Car wash locations - nationwide

Great idea;)

Miss Poi

File has been updated and added about 15 more locations. We need locations so if anyone on the Poi-factory site knows of a place just google it and send it my way - I'll geocode it & update the file

Thanks MissPOI for the file assist!

Added the Speedy Car Wash located just South of Point Defiance Park at 50th & pearl.

Self serve

Anyone else out have a location to add?

Nice now we can wash all over

nice idea but Washington is far from NATIONWIDE locations... is there another file that I'm not seeing here??

rustedhalo,

this is a community effort, it takes time to get these files made, please be patient.

Lets keep these divided by state so that people can download them for the state that they need and then when the new system is up we can make a rollup file for it.

We will make it a POI Package.

Miss POI

What is a carwash????? LOL.

My poor baby hasnt had a bath in quite some time.

I'll start compiling the ones I know of in the Twin Cities area in MN. How do I get the info to you?

I have put together some car wash locations in New Jersey. I can upload it if needed.

I would love to get this coded for a Nuvi POI. How can I best get you the list (it is in .XLS)? What Nuvi model(s) can accept this data once you get it coded?

Welcome to the site.

Be sure to click on the getting started and faqs sections linked at the top of each page.

Check out this page to see the proper format for the POI files.

http://www.poi-factory.com/garmin-csv-file-format

Here's the faq page for making POI files.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6664

Here's the faq page for obtaining the coordinates of an address.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/821

The best thing to do is to download a file and take a look at what one looks like.
You can open the CSV files in either Notepad or Microsoft Excel.

Here's a link to helpful software.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6678

I've created a file of car wash locations in SW Washinton, specifically around Vancouver, Wa. area. The addresses and phone numbers are per Google Earth, and have not been cross referenced.

I've coded the names with (A),(S), and (T) per the original post. I've also included non-mobile auto detailing locations, which, in line with the originators code, I've given the prefix (D).

It's about 23 locations I beileve. How do I get them included in the Washington file? Do I just upload it, or should I email it to the original poster?

I wash the 2 cars by hand twice a week.

Of course, we live about 500 ft. from the ocean and the salt gets on the cars pretty good !

for folks who have somewhere to wash their cars, but for us apartment dwellers, it's nice to know where the car washes are.

Most of the gas stations around my area have installed car washes so any listing, even if broken down by city would be virtually impossible to maintain. Even if you limited it to the coin operated washes, the list would still be impossible to keep current.

On my travels across the country, I've never failed to find a car wash where and when needed and I've traveled in 48 of the 50 states.

The automated spinning brush type car washes are fairly easy to find, I'll give you that. And if I drove a mostly-bubble-shaped-generic-looks-like-the-next-one-sedan, I probably wouldn't need a car wash poi file.

However, I don't. The Automated carwash typically won't let me go through their systems. Either because my jeep is so splatterd with mud they don't want me in their bays, or it's the attachments (cargo rack, shovel, axe, jack) I have on my jeep that they are afraid will snag their brushes. Even the times I was able to get into one, I still had to remove my CB antenna so it wouldn't get broken, and because of the boxy shape it didn't really clean it very well anyway. It's hardly worth the trouble.

However trying to find a coin op wash in strange places has been, in my experience, a difficult task. I have a local wash I use faithfully, so I don't need this file either, just trying to create content other might find useful.

nice idea. I like it

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I know that I just use the "Home" favorite when I want the Do-It-Yourself" car wash !

Nixter had a great idea, but it seems that over the past 2 years it never got wings. For those of us who travel far from home, this would be very useful, especially knowing where to find a particular type of wash. But as was mentioned in this thread, trying to maintain such a file with current data on a national basis would be an enormous undertaking that may be used by relatively few.

I would love to have a list of car washes. Has there been any more movement on this project?

Like another poster said those brush spin wash places are pretty easy to find. Almost every gas station has one.
We travel with a truck with wide tow mirrors and I'm always looking for a coin car wash. I would use that file.

The interest level is very low on this type of file. Those that would look for it and use it are very limited.

I guess no one likes clean cars (without all the extra work of doing it themselves). I travel a lot and would love to know where touchless carwashes were located. Those are not as easy to find, in my opinion, especially if you are in an unknown area.

You are volunteering to create the database and maintain it.

You should start with a spreadsheet with the following elements as a minimum:

Type, Address, City, State/Prov, Post Code.

Once you have those you can use Extra Poi Editor to do the geocoding of the addresses and create the CSV and GPX files.

This is a much needed database of POI's. It is winter, the roads are salted, and I'm travelling through this soupy mess. When I pop out of it into warm and non-salt spray, it would be wonderful to have a POI list of Truck and trailer washes. There is one but it only has one brand, "blue Beacon" and last time I used them it was $75 for a pickup and 25 foot trailer. It could be more this year.

So me fellow RV or truckers, if you know of a multi-brand POI list of truck and trailer washes or even just a list with addresses (the lat long can easily be found), please post where. I'll convert addresses to proper GPS poi's for free.

With all the salt, sand and beet juice they use on Ontario roads in winter, the car is just as dirty by the time you get home from the car wash.

It costs me about $ 7.50 to get my car washed, vacuumed inside and cleaned inside. Also the trunk gets vacuumed.
When I get the car back it looks as if it has been detailed. 5-6 guys work on the car for about 45 minutes.

For an extra $ 20.00 they spray the underside with some rust inhibitor too.

Mind you it takes me 4 1/2 days of solid driving and four overnight stops to get to this car wash.

I'm guessing this is a car wash south of Canadian. Mexico, perhaps. LOL

Definitely well south, about 2,500 miles or 4,700 km. About five hours south/east of Puerto Vallarta.
Only about 83°F or 29°C every day, I have to suffer these temps for 3 more months!