Royal Oak Car Wash

I just love this car wash! The vacuum is one of the best I've ever used! I have to find a way to be more efficient, but overall I love this place.

Amazing place to clean your RV. It cost about $12 to do my entire camper van. Easy to get to.

Used to be good few years ago, went there a lot of times as I live close by. Quality has went downhill drastically in past 2 years.

1. Card tap does not work half of the times. You end up getting multiple transactions of 6$ each with no coins being dispatched from machine.

2. Their vacuum timer is way too low. Compared it with shine auto wash same price vacuum token, royal oak timing for vacuum is less than half of them.

Always crazy busy. I end up spending 6-8 $ for manual car wash. Why not spend 2-3 dollars extra and save time by going to shine auto wash for 11-12 dollars basic wash??

I was quoted 150$ to shampoo my toyota matrix carpets, drove 30minutes to their small cluttered location. I was told it would be 220+tax. I could have just stayed downtown & gotten a premium shampoo package from a quality auto spa for that rate.

It's an old school car wash, but it gets the job done at a reasonable cost. I would recommend it!

Not a bad car wash just cannot believe this is the only non automatic car wash in all of Vancouver. Price was a little steep seeing as a there's other places that hand wash for the same price. Only went here cause I like to wash my bike on my roof rack. If it's more convenient for you to hit one of the ones where they hand wash for you I would recommend you do that. But this one is not bad.

I have given this place a 5 star based on the following considerations. Before that, however, it is important to know that the 5 star rating is based on: the individual customer knows how to wash a car PROPERLY (i.e. 2 bucket method, not using the foam brush, etc)

So, onto the review. As someone who lives in a high-rise apartment, and has no means to a water hose or a pressure washer, Royal Oak Car Wash is a great place. Usually, they do not allow bucket washing during day hours (so that the waiting time for other customers isn't too long), but if you have time to spare after 10pm, you can bucket wash.

For my experience, I usually go to the carwash around 11, where there are fewer people, and no burning sun to dry off the water that I just sprayed on. Here is how the wash is great:

1.I use two buckets (a wash and a rinse bucket) for hand/bucket cleaning the car, but before that, I use the pressure washer to soak and do a preliminary clean. While car wash fluids can be used with the pressure washer, all I need is water which worked great.

2. Lots of space at night

3. Because they are the only place that even comes close to allowing bucket wash, they deserve a 5 star. (Washworld, for example, does not allow bucket wash using self-bought products at anytime)

Conclusion: If you love your car, and truly knows how to wash your car (not like some reviewers who rates the place 1 star because they used a foam brush that scratched their paint, I mean, duh, anything other than a microfiber towel will scratch your clear coat) then this place is fantastic especially if you, like myself, live in a place without access to washing space or equipment.

Its usually been fine. But now I won't be going back. Not sure if the management changed. But heres why:

1) I spent $6 (3 tokens = 4 min each) and 12 minutes of time high pressure washing, soaping with the "triple foam brush" and high pressure washing the soap off. When my car dried at home, it was just as dirty as it was BEFORE I washed it. I'll post some pictures. Clearly they're cutting the soap SO LOW it did not remove the thin layer of dusty-dirt from rain water on my car.

2) I have seen the owner in the summer chasing customers out of the washing stalls if they are not EXCLUSIVELY washing the car. My boyfriend ALSO was chased out in addition to me witnessing it. (Not sure if he is the owner but he was wearing a turban...management change?)

3) There are 8 options or so for cleaning including: rinse, triple foam brush, tire cleaner, shine, etc. Only the triple foam brush and rinsing ones work -and based on this experience, they don't.-

I would rather spend $8, not get out of my car (though not be able to detail clean myself) and go to the new place on Rumble Street by Edmonds skytrain who offered their customers free car washes for a month back in November. THATS customer service!

Does what it's supposed to do. Very satisfying cleaning the car yourself. I don't recommend using the scrub brushes though- they will scratch the crap out of your paint. Very satisfied with the outcome of the wash.

Nice self service car washing place. Toonie will give you approximately 3,5 mins of service. Pros: lots of spaces, timers display on washing stands, token vending machine accepts cash and credit cards as well.
Cons: no washroom, you cannot even wash your hands, vacuum cleaner cable is short and sucking is very weak.