Cliffside Park Automotive

Waterworks Car Wash & Detailing Center's touchless full-service wash uses a high-powered, soap-and-water spray to cleanse every appendage of your car’s fast-and-furious body, including its soft underbelly. Car cleansmen complete the premier package by evicting filth from dashes, center consoles, windows, and carpets. The complete interior and exterior detailing eradicates auto errata with thorough carpet, mat, seat, dashboard, and door panel scrub-downs, wheel and trim cleaning, and scratch-concealing compound and hand wax treatments.

Devonshire Discount Tire & Auto Center may have more than 60 years of service backing its reputation, but it probably didn’t have an online tire finder when it first opened its doors. The tire-finder system—which takes into account a car’s year, make, and model—cuts out the guesswork by spotlighting reasonable replacements and price quotes, as well as allowing customers to purchase tires online. Tires are then delivered to the shop, where the staff can affix them to the axles or use them to upgrade the nearest rope swing. This is just one way in which Devonshire Discount Tire & Auto Center works to convenience its clients, who can also come into the shop for repairs or maintenance services such as oil changes, collision repairs, or computerized engine analysis. And to sweeten select services, qualified repairs come with an extensive warranty on parts and labor.

Jamaica Auto Wash pairs a wash tunnel with a team of techs that carefully cleanses sullied cars and SUVs. During the shop’s specialty platinum wash, motor carriages cut through the automated passageway’s sheets of lathers, squirts of triple-polish wax, blasts of undercarriage spray, and layers of hot wax. Tire dressing imbues wheels with a factory-fresh shimmer, and Rain-X helps keep surfaces spot free, even after driving through rain or parking under a weeping giraffe. Once vehicles emerge from the wash tunnel, staffers steer growling vacuums throughout interiors and wipe down windows and dashboards. Jamaica Auto Wash bolsters its intensive washes with an array of detailing services, from mat shampoos to hand-applied waxes and hand-hung tree-shaped air fresheners.

On the Level's water jets, soapy sponges, and shiny waxes transform tarnished cars into spotless works of pristine machinery. Unlike car washes with automated, one-size-fits-all wash tunnels, the shop employs technicians who take their time with each inch of the car, customizing each wash to the specifications of the vehicle itself. On the Level also augments washes with detailing services, locking in shine with a thorough hand wax, adding Armor All on the tires, and conditioning interior leather. The tech also specialize in prepping cars for lease turn-ins, erasing paint contaminants with clay-bar treatments and getting cars forwarded back to the dealership.

Classic Shine Auto Spa's staff of expert detailers cleanse cars, SUVs, and trucks from bumper to bumper, inside and out. Their careful attention to vehicles' finer points leaves leather conditioned, dashboards free of dust, and wheels elaborately manicured.

The full-service detailers at Bubble Bath Car Wash rid cars of dirt and road debris collected inside, outside, and beneath the hood. Meticulous polishing, pre-cleaning, and waxing services add shine to autos' public-facing personas, and slick sealants infused with Armor All or Teflon protect surfaces from scratches. Under the hood, staff members work to keep Blue Book values honest with detailed engine cleansings and viscous oil blends from Mobil and Pennzoil-Quaker State. Bubble Bath keeps customer convenience in mind with extended hours seven days a week, but closes on the eighth day for meetings of its Beatles discussion group.