Fast Eddies Self Service Car Wash

Why pay someone to scratch up your car when you can wash it yourself and do it right for a fraction of the cost! Fast Eddies has been around since the 70’s and if you’re lucky you may even run into Fast Eddie himself!

I’ve been trying to find a place in SLO where I can wash my car without taking it to an automated car wash. Upon finding this place I thought it would be a location where I can bring all the car products I need and primarily use the car washing bay for the pressure washer. Well, at this place, that can’t happen. I pull up into one of the washing bays and begin to get my buckets setup before I start the rinse cycle. In the corner of my eye I see a gentleman who looks very concerned with what I was doing. Assuming it was the owner who was giving me a dirty look, I proceed to ask if there was a problem. He replies that the use of buckets and wash mits is prohibited at his business. As the name entails, at Fast Eddies they want you to be really fast and do not want you to spend the time to thoroughly wash your car. Instead, they force you to scrub your car with a «soap emitting» broom that is located on the wall –talk about scratch city. As soon as i was aware Eddie was not going to take my business because I chose to use a clean and soft wash mit that I brought with me instead of a dirt infested broom to scrub my car, I drove out of there and found a different self wash business located on Orcutt Rd.
The point of a car wash is to clean your car, not wipe the dirt off leaving streaks behind due to poor wash equipment. I won’t be returning here.

I visited this business once and will not be visiting again. The manager (or owner?) was very rude to me because I was apparently taking too long to wash my car, on a day where all of the other lanes were open and they weren’t even busy. I was under the impression that if I paid for the time that I could use it, but this is apparently not the case.
The first time around, I ran out of time because I spent too long washing the car and wasn’t able to finish washing so that I could rinse it by the time my cycle ran out. This was my fault, as I should have been paying closer attention to the remaining time. But I was nonetheless surprised at how little water and time $ 6.00 will buy you at this place. I bought another session and finished up, though the fact that there seemed to be such a short time limit did stress me out a bit as I hurried to finish up.
All in all it was just an unpleasant experience, but my car did turn out very clean and the equipment they have there was pretty nice (which is why I gave it two stars instead of one). It was cheaper than going through an automated car wash, but still seemed kind of pricey for what you were getting.

Great place to wash and vacuum your car! I couldn’t figure out how to do it and the guy working there helped me so much he basically did it for me! My car was way cleaner than when I do it in my driveway because they have a pressurized hose. Definitely worth the money! Be prepared with $ 6 in quarters for the wash and $ 2 for the vacuum.