31425
Pelican Car Wash & Quick Lube
31425 US Highway 19 N, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Car wash, hand washing for large and high-end vehicles, interior and exterior detailing, hand wax, window tint, oil changes and quick lube.
Palm Harbor since 1987
About Pelican
Two shops, one driveway apart, on US Highway 19 North. Washing, detailing and quick lube at 31425. Mechanical repair at 31465. Same family of buildings, same road, for more than 38 years.
A long time on the same road
Pelican has been operating on US Highway 19 North in Palm Harbor since 1987. In that time the road has been widened, the traffic has doubled and most of the businesses along it have changed hands more than once. The two Pelican buildings have not moved.
What sits on the lot today is two separate operations. Pelican Car Wash & Quick Lube at 31425 US Highway 19 N handles washing, hand washing for larger and higher-end vehicles, interior and exterior detailing, hand wax, window tint and quick lube oil changes. Pelican Auto Care at 31465 US Highway 19 N handles mechanical work: brakes, air conditioning, batteries, starters, alternators, engine and cooling system repair, diagnostics and preventive maintenance.
They are next door to each other and they are not interchangeable. The chooser further down this page sends you to the right one.
If you are still deciding, there are three places to look that are not marketing copy. The reviews page quotes customers word for word from the Google listing for each building, the photo gallery is photographs of this lot and no one else's, and the car care guides are what the team explains at the counter, written down.
The part that does not show up in a photograph
Car care is a trade with a lot of turnover. Pelican has team members who have been here long enough to have served the same customers through several vehicles each: two past twenty five years, one at around seventeen.
How we work
Three things that have not changed, and that are worth stating plainly because plenty of places on this road do the opposite.
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Looked at before it is quoted
On the repair side nothing is priced from a description over the counter. The car goes on the ramp, the fault is found, and then you are told what it costs.
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Hands, not just machines
Larger and higher-end vehicles are washed by hand at 31425, and wax is applied by hand rather than sprayed on at the end of a tunnel.
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The same faces
The people who have been here twenty five years are the reason we do not have to explain your car to a new person every visit.
Where to go
Car wash and quick lube here. Auto repair next door.
Pelican runs two separate operations next door to each other on US 19. Pick the one you need.
31465
Pelican Auto Care
31465 US Highway 19 N, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Mechanical repair, diagnostics and preventive maintenance: brakes, air conditioning, batteries, starters, alternators, engine and cooling system work.