REVIEW: Fleet Farm car wash
★ ★ out of 5
Made a stop Friday evening at the Mason City Fleet Farm car wash (3200 4th Street SW) to wash a little dirt off the SUV. It’s got a nice central location on the busiest road in town, and it was a convenience stop for me. The pay station that greets you as you drive up to the wash is astonishingly annoying. The screen shows a woman with a child; kind of a computer-animated guide to getting you started. She talks very loud and won’t shut up. The directions just to pay are hard to follow as the woman blares her voice in your face; my son, who was with me, thought it was pretty hilarious as I yelled back at the women to shut her pie hole so I wold pay already. There are several options to choose from; I chose the basic $6.00 wash since my ride wasn’t all that dirty. All this distraction of trying to pay and tune out the psychopath on the computer screen was enough to divert my attention from the trash heap I drove my vehicle into. By the time I paid for my car wash and drove in, I happened to the dozens of pop bottles, papers, junk, debris and other assorted garbage all over the concrete surface inside the car wash. Once inside, all I could do is go through with the wash.
I got one of the soft-touch washes, with the brushes and rubbery/plastic flaps that pummel the vehicle. I chose that wash to get some dried-on bugs off the front of my SUV. The wash did pretty well. It got most of the bugs off and did a pretty decent job of leaving the car clean. The rinse and spotless-liquid application did well. The next big problem came, however, as I tried to leave the car wash. The large door at he exit closes and a huge dryer descends from the ceiling to blow the water off the vehicle. However, the door did not go up once the dryer shut off. So, I had to order my son out of the SUV to push a button just to make the door go up. It was then that I notices some of the drenched trash paper that had landed on my car during the wash. We removed that debris and looked back at the inside of the wash. What a disgusting mess.
A drive back by the wash Sunday evening showed that the bay that I had used seemed to have been “picked up” probably by employees of Fleet Farm.
I give a 2-star rating only because my SUV was decently clean for six bucks, but this could have easily been a one-star rating.
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Your not really all that bright are you?
Any business in this town that caters to the public, be it a car wash, restaurant, or even wal mart, will be left filthy by the slobs that live here. Case in point, I was at a restaurant recently, that had restrooms for it’s costumers. I overheard an employee say that the womens bathroom toilet had been plugged up, by a sanitary napkin, aka kotex. They had to call a plumber to get it open. I wondered if the slob did that at home. Another restaurant that tried to make it’s restrooms look nice, put whimsical signs on the walls for customers to read. Someone stole the sign out of the mens restroom.
Stay tuned…. the next review will feature the toilet paper in the men’s room at Wally World.
Heh, yelling at the video….. There’s a rocket scientist. EPIC. $6.00 — wow, buy your own bucket and brush next time. You have a kid, pay him $3 to do it.
How were you so distracted that you failed to notice the prominent “PRESS TO SKIP” button at the beginning of the woman’s video sales pitch?
He’s autistic, what do you expect?
Wow, these are the problems that face America.
Worst carwash in town…. I cannot get my car into those designated lane thingys.. a pain in the arse. Westside is the best– behind Carlos O’Kelleys
what do you drive?
I would never run our car through a car wash with brushes. The brushes pick up sand and rocks and will scratch your paint job. I would rather run it through the touchless wash twice.
friend ran his vehicle thru the brushes and it scratched the paint on his hood and roof, fleet farm paid for repainting, but then who wants a repainted vehicle. never as good as original
Glad you like this new feature.
Matt Marquardt – Autism Alert
Matt knows you have Autism, but don’t worry, he won’t bring it up.
I love this addition to the site!!!!!