Can anyone recommend a good car wash near downtown Chicago? I usually go to Gold Coast on Orleans but I think I am done with them. Quality has just gone down the toilet in the last year or so.

I would just wash it myself, but living in a high rise it can be a pretty big pain in the *** to do.

Simons does a nice handwash and detail. they are on shakespeare i believe.

www.simonsshineshop.com

Used to go there until they ruined my C55 wheels and subsequently ruined the paint on my Audi S5.

Really? How'd that happen?

Well I had a rashed up wheel and Simons offers wheel repair. I had been going there for some time and trusted them to fix it. Well, they ended up making it worse and it turned in to a huge fiasco with me going back and forth with them several times and many weeks. I ended up getting a refund and taking my wheel somewhere else where it was repaired correctly the first time. What really made me angry about this service was the manager there was trying to tell me the wheel looked great and that they had repaired it to spec. Not even close! A small rash repair turned in to a complete wheel repaint because they f'd up the wheel so bad.

Down the road a bit after that I had one of the very first Audi S5s in black. They took some sort of abrasive brush to my paint which produced small scratches all over the place. Refused to fix it and said they didn't do it.

Wrote a lengthy complaint to the owner and never even received a response.

Needless to say I'm done with that joint!

wow thats shady...sorry to hear that...do you mind sharing where you got your wheels redone at? Im looking to refinish mine here when winter comes.

Yeah, you couldn't pay me to go back there.

Here is the place I take all my wheels and they always do a bang up job. I originally found out about them from the NSX guys. Shady neighborhood but don't let that fool you, they do top notch work.

Keystone Automotive
3333 W. 47th Place
Chicago IL 60632-3041
773-927-9600

Great. Thanks. Ill definitely check them out.

You're very welcome. Let me know how they come out.