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    Escondido Valley Car Wash

    3.5 (255 reviews)
    Open 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Jenny V.

    This place is grate and they work fast. My car wash was quick and nice. They gave me a free air freshener with my wash. I asked the guy wish one was the most popular and he said the New Car smell.

    Scratch & dent

    Terrible. Whatever they use to wipe the inside looks/feels like its oil, they used a dirty rag so no I have a bunch of dirt all over my dash. Got home & found a new dent/scratch. Never coming back & told my family/friends to not come here.

    Still dirty!!!
    Cyndi S.

    I read the reviews and still have benefit of the doubt. The place is dirty so why I thought my car would be clean? I don't know!

    Receipt for dirty wash & wax job.

    Took my wife's car to this car wash the 1st time this morning. I told the fellow on the intake side I wanted the $28 dollar Platinum wash. He said "leave the key in the car and we'll take care of it." I went inside and the cashier was nice. Paid the $28 on a card and took a seat. I barely had time to read the news on my phone when about 10 minutes later a middle aged fellow came in and said the car is finished. I said: "What? In 10 minutes?" "We've got 5 guys!" he exclaimed. "Wow!" I thought to myself. "These guys must be really great!" I walked to her car in the blinding sunshine and it didn't look like it was that great of a wash and there was no tire dressing. I got in and there was no air freshener smell. That's okay, I don't really like it anyway. Drove straight home in about 15 minutes. The wife came out and we inspected the car. There were soap and light mud streaks in various places. Pollen spots in various places. Dirty spots on the passenger side of the windshield. Light muddy water streaks on the back and sides and again, no tire dressing. She gave me a dressing down - that's for sure. I got back into the car and drove right back. I was met by the intake boss again and I explained to him the problem with the car. I was upset and said for $28 I expected the job to be done right! In fact I told him that if they didn't do it right I was going to be on Yelp and all kinds of Social Media complaining! I showed him that there wasn't even a tire dressing put on. He apologized and said "I'll take care of it. I'll run it through again." I sat there with my phone again for about 10 or 12 minutes and he came into the store and said it was finished. I walked with him out to the car and the front door was conveniently, invitingly open. There was a lot of shiny tire dressing on the tires. He wiped the a little on the left rear quarter panel next to the tail light and said it looks okay now or something to that effect. I'm not one for arguing and I had to pick up my medicine at Walmart so I said "Thanks," and drove off. At the Walmart parking lot without him around and others watching me I gave the vehicle a thorough inspection. It looked like in the 10 minutes I sat there for the 2nd time all they did was hit all 4 tires with tire dressing and wipe the passenger side window and toss in some crappy air freshener which almost choked me to death. For $28 the PLATINUM WASH for a vehicle is supposed to receive the following: VACUUM SEALER WAX TRIPLE POLISH WAX UNDER CARRIAGE WASH TIRE DRESSING SOFT TOWEL DRY FOAM BATH CLEAR COAT PROTECTANT RAIN X WHEEL TREATMENT WINDOWS IN & OUT AIR FRESHENER I just took a couple of photo's when I got home and you can clearly see how lousy this wash and wax job was. Look at everything promised for $28. And what is "Clear Coat Protectant" when there was supposed to be "Sealer Wax and Triple Polish Wax?" Yeah, I sure got a WAX JOB alright! In conclusion I'm 78 and I'm limping with a back operation. I also had open heart surgery with 4 bypasses put in. But I haven't lost my brains or my experience! I started washing and waxing my Father's car and my Mothers car when I was 12. In my teens I worked at a car wash sometimes 10 to 12 hours per day in the summers. I used some of that money to pay for my University education. Through the years I've hand washed many of the cars and trucks I've owned and I've put them through many car washes. In other words, these guys are messing not only with a Senior.. but an old man that's been around 'n done it! So it's said "FAFO" and "Money Talks and B.S. Walks." Those are truisms. They can keep their B.S. phony wash and wax business 'cause I'm taking my money elsewhere. And by the way, so is my son, my daughter-in-law, her mother and several of my friends and neighbors. Anyone else who reads this BEWARE! Look at the photos.

    As you can see there is still plenty of lint, etc & my car wasn't even really dirty when I took it to begin with.
    Kerri K.

    I could of done as good of job as they did & saved myself money. It wasn't "horrible" but def wasn't great either. I just get disappointed if I pay to have my car cleaned & then I get it back & it's not vacuumed or wiped down really well, to me that defeats the point of going to have my car cleaned. They employees were nice , my car was done pretty quick but as you can see from the photos they didn't vacuum great on the drivers side. Rest of the car was pretty good.

    I paid $28 and they barely vacuumed. Didn't vacuum in between seats or under the mat. They seemed to just vacuum the floor mat and nothing else. Didn't wipe down inside of door or cupholders either. Overall unimpressed and disappointed. Had to go home and vacuum and wipe down the entire inside of the car myself which they should've done.

    Dirty rims. NOT CLEAN
    Chris F.

    They rush for no reason. I went today 12-08-2024 and they did not clean my car very well. Even on a non busy day. yes I made of payed $28. BUT COME ON why even pay for something they aren't giving effort on.The front person outside was to busy talking on the phone while I was trying to ask some questions and didn't really explain to me the difference of VIP and Platinum. They left my rims dirty which I had to do myself later on and left small scratches. And REMINDER it's a 2025 car, I just got this car 2 weeks ago and I am disappointed on the service they are doing. I would not recommend to come to this place AT ALL.

    Still not clean for $28.

    Over an hour and I still need to finish washing it myself. Thanks for taking my $30 so I could wash it later. Won't be back. Very slow and horrible service.

    Steve S.

    Came here originally for a car wash to be honest they didn't do a great job - the Windshield was left dirty and saw a few other details that were over looked. I came back because I realized that you end up paying almost the same amount for a nice hand car wash than just running it through a machine and weird huge hair dryer that doesn't even get all of the water spots off. Their top of the line is like $25 - soapy joes or any other drive thru car wash is damn nearly 20$ ...... I do not understand why you would even opt to go to another shop. You can get your car waxed for 60$ .... That's amazing. Gonna have to get the girlfriends car waxed here tomorrow.

    Karisma H.

    Went and got a wash today. We selected the Supreme, which includes detail. This is what we got back... definitely not happy with the detail.

    Paid extra for VIP expecting a little better job, but they still suck

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    They were quick and thorough even though my truck was a mess! It was a super deal for the $39. Totally worth the price.

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    Been going for years. Best car wash around don't have to towel dry or vacuum yourself This place is awesome !

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    1 year ago

    Clean lobby. Nice employees. Did a great job with the vacuuming. I had lots of dog hair and I'm surprised they got it all!

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    Best deal in town, if you don't like the results just let them know and they will make it right

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