Bubbles Auto Spa

Came here to use the touch less car wash today and it didn’t even work. Would not accept cash or card, don’t waste your time.

This place is totally crap. Used the self-​serve wash bays. Spent 30 minutes and $ 10 between three bays. None of the selectors sprayed anything but plain water. No soap, no tire cleaner, no wax, no nothing. Tried switching to a different bay, twice with no luck. Asked the service attendant for assistance «you turn the switch like this.» Brilliant. You had one job to do. Total fail. Clean and nice setup, if only the little spray gun was capable of firing off something other than plain water.

What a waste. All I was after was just get rid of tree flowers off my car and it removed 15% of it. The rest was left. And the «triple» dry is a joke. Actually the whole car wash is a joke. If the company spent the money on the car wash instead of the website, Then it actually could be a decent wash. But it’s not even worth the 2 buck air dry. Don’t waste your time or money.
Stay home and use your garden hose.

I go here on a weekly basis. I drive all the way from windmill and rainbow for the place. The front desk is always helpful, like today when the brush was clogged due to cold weather… it was fixed and my previous funds I put in were refunded… thanks. Also the self wash (be a man, wash your own car! Seesh!) accepts credit cards which is super convenient… I just wish the vacuums were done the same way. Overall a great spot.

I drove all the way the office and discovered you can only buy a carwash if the owner is there.

This place is fine if you don’t mind looking like a smurf when you get done. The blue span stains. I see no reason to have blue coloring in the soap to the level that you get stained by it. I swiped my card three times in order to get the machine to finally let me continue, only to find that it charged me 3 times and not for the amount listed. It showed $ 2.00 and I paid $ 3.41 3 times. When we called the owner about making arrangements to bring 100 cars he never returned our calls. So we showed up anyway. The place is fairly clean and has lots of fluffy blue soap. (Don’t get it on you) I don’t know about the vacuums.

If I could leave zero stars I would. Purchased a Groupon for a car wash, and it stated I had to call and make an appointment, so I called at 11:45 am. Who ever answered the phone didn’t seem to know anything about the Groupon but said to come down and we would look at it together. So I showed up 20 minutes later and the only person there could not speak English, or acted like he did not. Tried to ask where the person was that answered the phone and he just kept acting like he didn’t understand. He just pointed at the phone number on the building, so I called it and no one answers the phone. Was a total bullshit run around. It was on the corner of Sahara and Torrey Pines behind the Shell station. Terrible waste of my lunch hour.

First, let me say that I bought 5 washes thru Groupon and I am not sure I will be using all of them. I have been here twice now and I must say I am really disappointed. On both occasions I have come out of there with my truck full of ugly water spots. I did complain to the owner/​manager the first time as there was another person there having the same problem. He got out his power washer and rinsed it off and had one of his employees hand dry it. He also checked the wash and rinse solutions but they were fine. He then stated that maybe it was because it was so hot and this was in the afternoon and the sun was hitting the front end of my truck. I thanked him and left. I came back again, this time in the morning, and I had the same problem! Water spots all over the front and windows of my truck. It looks like crap! I will have to take it somewhere else to have it cleaned of all the water spots. It also does a lousy job of cleaning. There was dirt still left on my truck both times. I will probably not use up the remaining 3 washes I have left on my Groupon. The sad thing is that I live way on the other side of town and not only wasted my time, but my gas and the cost of the Groupon as well.

I don’t know why I keep coming here. Nine dollars for a wash isn’t worth it. Even the five dollar wash is a waste. I guess I keep coming back because it’s close to home, but I forget that it’s terrible. Every time I leave I regret it and I come home to spots on my car still. He gets the dirt off don’t get me wrong, but as far as spots my car looks like it was just rained on.
The trash cans are always full, even first thing in the morning. The vacuums work pretty good, but I can go to Terrible Herbst on Jones and Sahara and use free vacuums. I’m not coming back anymore.

For $ 10 I can’t expect much and from an automatic car wash I know to expect mediocre results but for an auto car wash that has a YouTube video and webpages promoting its excellent results, and after paying for the best possible wash called the Deluxe for $ 10, I’d at least expect my car to not come out looking worse than it went in. If the dryer worked at all I’d be happy but my car has tiny water spots on every single panel and I now have the pleasure after spending $ 10 of going home and re-​washing my car myself. Not close to my house at all, not worth the drive nor the money, nor the hype. Not coming back again.

I’ve been here a few times and liked it so far. I live far from this location but when on their side of town I tend to make an effort to get my car washed at Bubbles. The have a no touch car wash machine that works really good. I went here for my first time when I lived close to the area but I’ve moved since then. I also ran into some blog they have that has a lot of really cool DIY methods to cleaning or auto detail your vehicle and thought that was cool of them to share some knowledge with the local community. I recommend them and will probably continue to make a stop in their area whenever I’m around.

Does a pretty good job for a totally touch less system. The prices are comparable to other washes in the area. The car I washed was black and did have some spots on it, but it could have been worse. Will definitely return.