A self-contained van comes to the car — at the curb, in a lot, or outside your office. It carries its own water and its own power, and it takes the dirty water away with it.
Booked online in under a minute. Nothing charged until the job is done. Consider it done.
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New York works a car over in two directions at once. From the first brine truck in December until the plows stand down in March, salt goes onto the BQE, the Cross Bronx, the FDR and every arterial in the five boroughs, and the spray climbs into rocker panels, subframe seams, brake and fuel lines, and the pocket above each rear wheel. Most cars here sleep outdoors, because a block in Bay Ridge or Astoria simply has no garages, so that brine never gets rinsed off — it cycles wet and dry through every freeze-thaw until something starts to bubble. The interior takes the same salt from the other direction. This is a walking city; you get in with salted boots, and by February the carpet and the rubber mats carry white chloride tide-lines that a vacuum will not touch. Then summer arrives and the same street-parked car sits under London planes and honey locusts, collecting sap and droppings and baking them into the clear coat.
What people drive here is shaped by where they park. Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn run small, and the car is a weekend and errand vehicle that never gets warm enough to dry itself out, so damp gets trapped and stays. Push out to Bayside, Riverdale, Todt Hill or Forest Hills and you find real commuter mileage: the Cross Bronx and the Long Island Expressway at a crawl, which is exactly the condition that bakes brake dust onto wheel faces until it needs chemistry rather than soap, and highway stretches that stipple the front clip with tar and bug strike. Alternate side parking adds its own signature. The car gets moved twice a week and touched almost never, so it accumulates in place — wheel wells fill, door jambs collect grit off the curb, and the lower quarter panels wear a permanent gray band from wet street spray.
That is the case for bringing the wash to the car rather than the car to the wash. Giving up a legal space in Park Slope or Sunnyside to drive to a tunnel wash can cost forty minutes to replace, which is why so many New York cars go a whole season without being touched. A mobile van sidesteps the problem entirely, and it solves two more that are specific to this housing stock: there is usually no accessible outdoor tap on a brownstone or a prewar building, and no outlet to run a cord to. The van carries water and power on board, so it needs neither. Booking is online only, which is also part of the point — no phone queue, no drop-off, no morning lost to a waiting room.
Off the same vans, our senior technicians take dedicated slots for multi-stage paint correction and ceramic coating — at your New York, NY address. This is a separate appointment with its own timeline, for owners who want depth of gloss and years of protection, not a wash.
Booked into premium slots and quoted after a paint assessment. Ask when you book and we assess the paint before quoting.
Put any package on a 2, 4, or 8-week cadence and take 10% off the package price every visit. No membership fee, nothing prepaid. Pause or skip by text, cancel with 24 hours' notice. It's the easiest way to keep a car sorted year-round.
All five boroughs — from Manhattan and the brownstone belts of Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights out to the parts of the city that actually have driveways: Bayside and Forest Hills in Queens, Riverdale in the Bronx, and Todt Hill and the South Shore on Staten Island. Office and surface-lot appointments in Long Island City, Sunnyside and Downtown Brooklyn work the same way, and are often the simplest option because the car sits still all day.
Outside these areas? Run a coverage check — the map grows as we add vans.
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Every package ends with a documented checklist — the crew photographs the result before they leave your driveway. Done means checked, not eyeballed.
If any checklist point isn't right, tell us through your booking and we come back to redo it at no charge. No arguing, no inspection visit first.
Your card is charged when the job is finished and checked, not before — larger bookings take a small deposit, shown before you confirm. That's the whole idea behind the name — consider it done.
Yes. The van comes to where the car is legally parked and works at the curb, carrying its own water and power so nothing is needed from your building. What matters is that the car is still there for the appointment window, so it is worth booking outside your block's posted alternate side hours rather than trying to work around them.
Usually not. A great many Manhattan garages post clearance at or below six feet six inches, and plenty are valet-stacked, which means your car is not sitting in a fixed spot anyway. The practical answer is to have the car brought up to street level or parked outside for the appointment. The van works fine at the curb.
Yes. Under the Car Wash Accountability Law, in effect since 15 January 2018, any business that washes, details, dries, polishes or vacuums vehicles in the city needs a Car Wash license from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, and DCWP guidance states there is no separate mobile category — mobile, on-demand and pop-up services are covered. Check DCWP's current guidance, since licensing requirements are revised from time to time.
It does not go into a catch basin in either sewer geography. The van reclaims all wash water on board and disposes to sanitary sewer. That distinction matters most in the MS4 areas — most of Staten Island, eastern and southern Queens, southern Brooklyn — where street drains run to the harbor untreated.
More often than feels necessary. Salt and brine go down from roughly December through March and a street-parked car never gets a break from it. The useful pattern is a flush during a mid-winter thaw, when the salt has had two months to work and the roads are briefly clear, and a thorough one in spring once the last brine run is off the road — before the residue has a full humid summer to work on the seams.
Yes, provided the car is legally parked and reachable at street level or in an open lot. Surface lots around LIC, Sunnyside and Downtown Brooklyn are usually easier than a residential block, because the car sits still all day rather than being moved for street cleaning.
Live availability across the New York metro area, six days a week (Mon–Sat 8:00–18:00). Booked in under a minute, charged when it's done — any deposit on a larger booking is shown before you confirm.