Chevron

Wow, expensive, not clean, and horrible car wash. Gas is waaaayyy more expensive then anywhere else. The blue buckets outside for wind shields are moldy and smell horrible. And the car wash feels like hourses galloping on top of your car. The only reason i stop here was because of the awsome smoke shop across the street and the drive through starbucks. Never again.

What this gas station has going for it is consistency: 1) it is consistently more expensive than any of the other gas station in the Palo Alto area, and 2) its gas attendant is also consistently rude and unhelpful.
First, the gas. Today, the premium is $ 4.33 but the premium at the Valero down the street is $ 4.08. If you want to stay with Chevron gas, then there are also better options. The Chrvron on Middlefield and Shoreline in Mountain View (5 min away) is selling premium for $ 3.99. That’s a $.34 difference (times 10 gallons and you can probably get some chicken nuggets for lunch). But price is not its only problem.
Second, the attendant is always rude. And, you can’t be rude when it’s your own car wash that is poorly maintained and always broken. Of course, they don’t put up a sign to warn folks about this. Today, I bought the car wash and then had to go ask the attendant when I pulled into the wash area and nothing happened. Then the attendant had the nerve to say that I should’ve noticed that the floor of the wash area wasn’t wet and a working car wash would have a wet floor. Really?
I suggest that everyone avoid this station. You pay in money and frustration.

I purchased a car wash and the machine was broken. They refused to credit my card and I had to make time in my schedule to come back and use it. The customer service is quite bad and I don’t recommend using this station. There are a lot more around, I suggest using one of those.

Gas here is extremely expensive compared to the ones in San Mateo and even San Francisco wow it’s freaking crazy! There’s a Valero a few blocks down and a shell close by too but this place has got to be one of the highest.

The gas here is expensive as you would expect. The problem is car wash — if you buy the regular car wash you don’t get machine dried.
I just pulled out with my car wet all over and now drying off into a delightful spotted exterior which makes it a total waste of money and makes my review one star.
P. s. Apparently the signs say no dry for regular wash. The nice lady told me to read it when I asked.

The gas here was fine. Although, I picked this place specifically because I needed a car wash badly. The car wash was broken so I was unable to wash my car. I ended up at another place down the street.

Only if I could give zero stars… Don’t ever use their carwash contraption.
After waiting for thirty-​five minutes, I got to the screen where I could buy the carwash and enter. Cash is allowed. Except that the banknote slot was taped. So, I pour in a lot of coins, until the guy in the car behind me shouts at tell me that does not work either (No signs indicating that, so my coins are gone). I had to leave my son in the car (no space to back out), run to the store, and the attendant sells me the stuff: Except that he knows the thing does not really work well, so he offers to operate the screen for me and lets me go in. It stops after half a minute. He tells me to get out and get back in the line, after canceling my order and buying a new ticket. I am fuming but I comply. Same thing happens again. The guy behind me tells me this is his second attempt, too. By now, my little son is crying in the back: he wanted the carwash, since he thinks it is cool. He is terrified beyond his wit that we will get stuck in the machine, and the guy in the red shirt (the attendant) cannot run the machine. After waiting another fifteen, and having my turn, this time the machine stops a minute in. The attendant says I must not know how to stop the car. I guess the other cars did not know how to stop either!
I had to console my son for several minute after the experience, and I did not want him to see me get physical, but I was almost there! I have used this place before, and as the other reviews say, the machine does not clean your car well, but I am not picky and my son likes the excitement. No more! When we got back home, he was scared to have his evening bath: I must sue them for psychological damages.
Just use a proper carwash, and spend your money on real hardworking people hoping to have your car washing business. Not this broken machine.

Good car wash… Gas is high priced

expensive gas here

As far as the car wash is concerned, the place is notorious for customers driving out upset for for the soap-​less spit-​like car wash service. Better go to Lozanos’ where you pay more but will get better supervised wash treatment on the spot. Or do like I do rarely & sometimes: a sponge, a hose and soapy water when time permits.

