Spot Free Rinse Car Wash

Came back here again on a busy weekend and was able to find an open wash bay! In and out of there in no time! Things are looking good still!

Credit card machines never work. Get these fixed or don’t advertise that you take cards.

It’s everything I want in a do it yourself car wash. They have the sprayer, soap, and water! I get my truck clean every time I show up! Love the fact they take credit cards because I don’t carry around enough quarters! There’s usually an open stall to drive through, and the soap smells good.

I love that you can use a credit card here! Makes things so much easier. My wash was $ 7, totally reasonable I think.

Doesn’t get any easier than a DIY car wash. Accepts cash/​coins and cards, with a vacuum machine also. Quick and easy. Only thing you might find annoying is when people work at different paces and pull their car out of the wash and it’s like a maze trying to get around. It’s not even a big deal though, so other than that it’s great.

It’s a self service car wash. Prices are cheap, and equipment well maintained. Afternoons seem the busiest, but I’ve never waited that long. They have vacuum equipment too for taking care of your car inside and out. There is a hand dry area as well, but it’s direct sunlight so it’s best to dry windows quickly or inside the car wash stall given the opportunity to prevent water spots.

Great place for those who like to wash their own car. Plenty of bays and a nice area to dry your car on the back side of the bays.

Nice location with plenty of wash bays for even the busiest of days. It can be a little dicey getting into the lot if you are headed west on Garnet due to oncoming traffic. The facility is (usually) pretty clean and well stocked. Keep an eye out for the homeless going through the trash — don’t want valuables disappearing out of the car!
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Since I take pride in my car, I love washing it. Being y first car, I baby it.
In San Diego, I had never seen a self-​service car wash at all in my drives so I decided to Unilocal it. Came across this one.
I decided to give it a try. So I go around 9pm on a Wednesday night expecting tons of people to be there, based on the reviews… But there wasn’t. Only one other car. I was shocked.
Anyway, the wash is super cheap. Because I literally ended up being the only one there, I got to thoroughly wash my car how I wanted. I also have a yakima base rack with bike rack, didn’t harm it at all.
I’ll definitely come back!

Love this place. First off while you wait to wash your car you can use the vacuums. They’re nothing special but they get the job done and its only $ 1 (HAVE QUARTERS for this machine).
Then you get into the wash room. Its simple straightforward and you can use your credit card! Tons of options, though I just usually go for the rise, soap, scrub, rinse method myself.
Anyway the only problem here is sometimes there’s a lame line because of what I like to call «douche city» San Diego coming out to wash their cars that are making up for their tiny you-​know-​whats. Back on track, small dudes, expensive BMWs/​Porches/​Mustangs/​Etc, take over 20 minutes to wash their car, because they cant read. NO DRYING in the Ports! And then when they dont dry in the ports, they decided to take up 2 parking spaces to dry their car outside making it 1) impossible to dry my own car (hint: bring your own towel) and 2) impossible to get out of the place itself.
This place cant help douche city, so im not taking off any stars for that. It’s just a pet peeve of mine.
Overall, amazing place to get a cheap car wash and some exercise at the same time. If you go early on a weekend then there’s usually not a line or too much of a wait.
If I forget my towel I use the spot free rinse and take a drive around Mission Bay. Worth the gallon of gas for the view.

It’s very good for what it is. Is it a professional detail? Heck no, you are doing it yourself. With that said, I am not sure where some of the reviews are coming from.
Is there a lot of options on the sprays and such compared to most other self serves? Absolutely, I was surprised.
Hadn’t washed my car in way too long and for 9 bucks I went over it numerous times and it looked really good after.
Only two complaints:
The tire/​rim rinse is worthless. Just go a car wash setting on them for power.
Did not see an air dry option for car after. Seemed like most people brought their own towels.

I think a lot of people are reviewing the wrong place. This is a self-​service car wash. No attendants. No customer service. Just you and the scrub brushes.
I park my car under a tree (lots of bird droppings and pollen) and drive out to trails (lots of dust or mud), so I try to wash my car every few weeks. I’ve got it down to a point where I can get my car reasonably clean here for just $ 2.50. If you use a $ 5 bill you get six tokens instead of five. Three tokens give you five minutes. I use the high-​pressure soap for two minutes (if you hold the spray very close to your car it will actually power-​blast crud away), high-​pressure rinse for two minutes, then the spot-​free rinse for the last minute. Pull forward and use my own squeegee on the windows and a rag to dry off the body. 10 minutes, sparkly car. Occasionally I’ll pay more and use the foaming brush, but it takes a LOT of rinsing to get all that foam off.
Be warned that you have to pay at least $ 3 at a time and there’s no way to pause. So if you stop, you have to pay $ 3 again, even if you only want to spray your car down for a few seconds. If you use a credit card, you don’t need to pay in whole dollar increments after the first $ 3; the price just runs up by cents until you hit stop.
My one bad experience here was when I tried to wash my father’s car. It hadn’t been cleaned in a long time and even after extensive scrubbing with the foaming brush some spots weren’t coming off. So I tried to scrape at them with my nail through a rag. And the owner (?) came out and told me no cleaning my car without using the pay scrubbers! There are no employees on site so does he live nearby and watch from the window!!! I understand that this is a business and they want to make money, but no one was waiting, there were other empty bays, and I was putting lots of money into their machines. The plan was to do my mother’s car next, but since it was equally dirty we took it to a gas station car wash instead.

