Petro-Canada Car Wash Review Comes Down to 21 Washes in 90 Days
A Petro-Canada car wash costs $16.99 on a single ticket, $70 on a Wash & Go card or $239 for a 90-day Season Pass, in Canadian dollars before tax.
For most drivers the card is the pick. Register it online and it holds six washes at $11.67 each, with no expiry.
The pass needs about 21 washes in 90 days to beat that.
It also carries a one-device rule that has led to cancelled passes and no refund.
We haven’t run a car through a Petro-Canada wash. This review rests on the chain’s own pages and terms, a CTV News report and BBB complaints, so it judges prices and rules, not how clean your car will come out.
What a Petro-Canada car wash costs
Every Petro-Canada wash is in Canada, so these are Canadian dollars. Don’t compare them directly with our Mister Car Wash prices, which are in US dollars.
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Car wash ticket | $16.99 |
| Wash & Go card | $70 |
| Season Pass, 90 days | $239 |
All three buy the top wash, SuperWorks at SuperWash sites and GlideForCarLovers at Glide sites, with body gloss wax, an underbody rust inhibitor and a free vacuum. The pages we read post no price for any lower wash.
Tax goes on top. CTV News reported that a Thornhill, Ontario, buyer paid $270 for a 90-day pass, which matches $239 plus Ontario’s 13% HST.
One ticket, two posted prices
The main car wash page shows $16.99 and says the price may vary by location. The ticket page in the rewards section shows $14.99. The station pages we read list services and hours but no wash price, so check at the pump or till.
We use $16.99 below, since Petro-Canada’s FAQ sends price questions to that page.
The wash count picks the winner
Card washes never expire, so a card only has to beat the ticket on cost per wash. It does from the fifth wash, because four tickets cost $67.96 and five cost $84.95.
The bonus wash isn’t automatic. It loads when you register the card online or reload it, and registering needs a Petro-Points account, which is open to people who live in Canada. A visitor without one pays $14 a wash.
- $14 on an unregistered card
- $11.67 on a registered $70 card
- $11.11 on the $200 reload
The Season Pass charges by the day, not the wash. It beats $16.99 tickets on the 15th wash, so the FAQ’s line that it “pays for itself in under 20 washes” holds against tickets. Against the $70 card it takes 21, or one wash every four days or so.
A weekly washer gets 13 washes in 90 days. That’s $220.87 on tickets, $151.67 at the card rate and $239 on the pass, the most expensive of the three. Wash twice a week and the order flips, since 26 washes cost about $303 at the card rate.
Longer passes cost less per day
| Days | Price |
|---|---|
| 30 | $119 |
| 60 | $169 |
| 90 | $239 |
| 180 | $435 |
| 270 | $640 |
| 360 | $845 |
The daily rate falls from $3.97 on a 30-day reload to $2.35 on 360 days. Even so, the 360-day reload needs 73 washes to beat the $70 card, one every five days all year.
The clock starts at first use and doesn’t stop. Skipped days are forfeited, and the FAQ’s answer to a site closed by maintenance or extreme cold is to try another one. Auto-reload stays on until you switch it off online, and its charges are final.
Twenty-one washes in 90 days means a trip every four days, and the pass pays nothing back for days you miss. A $70 card has no clock and far less to lose under the device rule, so I would start there. Keep count through one winter. If you clear 21, buy the pass next time.
Points are worth more on washes than on gas
Petro-Points is the chain’s fuel rewards program. You earn 10 points per litre of fuel and 10 per dollar on washes, and 1,000 points normally take $1 off fuel or in-store items. Washes have their own point prices, which stretch further.
A ticket costs 10,000 points, a Wash & Go card 50,000 and a 90-day pass 185,000, so a ticket stretches them furthest of these, even at the $14.99 price.
Earning them is slow. At 10 points a litre, 10,000 points means 1,000 litres of fuel, about 20 fill-ups of 50 litres. Even under the double-points banner on the car wash page, a $70 card earns 1,400 points, worth $1.40.
Petro-Canada’s SuperFoam page lists “10,000 Petro-Points earned” with a top wash. The program terms say 10 points per $1 on car washes, about 170 on a ticket. Go by the terms unless your receipt shows otherwise.
Fuel can trim a ticket too. Buying 25 litres takes $2 off any wash, and buying two top-wash tickets saves 5 cents a litre on up to 150 litres. Neither brings a ticket down to the card’s $11.67, and cards can’t be combined with other offers.
The one-device rule can end a pass early
The pass allows one wash and one vacuum a day. The terms limit each card to one device, yet nothing in the Season Pass section limits it to one car. Households that share a pass sit right in that gap.
CTV News reported in 2026 on two Ontario families whose passes stopped working, one with 80 days left. Petro-Canada said those two were “incorrectly flagged” and replaced them, and that anyone breaking the device rule gets a cancellation email and no refund.
The complaints kept coming after that. Three of the 10 newest on Petro-Canada’s BBB complaints page describe a pass cancelled over shared devices, with days still left. These are customers’ accounts, and the company’s replies aren’t published.
If you still want the pass, stay inside the terms as written.
- Load it on one phone only, never a second phone in the household
- Or skip the app and tap the plastic card
- Register the card, which protects the balance if it’s lost
Wash & Go has the same device line, but only $70 at risk, and both cards are non-refundable.
Four wash setups sit under two names
The FAQ lists four setups behind the SuperWash and Glide signs.
- SuperWash soft cloth tunnel, a conveyor through soft foam
- SuperWash touch-free tunnel, a conveyor with high-pressure jets, at select sites
- SuperWash touch-free rollover, where you park and the equipment moves
- Glide, a soft cloth tunnel with an easier conveyor and a Power-Jet Dry
The location finder shows what a station has. 11980 Hurontario Street in Brampton lists “Car wash (touchless),” while 9878 Dixie Road lists no wash at all. With over 260 washes against 1,500 or more locations, check first.
Petro-Canada says touchless can match soft cloth if you wash often. Our touchless and soft-touch comparison covers the trade-offs.
Its underbody spray is a low-pressure fresh water rinse with no detergent, so see our winter washing steps if your car is caked in salt.
Where the cards work
The Season Pass works in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It isn’t sold in Quebec, where a similar 90-day contract goes by Carte accès lave-auto. Wash & Go adds Quebec. Atlantic Canada isn’t on either list, so ask before buying a card there.
Cleanliness is the part we can’t vouch for
No page can tell you how well your local machine works. Two more of those 10 BBB filings dispute the wash itself, one over a car still dirty and one over scratches.
Recent reviews of your own station will tell you more, and our page on whether automatic washes scratch paint covers that risk.
Two policies only help before you drive off.
- If you aren’t happy with the result, tell the attendant for a free second wash, since that offer ends once you’ve left
- If you suspect damage, report it on site, where the attendant inspects the car and files a report, with findings promised within 48 hours
Some vehicle types and sizes can’t go through, and the limits are posted at each site. Not every wash is open 24 hours.
