Trends · data through September 2026

Auto Repair Services in California

Iceflower tracks 3,972 stores from 2,488 auto repair service chains in California. Alioto's Garage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Big Brand Tire & Service and American Tire Depot.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
2,488
Tracked stores
3,972
Consumer panel
130M+

Metro by metro

The leading auto repair service chains in every California metro area

Tracked auto repair service chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. America's Tire leads in 6 metro areas, Les Schwab Tire Center in 6 metro areas, and Big O Tires in 3 metro areas. 10 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in California as a whole, Les Schwab Tire Center stands out in 8 metro areas, Big Brand Tire & Service in 4 metro areas, and Jiffy Lube in 2 metro areas.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: El Centro, CA

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA

Not enough tracked stores: El Centro, CA

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked auto repair service chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to California compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in California as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in California and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of California is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked auto repair service chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Alioto's Garage and Big Brand Tire & Service sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Alioto's Garage ▲1 +19.2%
2 Big Brand Tire & Service - +17.3%
3 American Tire Depot - +8.2%
4 Take 5 Oil Change ▲4 +8.0%
5 Les Schwab Tire Center - +7.7%
6 The Tire Store ▲4 +7.5%
7 Pep Boys - +7.3%
8 Valvoline Express Care ▲1 +5.4%
9 Wheel Works ▲1 +4.7%
10 Grease Monkey - +4.2%
11 G&C Auto Body ▲4 +4.1%
12 SpeeDee Oil Change & Auto Service ▲1 +3.8%
13 Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting ▲5 +3.1%
14 Firestone Complete Auto Care - +1.8%
15 Low Price Auto Glass ▲1 +1.5%
  • America's Tire
  • Jiffy Lube
  • Les Schwab Tire Center
  • Firestone Complete Auto Care
  • Big O Tires
  • American Tire Depot
  • Pep Boys
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,972 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 688 of the 3,972 stores (17%); 2,350 of the 2,488 tracked chains have a single store here. 18% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, the same share as across the United States.

  • America's Tire (112)
  • Jiffy Lube (262)
  • Les Schwab Tire Center (103)
  • Firestone Complete Auto Care (109)
  • Big O Tires (93)
  • American Tire Depot (77)
  • Pep Boys (102)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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