West Elkridge Automotive

True to its name, On the Spot Detailing—in addition to having an actual location—provides mobile detailing. On the Spot dispatches fully equipped teams to various locations to provide quick and professional car-cleaning services. They perform full detailing—removing bugs and tar, degreasing doorjambs, and cleaning up any mummies resting in the trunk—or quick washes with microfiber mitts and streak-defying chamois cloths.

Excessive Detail's car caretakers polish roadsters of all shapes and sizes. When they aren't scouring cars, motorcycles, RVs, and boats, they're repairing windshields, removing dents, and shielding paint jobs with protective films. They also ready vehicle peepers for safer nighttime jaunts by installing HID headlights or purging old lamps of haze for clearer beams, reducing the risk of collisions with families of yield signs trying to cross the street.

Seven cosmetic car-care packages attract soiled vehicles to Performance Window Tinting & Auto Detailing's shop, where dedicated motor maids vacuum, hand-wash, wax, and buff them until they're clean and idling happily. Thanks to the garage's tinting services, drivers can hide their autos' insides from prying eyes once technicians equip windows with SunTek or Hüper Optik films. The vehicle doctors also perform a number of auto-body repairs, patching up hail damage, fixing windshield chips, and nursing black headlights received in fights with bullying mail trucks.

With more than 40 years of combined experience in managing service stations, the Daggle family recognized an opportunity to help the community where others saw only disrepair. After purchasing Columbia Car Wash, the family renovated the property, adding a full-service wash center with a highly efficient 90-foot bay. The Daggles have remained committed to eco-friendly practices, including water and energy conservation and biodegradable cleaning agents. The station is open year-round, relieving exteriors of road salt in the winter, pollen in the spring, and the remnants of cars' Halloween makeup in the fall.

Staffers can put finishing touches, such as a towel dry and tire shine, on the soaking, cleaning, and clear-coat and surface protection performed by the automated bay. In addition to washes and interior and exterior detailing at the wash center, an adjacent tire and auto-care facility offers Maryland state emissions inspecions and a variety of automotive services.

On the Spot Hand Car Wash dispenses its thorough detailing services within state-of-the-art bays as well as from a mobile unit van, which carts car-wash supplies such as waxes and soaps to customers’ locations. The technicians meticulously polish every inch of vehicles of all sizes to create a lustrous shine that attracts envious glances and vain inchworms.

The experts at Pro Wash Auto Spa know that there are certain things that machines can’t handle. For this reason, they scrub each visiting auto by hand, precluding the possibility of damage to the vehicle’s exterior paint finish. Soft microfiber mitts slop on sudsy water, which gentle chamois whisk away. Vacuums purr in cars with freshly installed window tint, which carries a lifetime warranty against bubbling, peeling, or fading. The crew also busily works installing name-brand audio and video equipment, including in-dash DVD and navigation screens that give directions in the voice of Vincent Price’s hairdresser.