Coastal Carolina Car Wash
Coastal Carolina Car Wash runs 12 in-bay automatic sites across 1 US state. Across 1,297 Google reviews, the chain carries a weighted 3.61★ rating and a 3.0% reviewer-reported damage rate.
Data updated · September 26, 2026
Key findings
- 12 in-bay automatic locations across 1 US state (largest footprint in North Carolina).
- 3.61★ weighted rating across 1,297 customer reviews; damage rate 3.0%.
- Built from 135 AI-extracted Google reviews scored across 55 dimensions.
12 locations across 1 states · dot size scales with review volume
Coastal Carolina Car Wash runs as a mid-shape chain operator — neither a quality outlier nor a friction outlier in the WashIndex chain-category dataset. 12 in-bay automatic sites; concentrated in North Carolina (12). Rating 3.61★ chain-wide. The aspect grid and per-location detail below carry the more distinctive cuts.
Equipment reliability runs as the most-cited friction (-0.72). Per-location detail shows the within-chain variance behind these chain-wide averages.
About Coastal Carolina Car Wash
How many locations does Coastal Carolina Car Wash have?
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What is the average customer rating at Coastal Carolina Car Wash?
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What is Coastal Carolina Car Wash's damage rate?
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What format of car wash is Coastal Carolina Car Wash?
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What are common complaints about Coastal Carolina Car Wash?
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Where does Coastal Carolina Car Wash have the most locations?
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How have Coastal Carolina Car Wash ratings and review volume trended over time?
Monthly review velocity and average-rating trends for Coastal Carolina Car Wash's 12-location footprint, spanning 30 months (2024-01 → 2026-06). Peak monthly volume: 13 reviews in 2026-05.
Monthly review volume
30 monthsAverage star rating by month
scale 1–5What customers love about Coastal Carolina Car Wash
No strongly-positive aspect signals.
Where customers complain about Coastal Carolina Car Wash
- Equipment Working
- -0.72
- Per-Wash Price
- -0.65
- Wash Quality
- -0.56
- Staff
- -0.16
Aspect score = (pos − neg) / (pos + neg + mixed), range −1 to +1. See per-pillar leaderboards →
Operational health signals
Industry averages are review-weighted across the WashIndex chain dataset (cancellation friction over chains with 200+ membership-discussing reviews, matching the leaderboard). Lower is better for damage, cancellation friction, and upsell pressure; membership mention rate reflects program engagement. Better/worse calls appear only for chains above the leaderboards’ minimum sample sizes.
How much competition does Coastal Carolina Car Wash face at each site?
Coastal Carolina Car Wash sites operate against an average of 5.6 car washes within 1 mile and 18.3 within 3. The cards below show per-ring averages and medians; the per-location table shows the variance across sites.
Per-site competitor counts use haversine distance against the WashIndex location index; sister sites in the same chain are excluded.
What amenities do customers mention at Coastal Carolina Car Wash?
Customer-mentioned amenities at Coastal Carolina Car Wash. Reading the mention rates gives a sense of what features the operator emphasizes vs. what customers actually notice.
Which metros and cities does Coastal Carolina Car Wash have locations in?
Coastal Carolina Car Wash operates across the metros and cities below. Each link drills into the WashIndex per-metro or per-city market analysis, with Coastal Carolina Car Wash's position alongside every other operator.
Alternatives to Coastal Carolina Car Wash
The chains that compete with it most directly, compared.
Which states does Coastal Carolina Car Wash operate in?
Coastal Carolina Car Wash's operating footprint covers 12 locations across 1 state; concentrated in North Carolina (12). The per-state breakdown shows where the customer-review weight concentrates.
| State | Locations | Total Reviews | Avg Rating |
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| North Carolina | 12 | 1,297 | 3.61 |
What are the top Coastal Carolina Car Wash locations by review volume?
Per-location detail with the site's own rating, damage signal, mem-cancellation friction, and competitor counts. Within-chain variance is usually wider than the chain-wide aggregates suggest.
