Green Lantern Express Service Car Washes

They do a pretty good job on the outside but the inside just flat out sucks. I clean out all trash make sure that all my stuff is put away and yet nothing is cleaned. Their was no wait today and it was just pathetic. The girl delivered the car out, and I opened my door and it looks exactly as I handed it off. I understand it’s 11.00 but good grief this is just sad. I will not return and encourage our family to take our buisness elsewhere.

I realize it’s a $ 32 int/​ext clean, not a $ 100 detail, but these folks do not pay any attention to detail. I waited 45 minutes, and I’ll spend another 30 minutes myself finishing the job. They were very friendly, however.

I’ve gone here a few times now and I’m always very pleased. I always get the full package inside and out. My last visit was id say the longest I’ve had to wait and it wasn’t that long. Not long enough to frustrate me and I’m very impatient. They still took the time to give attention to detail when taking care of the inside and out. Very pleased, I’m sure they will be getting more of my money.

Great place to get your car or tuck fully cleaned and fast but today was a true disappointment wanted the full inside and out lady said while paying her boss said it would be 1.5 hours til I could get interior cleaned the cleaning bay and the bay’s are pretty empty what is up with this ???

I got «The Works» on our car after returning from a road trip to Florida. A friend had recommended this place to me.
The outside of the car looked great. No complaints there whatsoever. The car wash did a great job.
The inside of the car was all right, but there was still sand in places, which was the whole reason I paid somebody else to clean it. It definitely looked better than it did before I went, but it wasn’t as clean as I was hoping.
I’ll probably return for the wash, but not the detail. At $ 34 total, I didn’t feel I got my money’s worth. But if I had paid for the wash only, I would have felt better about it.

Having moved north I’ve been in search of a nice, automatic car wash. I’ve come to find out that I was severely spoiled by the place I used to use in Lenexa (see my review on them).
I pulled up to the very impressive looking Green Lantern facility. Cars were everywhere looking all dapper from a fresh wash. There were employees moving around, wiping things down, etc.
So I get in line and I have two choices. A members line and a non members line. I wasn’t a member so I picked the non members line. What’s the difference? Well members basically have their payment information stored by green lantern so all they have to do is swipe a card, pick thier wash, and a gate opens and let’s them in. It’s supposed to be faster.
If you’re a non member like I was you have to wait in line to talk to a human. This human has a pamphlet with your was choices. They ask you if you want the full monte, in this case costing $ 32. I opted no and instead went for the $ 12 super wash. I then hand the human my payment and they let me in.
OK that just seems silly right there. So in order to avoid dealing with a human you have to become a member. That seems to be the only benefit.
So I got my car washed. Nothing fancy but the was did a great job. Car was nice and clean. Next I wanted to vacuum. Wait I didn’t pay for interior service and there didn’t appear to be any sort of self service vacuums so no Bueno on the vacuuming. Looks like I was doing it at home.
This last part really irritated me. I just paid $ 12 to have my car washed by a machine and you can’t provide me a vacuum to use on my own? I wonder if it wasn’t clearly marked or if I really had to pay to have someone do it if I wanted my car vacuumed?
Anyhow I probably will be finding another car wash.

The Burlington car wash is closer to my house and it’s fine, but Green Lantern is really where it’s at — great attention to detail and friendly employees. Definitely go here if your car is dirty (and you know it is!).

Just a warning to everyone… I went to Green Lantern yesterday. The staff was very friendly, but upon getting through the wash, I realized they had cracked my windshield. It was a very cold day in Liberty, but they had the water too hot and the temperature change caused a hairline crack to develop and grow across the front windshield. While the staff was very nice, the G. M told me that it is not Green Lantern’s policy to cover damage they inflict on vehicles, and he did not have authority to override that policy. Clearly from talking to the G.M., I’m not the only one who has encountered this issue with their specific car wash. My car is ten years old, and I’ve gone through plenty of carwashes over the years on equally cold or colder days, and there were no chips or anything in the windshield, so I really do consider this a unique issue with their car wash.
So, buyer beware — it was a decent job of washing the car and the staff was friendly, but they won’t stand behind any harm they cause to your vehicle.

Bottom line up front: This place really BLOWS! No really, the best drying system I’ve ever seen at any car wash. Above average clean. No tire shine. No vacuums.
If you’re looking for a quick wash and you’re a stickler about water marks on your car, this is a great place to go. My car had not been washed in months and it came out looking awesome. Even though it still looks awesome when it’s dirty, I mean it a sexy lookin’ red Camaro. Anyways, the drying system used at this car wash blew me away… And all the water, too. I’ve never seen more than three dryers let alone an enclosed area just for the drying process. To put things into perspective, I usually spend about 15 – 30 mins after a car wash to do some hand drying with my own towels. Not necessary with the green lantern, I think I spent less than 1 min. This place would be awesome if they offered tire shine as an option and provided vacuums, even if you had to pay to use. But, this is a still a great place to get a quick wash without leaving the paint damaging water residue.

