Allways Open Car Wash

Do not go to this place unless you want to ruin your paint job. The hand wash service is fine but the do-​it-​yourself is terrible. Hardly any of the dirt was removed after using both the soap and water, but even worse my car is covered in scratches from the crusty brushes they supply you with. I noticed other reviews have complained about the same thing. The damage is so bad I’m considering taking them to small claims court. Do not use this place! It’s worth the extra money to have someone do it by hand or to find a better do-​it-​yourself wash.

Biggest gripe here is the fact that the car wash cost double what it should have. In total I spent around $ 17, but due to the change machine eatting a $ 5 and 2 $ 1 bills it cost twice what it should. When asking around for who is in charge of the place (midday on a weekday) I was told there was only one guy and he «was around». After a 15 min wild goose chase I gave up and bought some quarters off the person in the stall next to me.
I’m giving it 2 stars, as the spray gun and soap brush worked flawlessly. Had it not cost double and if there was some sense of service this would be a 5 star place.

If it weren’t for the fact that the other carwashes in the city suck also, this place would get one star. This place is awful. I have been to this location multiple times. The first time, the change machine ate my money. The second time, the vacuum machine ate my money. The third time, the car wash went great, then I went to go vacuum my car, put four quarters in the vacuum… it didn’t have any suction.
If you need to wash your car, find somewhere other than here… But good luck finding a good place in the city of San Francisco that’s affordable.

They wanted to charge me $ 50 for washing a Sprinter van with a 9′ wheel base. No wax, no vacuum. And when I tried to reason with them, all of a sudden their English wasn’t sufficient. Yeah, right. I’ll pass. You should, too.

clean, easy, to the point car washing. they also have an option for hand washing by someone else. I didn’t see that until I was drying my own car. Bring bills and potential back up quarters. They have a machine that converts bills to coins, but if it’s out you might be SOL

$ 2.50 per wash for 4 minutes. It was okay value wise. DO NOT use their brushes. It will scratch the paint of your car. I bring my own bucket and wash gloves there to wash and rinse. $ 5 for a car wash is not bad value wise. Lots of homeless near the area there.

Run down and gross. Came here and drove away! Also there was a line of cars, so not worth the wait unless you’re desperate for a wash, which you have to do yourself. I’d rather just pay $ 8 – 10 and call it a day elsewhere!

Today was my first time to come to this location. After getting to this place I noticed that I forgot my wallet at home. The owner saw me looking at my trunk and ask me if I need any help. I told him that i forgot my wallet and so im just going to come back to wash my car. To my surprise, the owner offered to pay for my wash. Handed me $ 5 of coins. I was cery touched as he was very kind person. He definitely earned my respect and business. From now on this will be my go to car wash area.
On to the review of the place:
The place is very well maintained and very clean. The brush that i used was new and puts out a lot of soap. The water hose is very strong.
My teachnique in washing my car is bringing my own bucket, sponge and soap. For the first minute, i put the soapy hose on my car and the remaining minutes filling up my bucket and adding some car wash soap. If you want to put time and dedication in cleaning your car then this process is a must. After done washing, i put another $ 2.50 and rinsed my car thoroughly. I am very pleased with location and how easy it is to wash my car over here at this place.
On a side note:
Be mindful of your surrounding and see if there is a line of car waiting to use the facility.
Shout out to the owner who was very nice and kind person. We need more people like you sir now a days. You earned my respect and business.

Solid.
This is the best self-​service car wash I’ve found in the city.
I live in the Inner Richmond but our car wash started with the tokens. Then, for the longest time went to the spot in the SOMA, now they require tokens.
This is now my go to spot. I wish I would have known about this spot 10 years ago!

As far as I can tell, this place really is always open, because I was able to wash my car there at 11pm one night. If similar ill-​advised urges strike you, rest assured there’s plenty of lighting in the stalls.
$ 2.50 for 4 minutes of decently pressured water, which is fine for maintenance washing. I’ve never used their wax or soap options. My routine includes bringing my own bucket, soap, and drying cloths, which works out nicely. The place is a little rundown but completely functional and it suits my DIY car wash needs just fine.

Holy Moly!!! This place just changed my whole life experience in San Francisco! $ 2.50 for a car wash!?! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for but didn’t actually check Unilocal until now. I’m so done paying $ 10 for a crappy auto wash at the local gas station. I know we are in a drought and I’ve been really good at conserving, but after almost 4 months of not washing my car, I conceded. I got in and got out and my car is sparkly again. FYI: the wand is a one-​stop shop with the water and soap coming from the same place, you just have to turn the dial to change settings. I ended up wasting a bit of time expecting the brush to soap up.

