Welcome a fresh start to spring!  

Join us for National Cleaning Week and our Spring Clean Day at participating locations across the country.

National Cleaning Week is celebrated annually during the last week of March. Spring cleaning is a great time to put away the winter gear, declutter, and tidy up living spaces.

We’re excited to bring that spring clean feeling to the car wash!

Spring Clean Day at Tommy’s Express

We are here for all the clean.

Step into spring with a clean car at our annual event. Participating locations are offering a free wash to guests so they experience that spring clean satisfaction.

Cleaning your vehicle is a critical part of your spring cleaning checklist. We can help make it fast, fun, and free. And hopefully, your shiny car will trigger motivation for the rest of your checklist. 

Use our free car vacuums to suck up all the winter grit and our free mat washers to wash away the salt and dirt marks. We’ve got your car covered, inside and out. 

Join us for:  

• A free WORKS exterior wash 
• Free mat washers 
• Free vacuums  
• Free giveaways for each guest while supplies last! 

Follow your favorite wash location on Facebook to find more details on our car cleaning day. Let’s get clean!  

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Spring means a new season, a fresh chapter, and a chance for us all to spend some time outside in the shade or sunshine, cleaning out our cars. 

And if you’re anything like us, they really could use some attention. 

So, get ready to take it to the next level and give your car the attention it deserves, inside and out, with this helpful guide we made just for you!

Clean out your car

First things first. Open your doors and pull everything out of your car. That means the spare change, old wrappers, road maps, floor mats, registration cards, months-old air fresheners, years-old oil change reminders, and all the rest. 

Set everything you’ll still need aside and trash the rest. Trust us. It’ll feel great when you’re finished. 

Vacuum each crack and crevice 

Now that you’ve got everything necessary out of the way, you can use your house vacuum, a shop vac, or visit your local Tommy’s Express to vacuum out your entire car and all the crumbs, dirt, leaves, and stale french-fries hiding inside it. 

Don’t forget to move your chairs forward or backward to get underneath, and don’t neglect those little gaps around the seat belt anchors in the back.

Clean carpeting, seats, and other soft surfaces 

If you have stains or crusty soils on your car’s carpeting, seats, or other upholstery that the vacuum can’t get out, you’ll need to clean them off by hand using a soft wet rag with a tiny drop of dish soap if needed. 

With some scrubbing, you should be able to spot-clean most upholstery, vinyl, or leather easily. A quick pass or scrub over all your other upholstered surfaces can help pull out dust and light odors that may have built up over the long winter. 

Quick Tips:

• Have you got your paper towels ready? Great! Now, put them away. Paper towels can leave crumbles and bits of lint behind as they wear down, so find some towels or old rags instead.
• Don’t use bleach or peroxide, even diluted.
• If your seats are upholstered, and some stains still won’t come out, you can use a steam cleaner for extra cleaning power.
• Saddle soap, leather cleaners, and leather conditioners are your best options for properly cleaning and maintaining high-quality genuine leather surfaces.
• Don’t use too much water! Soaking your seats will leave your car smelling musty if they can’t dry out.
• If you have rips or tears in your vinyl or leather surfaces, you can buy color-matched, patterned adhesive patches to cover over the damage and give your car a fun bit of character too.

Car dashboard and hard surface cleaning 

When it comes to hard surfaces, 50% isopropyl alcohol solutions are safe and effective for cleaning. Use a microfiber cloth for the flat stretches and an old toothbrush or paintbrush for detail cleaning to really get in and deal with all those little cracks and corners. 

Glass and mirrors

You’ll want to carefully clean the inside and outside of your windows, the glass over your indicators, and your rearview and side-view mirrors. 

For these surfaces, use one chamois to apply a glass cleaning compound and a second dry chamois to wipe the surfaces clean without leaving streaks or residue. Just try to keep the glass cleaner off any non-glass surfaces while you work. 

Digital screens

DO NOT use glass cleaners on any electronic screens on your dashboard or in the passenger area, as they can be damaging. Instead, use another microfiber cloth and some isopropyl alcohol or a screen cleaner compound to remove dust, grime, and fingerprints. 

Freshen up your air

An air freshener is the perfect final touch after a good interior detailing. That’s why we include 2 in each of our detailing kits, along with a microfiber cloth, and ready-to-use surface and glass cleaning towels. 

Check for cracks and chips

Paint chips can rust out, and cracks in your glass can grow and spread. Fortunately, you can fix these common issues with simple DIY kits or schedule a visit with your local automotive repair service. 

