Trends · data through September 2026

Auto Repair Services in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 2,229 stores from 1,521 auto repair service chains in North Carolina. Take 5 Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change and Mavis Discount Tire.

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
1,521
Tracked stores
2,229
Consumer panel
130M+

Metro by metro

The leading auto repair service chains in every North Carolina metro area

Tracked auto repair service chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Mavis Discount Tire leads in 7 metro areas, Black's Tire & Auto Service in 2 metro areas, and Firestone Complete Auto Care in 1 metro area. 9 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in North Carolina as a whole, Mavis Discount Tire stands out in 3 metro areas, Black's Tire & Auto Service in 2 metro areas, and Jiffy Lube in 2 metro areas.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Asheville, NC · Goldsboro, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked auto repair service chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to North Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in North Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in North Carolina 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 North Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in North Carolina. 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. Take 5 Oil Change and Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Take 5 Oil Change ▲2 +14.7%
2 Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change ▲1 +14.1%
3 Mavis Discount Tire - +13.4%
4 Chapel Hill Tire ▲1 +12.0%
5 Pete Smith Tire & Quick Lube - +9.1%
6 Meineke Car Care Center ▲1 +8.5%
7 Grease Monkey ▲1 +7.6%
8 Firestone Complete Auto Care - +4.7%
9 RNR Tire Express ▲2 +4.4%
10 Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting - +3.7%
11 Just Tires ▼1 +3.1%
12 Black's Tire & Auto Service ▼1 +2.3%
13 SpeeDee Oil Change & Auto Service - +2.2%
14 Caliber Collision - +2.0%
15 Precision Tune Auto Care ▲1 +0.9%
  • Mavis Discount Tire
  • Firestone Complete Auto Care
  • Take 5 Oil Change
  • Black's Tire & Auto Service
  • Jiffy Lube
  • Caliber Collision
  • Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,229 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 308 of the 2,229 stores (14%); 1,444 of the 1,521 tracked chains have a single store here. 22% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, against 18% across the United States.

  • Mavis Discount Tire (62)
  • Firestone Complete Auto Care (59)
  • Take 5 Oil Change (28)
  • Black's Tire & Auto Service (44)
  • Jiffy Lube (67)
  • Caliber Collision (53)
  • Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change (67)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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