This place isn’t pretty. It’s old. It’s rusty. It’s wet. But I really don’t think that’s what they’re after. For me that doesn’t matter either. The change machine works. The equipment works. Soak, lather, rinse, done. I’ve got a pickup truck with a rack so gas station washes don’t allow them. I gave this place a shot because I had some spare time and really needed the truck washed. $ 5 for a good, thorough wash and I splurged a little and spent $ 1 more for a car freshener. I was in and out in 20 minutes. Will be going back again in the future.

I decided to go here after seeing such a high rating on Unilocal.Was shocked when I got there how anyone could have given it a high rating. The stickers are peeling off the sprayer mode selection knobs, the place has pigeons living in the bays and pooping on your car as you wash it (and dropping feathers), and worst of all the wash only has like 3 modes, soap, brush, and regular water spray. A great self serve car wash should have multiple modes from spot free rinse, to engine tire cleaner, wheel cleaner and more. The equipment looked 30 years old and the place also smelled of old stagnant water/​sewage. If they upgraded their systems I’d give this place a much higher rating.

Definitely going back for my car wash! This is my first time ever car wash and had a good time there. Four out of six stalls were open when I got there. Brush and sprayer did their jobs very well. The gentleman who was working there added 3 free minutes when he knew I was using self car wash service for the first time. Very nice guy! Guess I’ll be washing my car more often in the future at Allways Open!

I went to place for the first time today (5÷27÷13) and was pleasantly surprised. I think 5 of the 6 stalls were open. Sprayer and brush were in good condition and worked well. The value is amazing: $ 2 for 4 minutes and add on minutes for only 25¢.
Location is convenient and safe. I’ll be going back!

This is the best self service car wash in San Francisco. $ 2.50 in quarters gives you a few minutes but it typically costs me about $ 4 – 5 to clean my car if I work quickly. Plenty of soap with the brush and and high pressure rinses from the nozzles will blast off any dirt and gets my car looking good.

I can’t decide if my favorite part is the quarter-​eating machines, or the non-​existent vacuum of the «vacuums», or the overpowering stench of urine in the washing bays, or the fact that people just throw the trash out of their cars onto the ground upon which pigeons fly around to eat and therefore you could get your car shit on right after you wash it.
Yea, I think it’s the last one.

I don’t know if this place is «always open», but it’s the most convenient self service car wash for me. It has the most wash bays of any SF car wash I know of (6 up front and 5 more in the rear). Currently the rate is $ 2.50 for the first four minutes, and once started each additional quarter will add 25 seconds (quarters need to be added before time expires). For me it takes $ 3 or $ 3.25 to perform soap rinse, brush cleaning, rinse, and spray wax a sedan). Also it’s currently $ 1 for four minutes of vacuuming. The machines take only quarters but there are two change machines on site.

I’m not much for washing my car (or washing anything, for that matter) but if I’d known about this place I would have been doing it a lot more. Okay, maybe not a lot more. But at least once a year.
After a fender-​bender led me to worry about my insurance company totaling my car, I thought it best to stop by here to create the impression that I am the sort of loving, doting car owner that would not think of accepting less than Blue Book value in exchange for my pampered automobile (rather than the sort of car owner who lets a box of Nerds sit on the floor until it putrefies into a kind of tie-​dye-​colored crust). This facility offered everything I needed to create my illusion. It is a surprisingly pleasant place to spend a warm afternoon: full of industrious people scrubbing and polishing, delightfully powerful water hoses which you must wrangle like angry cobras, and machines that spew satisfying mounds of soapy goo.
Also, I believe you could do well picking up a date here, if you are into large, meaty men in NFL t-​shirts. The car wash atmosphere really seems to get them fired up.

There’s water, there’s something foamy that must be soap, and there’s more water. And for $ 5 you get to use both of them for enough time to say you «washed» your car. That’s about it for the positives, but worthy of an average review.
Just be aware of the negatives:
— the soapy brushes are so beaten down (ie missing bristles, sad and tired) that your toothbrush has better coverage… these things clearly haven’t been replaced since the 70’s
— said soapy brushes *definitely* are used by most to clean brake dust & road oil covered wheels & tires… do you want to smear this all over your car?
— the «wax» setting doesn’t spew wax — just another word for water (actually tested this using a taste test!)
— the sway arms above the wash (which guide the hose/​brush) are terribly built/​positioned, such that you really can never get a good angle on the car without knocking yourself in the head with a hose, or worse, slamming it against your car
— the beeping sound the coin machine makes when you’re running out of time is loud and shrill enough to break your car windows. ok, at least it feels that way…
— the «detail» guys who work behind the car wash ask ridiculous prices: they charged me $ 15 to towel dry my car — which I would have done myself had I not been in heels.
Overall, probably 90% of all city cars would do fine to be washed here, but if you have a nice luxury or sports car or if you actually care about swirls and the like, you might not want to use this equipment.