Palm Springs Automotive

A 125-foot automatic wash tunnel is the bread and butter at each of Motor City Car Wash’s three locations. The system, which uses light-touch soft cloths and 60% recycled and filtered water, effectively cleans cars from roof to underbelly without damaging the paint. Drivers can choose one of four car-wash packages, such as the Basic—a wash, power dry, and hand finish—or the Works, complete with an exterior dressing and a Rain-X windshield treatment. After rolling through the tunnel, cars can pull up to a uniformed technician to be lavished with praise for their new and shiny look, or to be detailed with Meguiar's products. Motor City backs all of its services with a 48-hour re-wash policy.

At more than a dozen nationwide locations, Tint World protects and perfects automotive transports with a combination of technology and old-fashioned elbow grease. The shop’s signature auto-tinting services use computer systems to digitally generate and cut window tints that fit each vehicle’s exact specifications. Technicians also install a gamut of in-car entertainment systems, lavish seats with Katzkin leather interior packages, and foil break-ins with security systems from reliable brands such as Viper and Clifford. When not hand washing and waxing chariots, Tint World’s technicians extend their services to residential and commercial windows in need of tinting as well as marine-based transports such as boats, yachts, and narwhals.

Magic Bubbles' technicians arrive on location equipped with cleaning supplies that transform dusty cars into sparkling rides and smudged windows into streak-free panes of glass. During auto details, agile hands clear away surface dirt, clarify grimy portholes, and treat tires to erase evidence of a late night spent doing donuts through the governor's rose bushes. Technicians also lavish exotic and luxury cars with specially formulated waxes, buff boats, and comfort motorcycles with spray bottles of slime-busting, non-tarnishing solvents. Magic Bubbles also washes home windows and pressure cleans siding, roofs, and patios to remove mildew, rust, and mold.

Drawing on half a century of automotive service, Midas helps drivers to prolong vehicle vigor with factory-recommended maintenance services. Mechanics pop car hoods to perform oil changes with standard and temperature-durable synthetic solutions, taking time to inspect belts, hoses, fluids, and the air conditioner's resident penguin. Armed with efficient catalytic converters built to EPA standards, the staff helps to shrink harmful emissions during muffler and exhaust-system checks. Trained technicians augment brake services with lifetime guarantees and curate healthy, evenly worn tires with rotations or replacements from Goodyear, Michelin, Firestone, and Bridgestone.

Wax on Wheels’ licensed and insured detailing crew totes its own water and power systems door-to-door to deliver top-notch detailing treatments with ease and convenience. The team rids exteriors of stubborn dirt and grime with hand washes and waxes, and tackles indoor debris by diligently vacuuming carpets, wiping down upholstery, and kicking out messy carpoolers for good. It restores vehicles to a like-new shine through and through, from the basics, such as cleaning and dressing tires, to the minutia of polishing doorjambs, tailpipes, and gas caps. The mobile shop also treats autos to specialty services, such as steam-cleaning interiors and buffing away scratches, swirls, and scuff marks.:m]]

Autobahn-USA is where the world's major highways come to shop for cars. Whether autobahn, interstate, or kosoku-doro, these roads can find the perfect roadster in a stash that includes BMWs, Mini Coopers, Chevys, Fords, Nissans, and even Campagna T-Rexes. The sales staff does its part by doling out facts and figures on each model in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Proto-Chilton.

Certified technicians hold court in Autobahn-USA's service center. Since breaking ties with their Magic 8 Pistons, they've teamed up with savvy diagnostics systems to pinpoint automotive problems and find solutions for down-and-out transmissions, weary brakes, and busted radiators. They make things easy by ferrying local cars from their driveways to the shop; during lengthy repair sessions, they'll offer to hook up patrons with rental cars. The shop's detailing is eco-friendly, which illustrates the mechanics' desire to keep roads filled with cars that aren't just healthy and happy, but clean as well.