime out of my car with a straw than what this thing was doing. It was totally either stopped up or just broken, but the management of this place just lets people stick their money into this thing for nothing. I was so mad at this point. I will never go back to The Neighborhood Car Wash, that was just plain frustrating.