Car Wash Restrictions

During a drought, washing your car on your driveway could cost up to $375 in fines in the City of Vancouver. Here’s a quote below from the City of Vancouver website regarding home driveway car washing: “Washing your car on the street is illegal, it flushes soap and grease into curb drains, polluting our waterways. Instead, go to a car wash, they:

• Have special drains and use re-cycled water
• Typically use 7 times less water than washing in your driveway”

Nature And Our Environment 

Engine and brake residue, antifreeze, grease, oil, and other harmful pollutants cling to the surface of your car, particularly its tires, wheels and fenders. These are environmental concerns to consider when choosing where to wash your car. Washing your car at home results in these contaminants and soap chemicals running directly into storm sewers that flow into local streams, rivers and eventually the ocean.

Respectful of Our Environment 

Shine Auto Wash reclaims and recycles water used in our wash process, utilizing a series of separation tanks and dual massive oil separation vessels that prevent oils, grease or anything toxic from entering the city’s sanitary or stormwater systems.  

Time for a solution.  Let’s stop dumping biohazards into our water supply. Visit or contact Shine Auto Wash today, and become part of a clean future.