USA: Surf Thru opens a carwash in California

This is the 21st location for the company in the U.S.

A new Surf Thru Express Car Wash has opened its doors in Pleasanton nearly two years after the city’s planning commission approved the design and conditional use permit for a car wash on Stanley Boulevard.

Operating under the name Sail Thru Express Car Wash, the centre touts itself as an environmentally friendly and fast car wash that offers a hybrid between do-it-yourself and full service. Customers pull in, pay, then drive into a tunnel where vehicles are automatically washed, waxed and dried. Afterward, customers can self-vacuum their vehicles.

The approvals to construct and operate the semi-automated car wash and related site improvements were approved by Pleasanton’s planning commission in February 2018.