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A Clear Water Car Wash bay with a black BMW and a white VW being washed under a stone-and-blue-trim canopy on a sunny Peninsula day

Self-Serve · Since 2004

Self-Serve Car Wash.
22 Years on the Peninsula.

$4 gets you a four-and-a-half-minute wash. Four locations along 101 — Mountain View open 24 hours.

Find the Nearest Wash How it works
  • Open7am – 10pm daily
  • PayCard or token
  • Vacuum$2 / 3 min

01 — Menu

Pull in. Pay. Wash. Vacuum. Drive home clean.

No memberships. No upsells. No attendants. Just a clean bay, good water pressure, and a wand you control.

Wash bay

$4 Quick Rinse

4 min 30 sec

A fast in-and-out. Best for the weekly road-grime knockdown or a quick rinse after a coastal drive.

  • Soap
  • Rinse
  • Dry

Wash bay — best value

$10 Full Cycle

12 minutes

Time enough to hit foam, brush, tire cleaner, wax, and spot-free rinse. The one most regulars buy.

  • Pre-soak
  • Foam
  • Brush
  • Tire & wheel
  • Wax
  • Spot-free rinse
  • Dry

Vacuum station

$2 Vacuum

3 minutes

Heavy-duty industrial vacuums under the iconic blue domes. Bring quarters or use tokens.

Payment

Card or Token

Most bays take credit cards. Token-only bays are clearly marked. Token changers on site.

  • Credit card
  • Token

02 — Locations

Four bays along the Peninsula.

From South San Francisco down to Mountain View, there’s a bay within a few minutes of 101. One is open 24 hours.

03 — How it works

Five steps. Under fifteen minutes.

If you’ve never used a self-serve before, here’s the whole thing.

  1. 01

    Pull in.

    Open bay, head straight in. Skip any bay with a car already in it — pick the next one over.

  2. 02

    Tap card or drop a token.

    Pay station mounted on the bay wall. Card-only and token-only bays are clearly marked.

  3. 03

    Pick a setting on the wand.

    Pre-soak, foam, brush, tire cleaner, rinse, wax, spot-free, dry. Cycle through as you go.

  4. 04

    Wash, top to bottom.

    Roof, hood, sides, wheels. Two to three full passes on a $10 cycle is comfortable.

  5. 05

    Pull over to vacuum.

    Blue-dome stalls, $2 for three minutes. Floor mats, footwells, seats, trunk. Drive home clean.

Close-up of a Clear Water Car Wash pay station: yellow Bay #1 sign, $4 sticker, magic wand selector with colored buttons for soap, foam, brush, rinse, wax, and dry
The pay station and wand selector. $4 buys 4 min 30 sec.

04 — The story

22 years of clean cars on the Peninsula.

Bob opened the first Clear Water bay in March 2004. Twenty-two years later he’s still the one running it — sole proprietor, four locations from South San Francisco down to Mountain View, no franchise, no headquarters in another state.

The pitch is simple. A clean bay. Good water pressure. A wand with every setting. Four dollars, four-and-a-half minutes, and you’re done.

It’s why people keep coming back. Some of them, for a really long time.

Since
2004
Locations
04
MV bay
24h

“I’ve been using this car wash for a while now (12 years plus). I’d have to say this is one of the best if not, the best self-serve…”

— Customer review, Yelp

Find your nearest bay.

Tap a location below and Google Maps will route you straight there.

South San Francisco 227 Hillside Blvd San Mateo 341 E Hillsdale Blvd Redwood City 1641 Broadway St Mountain View — 24h 466 N Shoreline Blvd