A self-contained van comes to your block in the Sunset, the Mission or Potrero. No driveway required and no garage needed — it brings its own water and power, and it takes the dirty water away rather than putting it in a catch basin.
Booked online in under a minute. Nothing charged until the job is done. Consider it done.
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San Francisco does not rust cars the way a salt-belt city does; it corrodes them slowly and quietly instead. On the west side — the Outer Sunset, the Richmond, Sea Cliff, out toward Lands End — the fog rolls in carrying salt off the Pacific and it does not burn off, so a car parked outdoors is damp for most of the day for most of the year. Brake rotors on a car that has sat for a week come up orange. Chrome and polished trim pit. Window seals and the rubber around a roof rack grow a green film that is algae, not dirt. Nothing dries: an interior that got wet in November is still faintly musty in January, and the smell lives in the carpet backing and the seat foam, not in the air. On the east side the problem inverts — Bernal, the Mission and Potrero get real sun and real heat, and the dry stretch from May to October lets a fine grit build on the paint that turns to a mud slurry in the first serious rain. And every hill in this city is a brake-dust generator.
The operational reality of San Francisco is that most cars have nowhere to be worked on. Garages are the exception, not the rule. Victorians and Edwardians in Noe Valley, the Castro and the Richmond often have a single tandem garage behind a low door that a service van cannot enter and frequently cannot even park in front of without blocking the curb cut. Towers in SoMa, Mission Bay and Rincon Hill have structured parking with a clearance bar well under seven feet. That leaves the street, and the street in San Francisco is governed by three things at once: the posted street-cleaning window, which on many blocks comes twice a week and which SFMTA enforces without much sentiment; the residential parking permit zone; and the grade, because a car on a Russian Hill or Corona Heights block has to be curbed and a work area has to be level enough to be safe. The practical answer is that the booking gets matched to a legal, level spot near the car, and the sweeping schedule for that specific block is the first thing to look at.
There is one question San Francisco residents ask that almost nobody else does, and it is a good one: where does the water go? San Francisco is the only coastal city in California with a combined sewer system, so on most blocks the catch basin at the corner carries rain to the same treatment plant your kitchen sink drains to. But not everywhere — the SFPUC identifies newer separate storm drain areas including Mission Bay, Treasure Island, the Embarcadero, India Basin, Candlestick Point, Aquatic Park, Lake Merced, Ocean Beach and Sea Cliff, and in those zones what goes in the drain goes to the bay or the ocean untreated. The van does not depend on knowing which zone you are in. It captures every drop of wash water, holds it in a reclaim tank and disposes of it to sanitary sewer. The other half of why this service exists here is that plenty of San Francisco cars barely move — they sit on the street for a week between uses, which is precisely the condition that grows mildew inside and rust on rotors outside. Booking is online only.
Off the same vans, our senior technicians take dedicated slots for multi-stage paint correction and ceramic coating — at your San Francisco, CA 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.
Mobile detailing across San Francisco — the Sunset and the Richmond, the Mission, Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, the Marina, Pacific Heights, SoMa, Glen Park and the Excelsior. Elsewhere in the Bay Area the van reaches the near Peninsula down 101 and 280 and the northern approaches over the Golden Gate.
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.
It sets the window rather than blocking it. San Francisco posts sweeping block by block, and on many blocks twice a week, so the appointment is scheduled outside your posted hours or at a legal spot within a short walk of the car. Note the posted signage when you book online and it gets planned around — SFMTA enforcement here is not forgiving and neither of us wants a ticket.
Yes. There is no road salt in San Francisco, but the west-side fog carries marine salt and it does not burn off, so a car parked outdoors in the Sunset, the Richmond or Sea Cliff sits damp for most of the day. Rotor surface rust on a car that has not moved in a week is normal here and mostly wipes off on the first few stops. The corrosion that matters is on trim, fasteners and inside door bottoms, and that is what a proper decontamination and protection cycle addresses.
The van will not fit inside — no service van will. The work happens outside, at a legal spot next to wherever the car can be brought out to. The van is fully self-contained, so it needs no outlet or hose from your building. The only real requirement is a spot flat enough to work safely, which on a steep block sometimes means a few doors up the hill.
It is, and it is a common one in this city. Tempered glass shatters into thousands of small cubes that migrate into seat rails, seat-belt channels, the parcel shelf, door card cavities and deep into carpet pile — a shop vacuum removes the visible half. Proper removal means pulling seats or at least working the rails and channels, and it takes considerably longer than an ordinary interior. Flag it when you book so the time is allocated.
No — most of our San Francisco customers will not have one. The van carries its own water and its own power, so it does not need your building's hose bib or an outdoor outlet. What it needs is a legal, reasonably level parking spot near your car, outside the posted street-cleaning window.
On most blocks, yes — SFPUC describes San Francisco as the only coastal city in California with a combined sewer system, so the corner catch basin usually carries rain to a treatment plant. But not everywhere: the SFPUC identifies separate storm drain areas including Mission Bay, Treasure Island, the Embarcadero, India Basin, Candlestick Point, Aquatic Park, Lake Merced, Ocean Beach and Sea Cliff, where drains go to the bay or ocean untreated. The van does not rely on knowing which zone your block is in. It reclaims every drop into an onboard tank and disposes of it to sanitary sewer.
Live availability across the Bay 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.