Jack’s Shell Service

$ 3 car wash on Tuesdays and wednesdays. The gas prices are decent and there isn’t a wait for the pumps. Attendants are always friendly.

I joined Unilocal for the food. What am I doing reviewing a gas station? Let me tell you a story to explain:
Once upon a time (earlier today) my stepdad thought it would be nice to fill my mom’s car up with gas and take it through the car wash. That’s a classy move for any husband; good job stepdad. Unfortunately it was nearly 100 degrees outside, as Palmdale can get sometimes, and rather than starting the wash off with a refreshing mist of water, the car wash apparently malfunctioned and started off with soap. Now, I haven’t taken a math class in years, but here’s an equation that wasn’t too hard: pink soap+white car+no water+really hot car surface=a pink striped car. The rest of the wash went as planned, but failed to remove the stripes left by the soap.
My stepdad responded as any person would, by going inside and saying something along the lines of «WTF mate?» The cashier responded by writing up an incident report, for which she apparently needed the receipt from the car wash. After completing the report, the cashier stapled the receipt to it and informed my stepdad it was company policy to keep all reports. She refused to make a copy to give him or to at least give back the receipt. Finding this ridiculous, my stepdad asked to speak with a manager. The cashier called up a manager who confirmed that company policy was to deprive complaining customers of some of the best evidence of fault on Shell’s part. Actually, I highly doubt that’s how the manager put it. The manager was nice enough to let my stepdad know that my mom’s damaged car certainly wasn’t worth souring any 4^th of July fun, and that she’d get back to him on the 5^th. Sadly for the hero of our story, when my stepdad returned to his castle, he couldn’t present my mom with a clean, shiny car with a full tank of gas. Instead she has a pink-​striped minivan; I think the only people more dismayed than my mom are my teenaged brothers, who now have to ride in a pink-​striped minivan.
TL;DR– Avoid the car wash; it might leave pink stripes on your car and the lack of customer service will likely leave you fuming (which is very dangerous in a gas station).
Of course, if you were looking to add some pink stripes to your car, you should check it out.

i love the carwash here. gas prices right now are so not great, but i mean its like that everywhere. this is the place i mostly come and pump gas.
the works carwash, actually really does a great job! :)