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Blue Wave Car Wash

Blue Wave Car Wash

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Blue Wave Car Wash Overview

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Rating Distribution

Blue Wave Car Wash reviews show a 1.8 star rating from 5 reviews with mostly dissatisfied customers; price level is high and consumers report location and reliability issues.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect reports of vehicle damage from the automatic car wash.
  • Be cautious with membership signups and monitor billing.
  • Prepare for slow or unresponsive customer service when seeking refunds.
  • Attendant attitudes and manager behavior are recurring concerns.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Frequent complaints of car damage and ripped trim.
  • Ongoing billing after cancellation attempts and membership disputes.
  • Poor customer service, unreturned calls, and denied claims.
  • Reported rude or discriminatory staff interactions.

Positive Feedback

Cleans ok according to some customers.

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Avonelle Uke
map-marker New Braunfels, Texas

Manager at ******

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Very often when the manager sees women drivers instead of directing workers to help, he apparently calls them inside. There if basically no one available to help.

Preferred solution: Help when there

User's recommendation: Manager directive to workers not yo help customers

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Orie Zdh

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They ruined my exhaust!

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AI Highlights
  • - Went Friday; was told to keep trying.
  • - The car wash ripped a hole and crushed the middle crossover pipe.
  • - No contact since Friday; it's noon Monday.

on Friday I went there the guy told me to keep trying. The car wash ripped a nice hole and crushed the middle crossover pipe since Friday I haven't herd anything and its noon Monday no phone call nothing! Pretty bad car wash!

User's recommendation: film the whole experience so they don't try to avoid you

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Chris G Zuz

Bluewave does not cancel memberships without a fight!

AI Highlights
  • - Canceling may still charge your card.
  • - Customer service is hard to reach; calls hang up or go to voicemail.
  • - There are ongoing charges.

Be very careful if you ever try to cancel your monthly service with Bluewave. They will tell you that it is canceled but will continue to charge your credit card. Customer service is impossible to contact, as they either answer and then hang up on you or the call goes right to a recorded message to leave your name and number, but they NEVER call you back!

Company must be having financial difficulties if they can't afford to stop charging for a service they are no longer providing.

PLEASE BEWARE!!!

Loss:
$300

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Follow your cancelation request and immediately call your credit card company and request a block so Bluewave cannot continue to charge!

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Jesus Y Cnq

Billed continuously when only agreed to 1 month

AI Highlights
  • - Attendant charged my card for a monthly car wash.
  • - I paid June $14.95; refunds are owed for 7/7/20, 8/7/20, 9/7/20, 10/7/20, and 11/7/20.

When I visited blue wave, an attendant used my credit card for 1 months use of car wash. He had to of pushed the wrong button because blue wave keeps charging me every month when I agreed to only one month. So I paid for June which was $14.95.Blue wave owes me for 7/7/20,8/7/20,9/7/20,10/7/20and 11/7/20

Loss:
$75
Pros:
  • Cleans ok
Cons:
  • Get dirt from car in front on my vehicle

Preferred solution: Full refund

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Guest

Ruined my paint with deep scratches in a circular pattern. Good luck finding the manager refuse to take any responsibility for damages

Dylan G Nkf

Broken Front Bumper

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Before the wash my front bumper was intact properly, after washing, the side part of it was broken off of the car and loosened.

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3 comments
Guest

Damage my vehicle

Hayato Sgq

Did they ever reply to your complaint? The same thing happen to me! Of course, they are refusing to pay or take any responsibility for it.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Hayato Sgq

Damaged my vehicle

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William W Kkn

No service

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AI Highlights
  • - Bluewave said my tires are too wide.
  • - They should post a sign or stop servicing wide tires.

I have gone to bluewave several times and today they tell me tires are to wide. If that’s the case post a sign that you don’t service people with wide tires or better yet shut down the operation. That’s discrimination against people with wide tires.

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2 comments
Guest

This is by far the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard! If the tires don’t fit, they don’t fit! I have a suggestion how bout washing it yourself you lazy ***

Daneshia Kvf

I agree 100% with you.i They should train their associates. I am an officer and one of them threatened me, to beat me up ...Carwash Reading Road, Rosenberg Texas 77471

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Joachim s

Worst experience

I was threatened by their associate Jamel

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Evans E Oar

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Attendants having attitudes

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Dyer not working properly and the attendants have an attitude when I let them know that it needs to be fixed

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Anonymous

Ripped a piece of trim off from my truck

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AI Highlights
  • - Trim piece ripped off after car wash; incident filed.
  • - Manager waited 48 hours; I called, then the manager and supervisor rejected the claim.
Blue Wave Car Wash - Ripped a piece of trim off from my truck

Went through the car wash and when I got out of the car wash I notice a piece of trim had been ripped off .I did it just as the manager fill out an incident report and white 48 hours for him to review the situation.He did not call me I had to call him and when he told me to get the estimates I got the estimates when I told him the price he rejected my claim and his supervisor rejected it too.Direction for the rejection is because my vehicle was older and nobody else's vehicle got damaged that day

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Guest

Yes the same thing happened to my car just last week,I would suggest that people be very careful because this sounds like away of getting out of paying.

