Midway Car Wash

What an automatic car wash should be — convenient (it’s right off Snelling), cheap ($ 5 for a basic wash, upgrades available), and easy (unlike a gas station car wash you don’t have to maneuver your car in small spaces). Plus you get free use of vacuums.
I miss the old d-​i-​y car wash where you could have soap wars, but the automatic wash gets the job done without having to worry about running out of quarters.

They used to do $ 5 washes but now its $ 6 for the lowest tier wash. It’s still a good price and the workers are genuine nice guys. They don’t seem super fake, just regular guys. The vaccuum is $ 1 so I can’t complain. I’ll keep coming back and next winter I will probably do the $ 20 unlimited wash pacakage to keep the salt off.

It’s fine. Their schtick is the $ 5 wash (with which you receive use of a vacuum as well, which is convenient), and I guess you get what you pay for.
I will say this: it’s brand new and quick and easily accessible, and there’s usually an attendant there (whose function I am unclear about – the car wash seems to be set up to be totally automated, but the box in front of the door seems to be operable only by the attendant, which seems… inefficient? confusing?)
But my car is always soapy and streaky afterward, and gets dirty again right away. Living in Minnesota, where winter means a constant film of grime on your car, this wash is better than nothing, but other car washes leave my car shiny for days or weeks afterward. If I’m looking for a really good wash, I’d rather pay a little more for the Downtowner.