Why do I keep coming back to this place… Because it’s the closest thing to me, unfortunately. I go to Green Lantern when I desperately need a semi-​wash and too lazy or the weather doesn’t permit for me to wash my car myself. Don’t get me wrong, this is a nice establishment with friendly staff but the place doesn’t completely wash my car, and for what you pay for.
Green Lantern has 3 different wash options, a basic ($ 8), super ($ 12), and ultimate ($ 16). I’ve only done their washes, not detailing so this review will strictly be about their washes. I’ve been going here for several years on/​off. I usually go cheap and go with the basic wash however for $ 8, i still found dirty remnants left behind so i decided to upgrade and started doing the super. I found a slight difference in the cleanliness of my car. For $ 4 more my car should have been way cleaner! The only thing I like about the Super is that it cleans my tires and rims. I have done the ultimate once and never again! It was basically the Super wash, I found no difference at all! Not to mention the heating vents doesn’t dry your car well either and the rinse doesn’t completely wash away the soap remnants.
Basically, Green Lantern to me is a mediocre car wash. It’ll clean your car with left over residue at an over price rate.

Whenever I don’t feel like spending 2+ hours cleaning my car (I’m super meticulous when I wash my car) I go to Green Lantern. They always do a great job on the exterior of my car and get 5 stars on that. What keeps Green Lantern from getting five stars is that they always fail to clean the interior properly. At a quick glance, the interior always looks good but it never fails that I find pretty obvious failures in cleaning on my way home. From things not being wiped down well enough to my windows always being smeared, it never fails. For the price, I shouldn’t have to go home and go back over their work. I have brought this to their employees and managers before and they will redo it but you’d think it would be done right the first time.
Exterior– 5 stars
Interior– 2 stars
Service — 5 stars

I am partial to writing reviews about places I love. I have a near-​obsessive love of a clean car. I actually love washing my car. Friends would not call it a love… they would call it an obsession. A clean car makes me happy. A clean car makes me feel good. A clean car makes me grateful for my car… and the sun… and the blue sky.
Essentially, a clean car is one version of godliness, IMHO. (Another is a big container of Nutella with a bowl of fresh fruit and an amazing, flaky croissant, but I digress.) I’m weird like that. I love cars. Clean ones. I have lived in KC for 9 weeks and 6 days (to be exact). During that time, I have spent a half dozen days out of town. It has snowed a few times. There has been one small ice storm. It has rained a couple of times. And in those almost-​ten weeks, I have had my car washed no less than SEVEN times. Keeping in mind that I am unemployed currently, spending money on car washes during this time of year is… well, maybe it is not SO wise.
And so it is that I come to review Green Lantern Express. It had been days (ha!!) since my last car wash. It had snowed. I had spent time on the highway, getting slushed by 18-​wheelers. I had been to my Mom’s, where they’d gotten more snow than KC. My car was a mess. I was obsessing. I tried the Lantern.
What a cluster!
I just did the basic exterior wash. I think it was a buck more than other places I have been. My expectations were reasonable and my enthusiasm was high. What I got was a car cleaner in some ways, and no different in others. My car is dark blue. It’s a nice car. And yes, it is dark blue… allowing it to show such failings as an automatic car wash in which patches of soap get dried on, rather than rinsed off. When that wind-​tunnel ending to an automatic wash took place at the Lantern, it blew long streams of white soap down the side of my dark blue car, where they dried on. The hood is covered in white poka-​dots of dried soap bubbles.
For my $ 8, I traded a car that was 100% covered in a white film from seasonal highway splash… to a car that is 100% covered in a patchwork of dots and streaks of white film. Oh lucky me!
It has been a few days. I am no less annoyed. I would rather have a spot to soap up a bucket and grab a sponge to fix it myself… I do not have that right now. But what I do know is that the Lantern is not a problem-​solver. The Lantern is a problem-​trader. I’ll take my dirty dark blue car and my $ 8 elsewhere moving forward. Sigh.

I recently ran over a deer carcass with my car on Route 152 coming from the airport. My car smelled like raw meat and it was not going well with me. The smell was actually strong when I turned the heat on to defrost my windshield. I needed to wash my car and this was the place closest to me. The girl working there was nice and showed me which car washes they offered. I didn’t need my interior cleaned so I chose to only wash the outside. The most popular car wash (not including interior service) was the $ 12 wash. I don’t remember the name of it but it was what I needed to get rid of the raw meat smell. It was pretty much a drive-​thru car wash and I thought it did a good job cleaning the under carriage of my car.
I didn’t really mind paying $ 12 because it was better than almost puking while I drove. lol This was the second time I’ve washed my car since I moved here at the beginning of the year. I’ll be back for sure.

A tad on the expensive side, as car washes go, and the polar opposite of «touchless» (lots of brushes and foam fingers), they nevertheless do a great job.
For $ 10 the interior detail is a pretty good bargain for what they do. Just watch out for silly up-​sell services, like $ 5 for .02¢ of tire shine spray.