Rub A Dub Car Wash
Rub A Dub Car Wash is a 4-location self-serve bay chain operating across 1 US state. Its weighted Google rating has slipped from 2.86★ to 1.75★ since 2025-12, a sustained decline measurable across 54 AI-extracted reviews.
Data updated · May 24, 2026
Key findings
- 4 self-serve bay locations across 1 US state (largest footprint in Texas).
- Weighted rating drifted from 2.86★ to 1.75★ starting 2025-12 — a sustained chain-wide decline.
- Built from 54 AI-extracted Google reviews scored across 55 dimensions.
4 locations across 1 states · dot size scales with review volume
Review-time analysis flags Rub A Dub Car Wash as showing an active rating drift. Rating fell from 2.86★ to 1.75★ starting 2025-12, with vehicle damage the leading complaint theme during the window. Read the monthly velocity chart alongside the rating chart — the two together usually reveal whether the drift is a quality story or a customer-mix story.
The full review corpus (624) and the AI-scored subset (54) together drive the per-aspect signal.
About Rub A Dub Car Wash
How many locations does Rub A Dub Car Wash have?
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What is the average customer rating at Rub A Dub Car Wash?
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What format of car wash is Rub A Dub Car Wash?
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Where does Rub A Dub Car Wash have the most locations?
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How have Rub A Dub Car Wash ratings and review volume trended over time?
25 months of monthly review velocity and rating data underpin the drift detection. Peak review volume: 7 reviews in 2025-10. The rating line below makes the inflection point easy to spot — the volume bars show whether customer flow tracked with the quality shift.
Monthly review volume
25 monthsAverage star rating by month
scale 1–5What customers love about Rub A Dub Car Wash
No strongly-positive aspect signals.
Where customers complain about Rub A Dub Car Wash
- Equipment Working
- -0.71
Aspect score = (pos − neg) / (pos + neg + mixed), range −1 to +1. See per-pillar leaderboards →
Operational health signals
How much competition does Rub A Dub Car Wash face at each site?
Trade-area competitive density at Rub A Dub Car Wash sites averages 5.5 car washes within 1 mile and 30.0 within 3. In a drift scenario, dense competitive sets accelerate customer-switching when quality slips.
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 Rub A Dub Car Wash?
Customer-mentioned amenities at Rub A Dub Car Wash; the percentages show how often each amenity comes up in reviews. Drift periods tend to surface specific amenity complaints (broken vacuums, missing dryers).
Which metros and cities does Rub A Dub Car Wash have locations in?
Rub A Dub Car Wash operates across the metros and cities below. Each link drills into the WashIndex per-metro or per-city market analysis, with Rub A Dub Car Wash's position alongside every other operator.
Which states does Rub A Dub Car Wash operate in?
1 state; concentrated in Texas (4). Useful context for the drift — whether the rating drop is happening everywhere or concentrated in specific markets.
| State | Locations | Total Reviews | Avg Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 4 | 624 | 3.51 |
What are the top Rub A Dub Car Wash locations by review volume?
All 4 Rub A Dub Car Wash locations below. Expand any row for the site's monthly velocity, competitor rings, and aspect-level signals — useful for attributing the drift.
Lake Worth, TX 6739 Lake Worth Blvd 3.4 266 reviews 2 / 16 / 38
Trade-Area Competitors
- Soapy Jeff's Car Wash & Oil Change 0.69 mi · 4.0★
- Zips Car Wash 0.85 mi · 4.3★
Operational Signals
- Wait Time -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness +1.00
- Per-Wash Price -0.78
- Equipment Working -0.56
Monthly Review Velocity
3.7 170 reviews 10 / 29 / 59
Trade-Area Competitors
- Caliber Car Wash 0.45 mi · 4.7★
- First Place Car Wash 0.62 mi · 4.5★
- Suarez Hand Wash 0.69 mi · 4.9★
- Superior Service 0.71 mi · 5.0★
- Slick’s Auto Detailing 0.71 mi
Operational Signals
- Staff -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness -1.00
- Equipment Working -0.64
- Wash Quality -0.60
Monthly Review Velocity
3.4 106 reviews 4 / 43 / 66
Trade-Area Competitors
- Texaco Car Wash 0.21 mi · 3.8★
- Shine Express Car Wash 0.60 mi · 3.7★
- Platinum Mobile Car Detailing of Fairmount 0.67 mi
- Car wash 0.87 mi · 2.6★
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price -1.00
- Wait Time -1.00
- Wash Quality -1.00
- Equipment Working -0.83
Monthly Review Velocity
3.6 82 reviews 6 / 32 / 43
Trade-Area Competitors
- Platinum Mobile Car Detailing of Western HIlls 0.25 mi
- BeansThtClean 0.32 mi
- Trico Car Wash 0.38 mi · 4.8★
- Real Deal Detailing DFW 0.38 mi
- Granbury Detailing 0.38 mi
Operational Signals
- Per-Wash Price +1.00
- Wash Quality -1.00
- Equipment Working -1.00
- Facility Cleanliness -1.00
Monthly Review Velocity
Data as of 2026-05-24. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 24). Rub A Dub Car Wash — WashIndex operator profile. https://washindex.com/car-wash-chains/rub-a-dub-car-wash
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Every operating-quality signal on this page is derived from 54 customer reviews of Rub A Dub 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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