Going to share a lot of details in this post, of the entire car wash experience. I paid for the $30 "Platinum" package. I won't be going here again, and I really hope someone opens up a wash nearby in Prosper/Celina area. The only reason these folks are in business now is due to the area's growth, not due to their business practices.
Here was my experience...
1. It took about 5-8 mins to roll through the wash machine. The brushes in the machine seem OK, but I wouldn't take cars with softer paint through it. This is a machine-car-wash, not a hand-wash, and you can expect excess dirt from prior cars to be caught in the same cloth brushes that are now slapping against your car's paint.
2. Post-machine, I pull into one of the bays, and wait for someone to hand-dry the rest, spray & wipe the exterior (areas the machine missed), do rims/tires/interior vacuum, etc. The car sat for 39 minutes and 34 seconds until someone touched it (I timed this entire thing).
3. After the car sat for 40 minutes, there's nothing left to dry really. It sat in the sun the entire time; whatever residual water was left after the machine-wash is all evaporated by now.
4. The person who finally got to the car, did not wipe down dirty areas the machine missed, and took 17 minutes to "finish" the car. They did vacuum the inside mats, and wipe down the interior surfaces. He sprayed the wheels & rims.
5. OK, all done right? It's been about 1 hour 10 minutes so far... WRONG. Not done. I notice my front license plate is missing. "Did it fall off while taking it through the machine?" I wonder. So I flag down the guy who did my car and asked him, he said "oh yeah, I found a license plate in the wash earlier and set it aside, let me go see if the numbers match" and he runs off to get it. Yes, they matched, it was mine. Question: Why did this guy not have the common sense to check the plate against the cars that were already here in the bays waiting? If I hadn't walked around my car looking for missed areas, etc (for this review), I wouldn't have noticed my front plate and would have driven off without it! This guy is a joke. At best he's ignorant and not thinking, at worst he's being willfully subversive in hiding the plate in hopes that the customer doesn't see it missing and get upset. Look dude, I'm not upset, but you can't hold a license plate back there and not saying anything about it! Insane.
Final opinions:
- The only reason this car wash is in business, is because this area is growing and people don't have any other options. If you're looking to open a competing car wash, contact me; I'd love to go in together on one.
- Poor value for the money. $30 and it's a total joke all around: service, quality, timeliness, and end-results are ALL sub-par.
- Clearly they need to hire, and the owners need to put some money back into this business. The waiting room was a mess, magazines from 2017 still sitting on the tables, couch and chair surfaces cracking and breaking, TV not working. Ugh. At least the AC was on.
- See attached photos for their prices/menu, waiting room, car bays, and a few areas on my car they missed (these were obvious dirty areas that should have been cleaned up before keys handed back to the customer). read more