3.8 195 reviews 10 / 39 / 75
Trade-Area Competitors
- Tint World 0.16 mi · 5.0★
- Cruisers Car Wash Express 0.65 mi · 3.6★
- High Tide Detailing LLC 0.70 mi · 5.0★
- Gurgainous Mobile Detailing 0.70 mi · 5.0★
- All About Dents ILM 0.72 mi · 4.6★
Operational Signals
- Wash Quality -1.00
- Per-Wash Price -0.75
- Equipment Working -0.50
- Facility Cleanliness +0.33
Monthly Review Velocity
3.8 188 reviews 9 / 83 / 30
Trade-Area Competitors
- Whistle Express Car Wash 0.18 mi · 4.3★
- The Wash Factory 0.18 mi
- Diamond Detailing 0.27 mi · 5.0★
- Corvettes and Camaros 0.43 mi · 5.0★
- Neil Smith Paint & Body Shop, Inc. 0.47 mi · 4.9★
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -1.00
- Wait Time -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness +1.00
- Staff -0.33
Monthly Review Velocity
Carolina Beach, NC 1200 N Lake Park Blvd 3.8 164 reviews 2 / 5 / 5
Trade-Area Competitors
- CB Detailing Boats and Vehicles 0.40 mi · 5.0★
- Jack's Coastal Auto Detailing 0.58 mi · 5.0★
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -1.00
- Equipment Working -0.71
- Staff +0.50
- Wash Quality -0.43
Monthly Review Velocity
Surf City, NC 13912 NC-50 3.5 154 reviews 2 / 2 / 9
Trade-Area Competitors
- Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 0.63 mi · 4.7★
- DUN-RITE DETAILING 0.87 mi · 5.0★
Operational Signals
- Wash Quality -1.00
- Staff -1.00
- Equipment Working -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness -1.00
Monthly Review Velocity
Leland, NC 411 Village Rd NE 3.9 139 reviews 1 / 5 / 25
Trade-Area Competitors
- Lavish Mobile Detail 0.35 mi · 5.0★
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -0.67
- Facility Cleanliness +0.50
- Equipment Working -0.45
- Wash Quality -0.44
Monthly Review Velocity
Castle Hayne, NC 6100 Castle Hayne Rd 3.6 117 reviews 1 / 1 / 2
Trade-Area Competitors
- Ty’s detailing 0.96 mi
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -1.00
- Staff -1.00
- Wash Quality -0.60
- Equipment Working -0.60
Monthly Review Velocity
3.1 79 reviews 0 / 7 / 50
Trade-Area Competitors
Operational Signals
- Equipment Working -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness +1.00
- Per-Wash Price -0.60
- Wash Quality -0.50
Monthly Review Velocity
Sneads Ferry, NC 1034 NC-210 3.2 78 reviews 1 / 3 / 1
Trade-Area Competitors
- Self service car wash 0.93 mi · 4.4★
Operational Signals
- Equipment Working -1.00
- Wash Quality -0.60
- Per-Wash Price -0.43
- Staff -0.33
Monthly Review Velocity
3.7 54 reviews 33 / 35 / 69
Trade-Area Competitors
- Great Polish 0.13 mi
- Blue Tide Mobile Detailing 0.26 mi · 5.0★
- King Tide Marine and Auto Detailing 0.40 mi · 5.0★
- Gloss Labs Wilmington 0.44 mi · 5.0★
- H2 Turbo Express Car Wash 0.47 mi · 4.4★
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -1.00
- Wash Quality -1.00
- Staff +1.00
- Equipment Working -1.00
Monthly Review Velocity
Burgaw, NC 109 US-117 3.3 47 reviews 0 / 2 / 0
Trade-Area Competitors
Operational Signals
- Wait Time +1.00
- Staff +1.00
- Equipment Working -1.00
- Membership Value +1.00
Monthly Review Velocity
Data as of 2026-09-26. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, September 26). Coastal Carolina Car Wash — WashIndex operator profile. https://washindex.com/car-wash-chains/coastal-carolina-car-wash
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Every operating-quality signal on this page is derived from 135 customer reviews of Coastal Carolina Car Wash locations, processed through WashIndex’s 55-field LLM extraction pipeline. Competitor counts within 1 / 3 / 5 mi rings are computed by haversine distance against the WashIndex location index across the chain’s states and immediately adjacent ones (sister sites in the same chain are excluded). Monthly review and rating trends are pulled from the raw Google Maps review feed. 0 spam-flagged reviews were excluded from the aggregates.
See our full methodology for the extraction pipeline, validation samples, and aggregation logic. Term definitions in the glossary.
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