Not a bad place for the money. They keep it pretty clean and well maintained. Pop a $ 5 bill in the token change machine, and you’ll get six dollars worth of washing. You’ll get a better wash than non self-​service car wash facilities.
Two reasons why I won’t give this business five stars:
(1) Homeless people tend to stagger around, begging for money
(2) There is a grumpy worker who will yell at you if you dry your car off in the bay, EVEN in the middle of a weekday when there are zero customers anywhere near the place. Objective reasoning fails with this individual.

I wash my car here every week. While I do have a small car, It usually cost me less than $ 8 to wash it. Not just rinse, soap and rinse either. I mean wax, condition, tire rinse and all! The first time I came I forgot a towel, so bring your own!

Found this convenient gem of a self-​service car wash in my ‘hood and I couldn’t be happier. Car washes are one of those things that I really don’t like spending more than $ 10 on when someone else is going to do it because you never know what you’ll get. I have paid $ 60 for a wash and still had to ask them to go back and vacuum once more. What a waste.
But this! This cost me $ 5 and it is open until 10pm. So what that you have to put some muscle in it and DIY. The foamy soap smells amazing, and knowing that with $ 5 my car is vacuumed and sparkling clean, I’m happy!
I definitely recommend trying this place out for yourself.

My favorite way to spend $ 8! How dorky is it that I play a silent game with myself to see if I can beat my time/​credit card charge from my last wash? A race to hit the stop button! More fun than it sounds like, people, trust me. :)
What is it about this place? I actually look forward to washing my car. The vacuum works great at getting almost all of the sand from the beach out of my car, just wish there was a way to really get into the nooks and crannies, but whatever, I’m just going to get more sand in it when I go back to the beach tomorrow anyway.
A word to the sensitive nose, though: one time I used their car fragrance spray, and had the most KILLER sinus headache the second I got in my car after washing. Had to drive home with the windows down to air it out. Frebreze will just have to do.

It’s not the La Jolla Car Wash on Turquoise, but in a pinch, it’s pretty solid. Sometimes there’s a line and people dilly-​dallying, but overall, it’s worth it and affordable if you’re in a rush.
Word to the wise, bring a towel or else you’re gonna be pretty streaky on the way out.

This is most def my favorite place to wash my car. Plenty of room to get the job done. Usually I spend a total of $ 8-​$ 10 PLUS $ 1 for the vacuum.
I drive a Scion TC so there really wasn’t much to wash. quick and easy. I was able to wash everything the way i wanted to and made sure that I got all the right places nice and clean (some places I went to — did crap work and missed a lot of places that made my car streaky).
I was able to wipe my car dry, organize and clean the interior without any problems.

My white SUV has been needing a wash for over a month now! It was super dirty with street scum, surf wax, bird droppings, and everything else under the SD sun! I didn’t want to spend a ton of money for someone else to wash my car. I was looking all over and I found this place on Unilocal after all the positive reviews!
This place is great! You can use dollar bills or credit card! $ 3 gets you 5 minutes and you refill as you like! My car got the works from the tire cleaning, to the cherry scented soap, to the turtle wax, to the spotless dry rinse for $ 8! I can’t complain; my car is white and shiny again. Definitely coming back!

Having a lowered vehicle has eliminated visits to the local car wash as my car is too low to go through. I flat refuse to pay someone else $ 25 to wash my car by hand when I can wash it for way less than half of that price at a «do-​it-​yourself» place.
I was driving down Garnet Ave. one day and came across this place and decided to stop in. I used one of their four vacuums at a cost of $ 2 to vacuum my car which was well worth it. Washing the car only cost me $ 5 (they accept credit cards and change) and they have a decent size area to dry your car off. In the event that you need detailing supplies or a chamois, you can pick one up at the O’Reillys Auto Parts store down the street. Keep an eye out if you wash your car in the evening as I have noticed some homeless people walking around and picking through some of the dumpsters at the nearby apartment complexes.
This is a super convenient location and I will definitely be returning!