Trends · data through September 2026

Vehicle Services in California

Iceflower tracks 2,070 stores from 1,637 vehicle service chains in California. Tires Direct grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cresco Equipment Rentals and Valvoline Instant Oil Change.

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
1,637
Tracked stores
2,070
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked vehicle 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. Tires Direct and Cresco Equipment Rentals sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Tires Direct ▲1 +16.6%
2 Cresco Equipment Rentals - +8.8%
3 Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +8.0%
4 Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change - +4.3%
5 Tony's Tires - +1.6%
6 Express Lube - +1.5%
7 Smog Express ▲1 -0.3%
8 California Smog Inspection - -0.3%
9 U-Haul ▲2 -0.4%
10 Tri-City Smog - -1.0%
11 Smog King ▼1 -1.6%
12 Oil Changers - -2.0%
13 Insta Lube ▼1 -2.8%
14 Discount Tire - -4.6%
15 All Star Rents ▲2 -6.1%
  • Valvoline Instant Oil Change
  • Discount Tire
  • Oil Changers
  • Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change
  • Del Amo Motorsports
  • Audi Miramar
  • Mossy Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,070 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 259 of the 2,070 stores (13%); 1,523 of the 1,637 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are vehicle services, against 6% across the United States.

  • Valvoline Instant Oil Change (153)
  • Discount Tire (40)
  • Oil Changers (39)
  • Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change (16)
  • Del Amo Motorsports (2)
  • Audi Miramar (1)
  • Mossy Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change 153
  • 2 Discount Tire 40
  • 3 Oil Changers 39
  • 4 Oilstop Drive Thru Oil Change 16
  • 5 U-Haul 11
  • 6 All Star Rents 9
  • 7 Smog Express 8
  • 8 California Smog Inspection 6
  • 9 All Star Smog Testing of Walnut Creek 6
  • 10 Cresco Equipment Rentals 6
  • 11 Aaction Rents 6
  • 12 Carroll's Tire Warehouse 5
  • 13 Smog King 5
  • 14 Express Lube 5
  • 15 Tony's Tires 5
  • 16 Tri-City Smog 4
  • 17 The Smog Shop 4
  • 18 Gonzalez Tires 3
  • 19 Olive Tire Shop 3
  • 20 Insta Lube 3
  • 21 California Tire and Wheel 3
  • 22 Tires Direct 3
  • 23 The Smog King 2
  • 24 Smog Star Express 2
  • 25 Affordable Tire 2
  • 26 Diamond Star Auto Glass & Tint 2
  • 27 Used Tire Center 2
  • 28 Superior Tire Inc. 2
  • 29 Tire and Wheel Xperts 2
  • 30 SD Tire Masters 2
  • 31 Tire Man 2
  • 32 Grand American Tire 2
  • 33 Charlie's Automotive 2
  • 34 Bud's Tires 2
  • 35 Del Amo Motorsports 2
  • 36 Power Tires 2
  • 37 Salinas Tires and Wheels 2
  • 38 Sonora Tires 2
  • 39 Firestone Walker 2
  • 40 Daniels Tire Service 2
  • 41 Kalifornia Wheels 2
  • 42 All Pro Smog 2
  • 43 Koritas Tires 2
  • 44 Reg Pros 2
  • 45 Los Amigos Tire Pros 2
  • 46 Edie's Tire Shop 2
  • 47 PK Tire Pros 2
  • 48 Anthony's Tire Store 1
  • 49 Ford of Downtown LA 1
  • 50 Speed A Way Smog 1

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