Exodus Zhe

Car damaged by automatic car wash station

AI Highlights
  • - The Jeep was hit at the Blue Wave car wash, damaging the antenna and right back tire.
  • - An incident report was filed; management denied liability.

This Friday Aug 21 2015 something hit my Jeep on the right side very badly while going thru the Blue Wave car wash station and I heard a strong noise. When done, I parked, asked for the manager and a worker named John give me back my all-twisted and broken antenna, he took pictures of my damaged right back tire, left and right doors, and the area where the antenna was located.

I completed an Incident report and asked John to give me a copy. He gave me also the business card of the manager: Jose Alvarado (281)955-**** txho01@***.com I drove carefully 1.3 miles to my home and the car was swinging, I stopped right back tire was loosing air. I replace it with the spare tire, I called the next day Jose Alvarado, and said they may review the video to give me an answer. I asked for his manager and he gave me his phone: Alvaro Rodriguez (281)740-****.

I called Alvaro on Saturday and he said he would review the video. Monday Alvaro Rodriguez called me telling me that the car wash is not liable, and that is the user's risk to use the car wash station under my own risk. He refused to give me a written response by denied any responsibility.

Yesterday I took the flat tire to Discount tires, and told me the tire was totally lost, I had to purchase 2 new tires.

Loss:
$1000
Cons:
  • Refuse cover damages

Preferred solution: Paid for the lost tire, antenna and left & rigth doors damaged of my Jeep.

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1 comment
Guest

Before you enter wash numerous signs say antenna down....if your antenna is not electric then unscrew it......come on it is not rocket science. ....wash is not liable for damage cause by the antenna to your vehicle you did not remove..everyone always wants to blame someone else for their mistakes.....that is want this country is coming....not like the old days where you just sucked it up...and lesson learned

Cylie Vom

Scratched up new BMW-refuse to fix!

AI Highlights
  • - New BMW was scratched after a car wash.
  • - Refund and repair were refused.
  • - The reviewer says it was theft of services and unethical practices.

New BMW, paper tags, ran it through the car wash only to get scratches all over it. refused refund, refused repair, they didn't care one bit, just said if you want to take further action, go ahead.

DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE!!!! theft of services is what this sounds like, pay for a service, you get the exact opposite, refused a refund, then stick you with a repair bill. How can a company operate like this and get away with it?

They actually have signs that explain THEY are responsible for damages, then tell us to bad, so sad. SAD IS POOR, UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES.

Loss:
$1000
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4 comments
Guest

yeah, we reread those signs, we read for a living. We thought it was awesome that they would actually assume responsibility for faulty workmanship, I mean geez, I assumed responsibility in my shops.

As for a "BMW", a car is a car, who cares what it is, I was making a point.

When you're near the coast, and you have to deal with wind, sand, and sea spray, you wash your car often, you would think a business dedicated to cleaning cars would actually be good at it. The manager explained he was washing cars since the 80's......maybe he should've finished High School.

Guest
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Who was the genius that decided to run a brand new beemer through a scrubba dub dub automated scratchola machine. Maybe you shouldn't have bothered to finish school. Lotta good that piece o paper didya

Guest
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This place scratches old and new vehicles, just like the idiots who run the company..damage but don't repair, thank goodness for winning lawsuits though, more than another damaging carwash is always better!!!

Courtnie Vei

You'd better reread those signs. I've never seen a carwash or any business for that matter, post a sign claiming responsibility.

Usually the opposite.

But really, you ran a new BMW through an automated car wash? Not too smart.

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Anonymous
map-marker Los Angeles, California

Stold my ipod while i was getting a car wash

AI Highlights
  • - Basic wash cost about $20 at Blue Wave; my iPod went missing.
  • - The manager refused to search, yelled at me, and said no one steals at Blue Wave.

i went to blue wave car wash yesterday on 05-06-08, on my lunch break. i got the basic wash, for 20 some dollars.

there is a coffee shop next to the car wash so i decided to grab a coffee for a minute and waited. when i got my car back, the first thing i went to look for was my ipod. i didn't even get in my car, and i noticed my ipod was missing. i was 100% sure i had it cause i hid it too.

so i went to tell the manager that my ipod was missing and thats were it all starts. he told me no body touch my ipod without even looking at me , he told me no body steels at blue wave car wash, he kept calling me mama or mami or sexy mami, he got in my face and screamed at me. he was a Spanish older guy , i am 20 years old and tiny, and for a guy to scream at me like that hurts my feelings. i asked him to search the guy who was cleaning " empty"my car .

he refused i asked him i want my ipod back and he ignored me and left . i asked him for the owners number , he ignored me and said that i was sleep walking and that i am illusionary. he didn't offer me nothing . i left crying, and mad, and on top of that it was the worst car wash i have ever got.

this is not right . there is a lot of complaints for this place. this place should close down. please i am begging u guys to do something about this .

ill probably never get my ipod back or my money for it "$ 200", but i want to let everybody know how easily they steel and they all back each other up.

he curses at me in front of everybody.

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