Clean your car’s exterior at Tommy’s Express

Sure, you can pull your car onto the grass (to keep soap suds out of your local storm drain), buy some (vehicle-safe!) soaps and brushes, learn the two-bucket cleaning technique (to prevent scratching), and invest in vehicle wax and tire shine while you’re at it. 

Or, if you don’t like water spots and you have other plans this weekend, you can take just a few minutes and visit your local Tommy’s Express for a top-to-bottom wash that’s convenient, safe, and incredibly affordable—especially with a WORKS level TommyClub subscription, available on-demand with the Tommy’s Express app. 

We guarantee your car will look and feel better than ever—clean, shiny, dry, and ready for whatever springtime adventures await you! 

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Springtime is here again, which means it’s time to get tissues out, allergy meds in, and get pollen off your car. We all love warm weather and getting back outside, but some of us are already suffering with watery eyes and runny noses that inevitably make going outdoors a pain. 

The problem for allergy sufferers is that different plants have different pollen seasons, ranging from as early as January to as late as November. Spring months, however, tend to be the worst, as fine yellow powder blankets everything outdoors, including your car.  

Tommy’s Express can make your commute fresher and give your car some pollen protection all season long. It turns out your sinuses aren’t the only things pollen doesn’t mix well with. 

Pollen is not just about allergies 

While the dusty buildup of pollen on your car might not seem so bad, the acidity of the buildup can dull the paint on your vehicle, eat away at your clearcoat, and even promote rusting.

Flower and tree pollen are released in a virtual flood during the spring. If your entire car is dusted with pollen, this season-long, low-grade chemical burn can add up to some pretty surprising damage if you don’t deal with it proactively.

Getting pollen off your car is essential, whether you suffer from allergies or not. Thankfully, Tommy’s Express makes it easy to keep your vehicle protected, clean, and beautiful. 

Fresh and clean, inside and out 

A car wash at Tommy’s Express is specially designed to cleanse every part of your vehicle, even underneath. This keeps the surface fresh and clean so you don’t track pollen back and forth from work to your garage.

Our Ceramic Body Wax leaves a thin coat of carnauba wax over the surface of your vehicle, adding a layer of protection to make it harder for pollen to stick. With an Unlimited TommyClub membership, you can wash as much as you need for the same monthly price, which comes in especially handy during pollen season.

Our self-serve vacuums are a fast, free way to spring clean a car’s interior—and that includes sucking up pollen dust. Vacuum the inside surfaces of your car to remove the buildup that may have snuck in.

Use the dashboard wipes included in our detail kits or anti-static dust spray to treat car surfaces to repel pollen and keep as much of it out of your car as possible.

Check your air filters

One last quick tip: Pollen dust is everywhere, and even if your car is clean inside and out, it can still get in through your vehicle’s air intake while you’re on the road. Cleaning or replacing your cabin air filter will help block those particles and keep your driving experience as comfortable as possible. 

It’s not a magic bullet for allergy season, but by taking proactive care of your car and making the trip to Tommy’s Express, you can limit your symptoms and make your vehicle that much more comfortable to spend time in. Join TommyClub and try your local Tommy’s Express Car Wash today! 

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1. Fast and powerful exterior washing

When you bring your car in our high-pressure blasters and soft cloth brushes, do a great job at pulling away the built-up dust and grime from the winter months. The same goes for your undercarriage, which (if you live in the north) probably has built-up road salt deposits, which cause corrosion. With wash times of three minutes, and wait times of less than ten minutes even during our busiest days, there’s no faster way to give the family car a good scrub.

2. Outstanding extras

Try our WORKS Wash and your car will come out better than clean with UV protectant to help block the sun’s damaging rays, Ceramic Body Wax® for even greater paint protection and shine, and Tire Gloss for a perfect dark-black wet look finish.

3. Free vacuums*

Our free vacuum stations* are the perfect destination for anyone with onboard dust, crumbs, or trash that just have to go. Use our high-power, dual-drop vacs to clean your car from the inside out without dragging a hose back and forth, and enjoy the nice weather from a freshly cleaned vehicle when you’re done.

4. Cleaning kits

Try one of our detail packs, loaded with everything you need to give your console and windows a fresh spring shine. The packs include Glass Cleaner Towelettes, a Microfiber Towel, Multipurpose Scented Wipes, and a Little Tree Air Freshener to keep your vehicle smelling clean long after you head home.

5. Floor mat cleaners

At participating locations our powerful floor mat cleaners are up and running right now! Just insert your dirty, salty floor mats and get them back deep-cleaned and dry in less than a minute each.

*At participating locations only.

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