Car wash is great to get the dust off without paying Palo Alto prices. Bonus that Taco Bell is across the street.

The location’s great… and I’m super lazy, so its nice to get a car wash conveniently… except when it doesn’t actually wash my car.
My car is still dirty, and it pisses me off. How hard is it to actually have the machine work? I have never encountered this. I second everyone else here, that the car wash SUCKS! I suppose I could go to the places with the long ass lines… but I don’t really want to. But now, I will have to.

This clean, brightly lit new Chevron is convenient, but you can only get three stars when your gas is 20¢ higher than the same brand station just 5 miles down the road in Mountain View, and your cigarettes are exorbitant as well.
(Secret hint to business: Get competitive & I’ll up it a star, get cheap & I’ll up it two. This tip is invisible to regular Unilocal visitors, so only you can see it, and it can be our little secret.)

I been to this gas station a number of times.
The services is great and its really easy to acces!

This is probably the worst Chevron in the area, but among other gas stations, it’s clean, decent, and has new pumps. Would I use it again? No.
Alex is right — the car wash does not do drying. I filled up (12 gallons) and there was no car wash discount.
Gas was 10% (ten per cent!) more expensive than at the Chevron a few miles down El Camino, at 85.

Sigh.
When my car was in the garage I could go for a couple of months without a wash as it stayed nice and clean. Pristine inside and out. I was spoiled. Now that I live in a house and the garage is not available, I am among the other garage-​less plebs, leaving my car outside to brave the elements. After being overrun by bird droppings, tree matter, and general dirt, I bought a car cover and quickly realized that it’s not what I want (I returned it). I am convinced that the birds are collectively gunning for my car.
I typically buy my gas at Chevron and was happy to see that this location has a car wash. While driving to a friend’s house I pulled in for a fill-​up and a wash, and saw that they offer a discounted card for $ 30 + deposit, and I could get six washes by buying the econ-​o-​wash. That seemed like a deal. I guess I’ve never gotten a $ 5 wash before because I had water drop stains all over the car and it wasn’t up to snuff. Apparently they don’t use Jet-​Dry? Sadly, on my next wash I left my car antennae up and went in to the wash while listening to 104.9 (that’ll teach me). It was only late that night as I was about to drive home that I saw it fully extended and bent. Was my car vandalized? Oh. No, it was just my tired brain forgetting Car Wash 101 about lowering the antennae upon entry. I hate it when I do something stupid and it costs me money. Though I pulled out my Tool Time Tool Box, I was not able to wrench this back in to submission to fully retract, so I have to take it in for replacement.
The $ 7 car wash is good enough to clean off the dirt and the spots are gone. Nice clean station. Gas is reasonably priced (I can only use Supreme). Good service. I get one star for leaving up the antennae.
All because of some stupid birds. I hate being a garage-​less pleb.

If only I had read Alex’s review first before washing my car. I needed gas and it was on the way back to the office, the Super H was pretty dirty so I figured I could do the drive thru wash. First I couldn’t pay at the pump (cause my receipt was available inside — wtf), then I thought I could pay before the wash and after all that, I still walked inside and paid for a carwash — those should have all been signs. Normally I don’t move my side mirrors but as I pulled in, I noticed a sign saying push in mirrors, of course it didn’t register until it was too late and the wash decided to push in my mirrors on it’s own. The wash was pretty quick and it was evident as to why. After I finished, I pulled my car forward, got out of the car, returned my mirrors to their proper position and then noticed all kinds of soap in my sunroof. Live and learn.
p. s. this location is pretty expensive — I know gas in general is expensive, but I think this one ranks pretty high.

This Chevron has new pumps and machines, but the car wash was terrible. We had the full car wash; there was no discount even with a full tank gas purchase, so we ended up paying $ 9 for a terrible wash. The top of the roof wasn’t even clean afterward, and there might as well be no drying — the whole front windshield was totally wet afterward.