Sparkle Brite Car Wash

It’s hard to find a good car wash place, but Sparkle Brite gets the job done when it’s too cold for me to wash, rinse, and wax on my own.
I recently made my first visit here when I just needed an exterior wash. A couple of attendants sprayed down my car and got the hubcaps rinsed and bright. Once in neutral, my car traveled with me inside down the line through the car wash. About two minutes later, it was outside of the wash and being dried by a swarm of workers.
Compared to other places with similar service (and — unfortunately — there isn’t a glut of them to choose from), I thought that this place was priced slightly less competitively. Its location is only somewhat convenient and can be difficult to get to where it is situated on Shelbyville Rd. I also didn’t like paying at the end instead of the beginning; I was ready to zip off in my shiny car and instead had to trundle up to the register and wait behind a few people, which felt like something of a hassle.

Poor customer service. Paid for exterior package with tires and had the gentleman tell me he wasn’t going to do my tires. Yikes figure it out guys… disconnect between what was asked for and the end station. Won’t be back

Prices are slightly decent, but you will have to pay to get your tires and wheels fixed after they are slashed and ruined. They have a disclaimer so won’t replace when their equipment malfunctions. At least my slashed up car looks sparkly bright.

I HAD $ 220 STOLEN FROM THIS CAR WASH AND HERE IS MY STORY…
I went to this car wash about a month and a half ago because I read some decent reviews.
I pulled in and dropped my car off to the people at the beginning of the line. I forgot to grab my phone before I got out of the car so I went back to grab it and boy am I thankful that I did!
I had $ 220 in an envelope in my car and when I got my car back and looked for the envelope I found it, but sure enough it was empty as can be! Some of you may ask, why would you leave $ 220 in a car that people you don’t know are cleaning? The answer is that I really hoped that I could trust in a local business owner to hire honest and trustworthy employees. This obviously was not the case.
After I filed a police report I attempted to contact him and it took several days to finally get a hold of him. After finally getting a hold of him, he was extremely rude on the phone and more or less called my character and honesty into question.
I eventually realized that he wasn’t going to compensate me for the $ 220 lost at his carwash. He did say that he would give me 4 free car washes. I finally agreed to that but it took another 2 weeks for him to finally answer my phone calls to get the car washes!
This place is a terrible and please avoid it at all cost!

This is one of the best car wash places out in the east end. Good pricing, and a good wash, I usually get the #4 (it’s not called that but it’s the next one up from the #3) and my car looks awesome inside and out. The pricing ranges from $ 16 for outside only upto $ 27 for full inside and out.
I did once splash out and got the full detailing service for $ 65, with this you also get an extra layer of wax applied by orbital buffer, this coat lasted a good 5+ months so I thought worth the extra cash. Allow at least an hour for this though.
If you want to get in and out try going on a Sunday morning before 11am, (they open at 10am); Sat/​Sun afternoons get busy, expect to wait as long as 20 minutes before they start on your car.
The only negative comment about it is that it’s almost impossible to turn left onto Shelbyville road from their location, you have to got right and do a U-​Turn at some point. But for that little niggle it’s definitely worth it.

Okay, it’s really cheap. Your car will come out shinning. But … beware, it can come out scratched. I had some mud stains on my hood and I guess they used too much pressure with the manual hose before it got into the wash and did a number on my hood.
To be fair, I guess if your car doesn’t have any tough spots, this place is probably good, but I wouldn’t take a new car here.

It seems like there are fewer and fewer full service car washes around these days. That little drive through thing at the gas station is all well and good, but somebody’s got to vacuum up the dog hair in my back seat…
What? You didn’t think it was going to be me, did you?
Enter the fine people at Sparkle Brite. They are fast and thorough and they never roll their eyes at my little matchbox car when they are wiping it down next to some other car that costs about as much as my house.
The sign says they are not responsible for antennas that dont retract, but I always ignore that because my antenna does retract. It just doesn’t do it by itself. You have to shove it down into the car yourself. I also have crank windows. Stop judging.
Every other time I’ve been, they have taken care of my antenna. This past time they forgot. And I forgot. And it got a little bit bent going through the wash. It seems to be fine, and I will certainly go back, but I’m holding them to 3 stars for it for now.