Tunnel & Touchless Car Wash Chemicals

In an express tunnel, chemistry has seconds to work. Golden West Chemical manufactures tunnel and touchless car wash chemicals in Gardena, California, formulated for high-throughput operations where dwell time is short and cost per car is measured to the cent.

The tunnel sequence, from our tanks

We make the core tunnel chemistry in-house: heavy-duty presoak that opens road film before friction or high pressure, hyper-concentrated wash soaps, triple-color foam conditioner in blue, red, yellow, and green for the show your customers pay for, and sheeting drying agents that pull water off the panel before the blowers. For touchless and in-bay automatic washes, our concentrated, biodegradable Touchless soap delivers the cleaning power friction normally provides.

Concentration is the whole game

Tunnel margins are decided at the proportioner. Because we formulate the product, we publish what it is and tell you the dilution ratio — so you can compare true cost per car, not drum prices. Owner-chemist Oscar helps accounts dial in titration for their water hardness and equipment.

Drums and totes, delivered

Tunnel accounts buy 30 and 55-gallon drums and 275-gallon totes. We deliver across Los Angeles, the South Bay, Long Beach and Orange County with ZIP-based freight, and arrange freight elsewhere in the USA. Request wholesale pricing — reviewed the same business day. The rest of the line, from degreasers to finishing products, is on the shop page.

Common questions