Trends · data through September 2026

Car Washes in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Iceflower tracks 255 stores from 167 car wash chains in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Grand Prix Auto Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of WhiteWater Express Car Wash and Marco's Car Wash.

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
167
Tracked stores
255
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car wash 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. Grand Prix Auto Wash and WhiteWater Express Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Grand Prix Auto Wash ▲1 +18.3%
2 WhiteWater Express Car Wash - +11.4%
3 Marco's Car Wash ▲2 +10.1%
4 Cal's Auto Wash ▲2 +6.0%
5 Mr C's Carwash - -4.6%
6 Wash Pointe Car Wash ▲1 -13.3%
7 Clearwave Car Wash - -15.8%
8 Fast Splash Car Wash ▲1 -18.3%
9 Super Car Wash - -19.0%
10 Zax Auto Wash - -31.7%
11 U Wash ▼1 -53.7%
12 Ace Auto Wash ▼5 -84.8%
13 Clean View Auto Wash ▼1 -100.0%
  • Jax Kar Wash
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash
  • Mr C's Carwash
  • Clean Express Auto Wash
  • Clearwave Car Wash
  • Zax Auto Wash
  • Grand Prix Auto Wash
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

255 tracked store locations in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 54 of the 255 stores (21%); 141 of the 167 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 7% across Michigan.

  • Jax Kar Wash (22)
  • WhiteWater Express Car Wash (8)
  • Mr C's Carwash (5)
  • Clean Express Auto Wash (8)
  • Clearwave Car Wash (3)
  • Zax Auto Wash (8)
  • Grand Prix Auto Wash (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Jax Kar Wash 22
  • 2 WhiteWater Express Car Wash 8
  • 3 Clean Express Auto Wash 8
  • 4 Zax Auto Wash 8
  • 5 Fast Splash Car Wash 8
  • 6 Mr C's Carwash 5
  • 7 U Wash 4
  • 8 Marco's Car Wash 4
  • 9 Clean View Auto Wash 4
  • 10 Ace Auto Wash 4
  • 11 Grand Prix Auto Wash 4
  • 12 Wash Pointe Car Wash 3
  • 13 Super Car Wash 3
  • 14 Tommy's Express Car Wash 3
  • 15 Cal's Auto Wash 3
  • 16 Clearwave Car Wash 3
  • 17 Quality Car Wash 2
  • 18 Kelly Car Wash 2
  • 19 United Car Wash 2
  • 20 Rainbow Auto Wash 2
  • 21 Paul's Auto Wash 2
  • 22 Magical Touch Car Wash 2
  • 23 Mister Car Wash 2
  • 24 Quick Pass Car Wash 2
  • 25 Water Works Car Wash 2
  • 26 Wash Me Car Wash 2
  • 27 Metro Auto Wash 1
  • 28 Your Car Wash 1
  • 29 New Pal Car Wash 1
  • 30 Parkway Auto Wash 1
  • 31 The Works Auto Wash 1
  • 32 Downtown Auto Wash 1
  • 33 Hall Rd $1.99 Express Car Wash 1
  • 34 Thomsons Choo Choo Car Wash 1
  • 35 Chuck's Auto Wash 1
  • 36 Futuristic Car Wash 1
  • 37 H2O Car & Dog Wash 1
  • 38 Sunrise High Performance Car Wash 1
  • 39 Mr T's Auto Wash 1
  • 40 House Of Wax Detailing and Carwash 1
  • 41 Northline Wash N Go 1
  • 42 Enthusiast Auto Wash 1
  • 43 Van Born Car Wash 1
  • 44 ScrubHub Car Wash 1
  • 45 Forster Auto Wash 1
  • 46 The Wash Tub 1
  • 47 Pops Original Carwash 1
  • 48 Luxury Auto Spa 1
  • 49 Super Wash 1
  • 50 Tony's Car Wash 1

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