Chevron

Gasoline prices at this Chevron are a little lower than other Chevrons because they are competing with Arco and 7-​Eleven which are both nearby.
They have a small food mart called Extra Mile that has all your typical convenience store goods.
They have an automated car wash here. I’m not a fan of automated car washes to begin with or getting a car wash at a gas station. So I’d never get my car washed here. I’d prefer to go to a place that focuses on car washes and cleaning that is actually done by people.
I like that this is located off the freeway. Pretty convenient.

CAR WASH — BOO!!!
THIS REVIEW COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!
(Ok maybe not, but it will save you time, money, and stress… Which is all part of your life ;-P
Okay yes this car wash is brushless and it’s not super expensive, but it’s also pretty janky and doesn’t do a good job.
AND FOR GOSH SAKES WHATEVER YOU DO — DO NOT GET THE WAX!!!
Eww yuck :-O it was bad enough that it didn’t clean my car well, and the water pressure on the side of my doors was so strong I was afraid my paint was going to start peeling off. Either that or send me into a time traveling vortex to a hellish place with nothing but terrible car washes or something crazy like that.
Anyway…
once I was finished and I started to hand dry a few areas that still had water on it, THE WAX APPEARED LIKE A DARK FOG SUBTLY CREEPING IN… BEFORE YOU KNOW IT — IT WAS THERE! AND THE BATTLE BEGAN!
It was me against the wax — AND IT WAS WINNING!!! It seems like the more time I wiped in circles with my soft microfiber towels, the more it spread and spread and spread… there seemed to be no end! Like a splash of red wine on a white shirt, the more you scrub the more voracious it became. It was like an airborne disease and it tainted the land and ravished it until there was nothing left but white smear marks all over my brand-​new sporty blue paint…
In the beginning, it almost seems like the more I wiped and buffed and the harder I went, it was as if it fed it like an evil monster feeding off of my tension and animosity. It grew AND GREW!!!
Nevertheless I dropped rag after rag after endless rag. After about 30 plus minutes — and NO I’m not exaggerating — I finally started to get a handle on it. 8? rags later, a few battle scars and some really, REALLY sore arms, I was able to wipe up and buff just about as most of the «wax» as possible. «Wax».
The problem here is that it’s not normal wax. Aside from being concocted in the kitchen of Orcs and angry Leprechauns, it has other undesirable characterize (aside from the obvious, looming evil of course). It’s a cheap crappy ghetto car wash 1980s wax — it does nothing but smear like a cheap candle on the mirror! Not the kind of thing you want!
Although I prefer a brushless carwash because I do have a brand-​new car and want to preserve my paint job as much as possible, I definitely won’t be using that piece of junk anymore. No sir! No more Orc wax for me. «Wax».
WASHERS BEWARE!

We’ve gone to this place to use the car wash a few times and it’s pretty much a waste of time and money. We pay for the most expensive one, the deluxe, I think, and it still doesn’t clean the car very well; it’s pretty pointless. You’d be better off washing your own car or going somewhere else!

Worst car wash around. Touch-​less car washes are worthless and the drying mechanism blew all the water into a straight line right down the middle of my car, front to back. What a waste of $ 8!

Worst experience — Keypad on pump is terrible (skips presses), wouldn’t take my ATM (had to go inside), car wash wasn’t working, vacuum is $ 2 worth of quarters and time is so short I only got half of the car done, and then they didn’t have any more quarters inside!

This gas station is one I would never visit if I weren’t in a pinch. But that’s the good thing about it. It’s in a really good location. Saved me from running out of gas, but it’s too expensive.

Competitive gas prices, definitely the cheaper of chevrons in San Diego for gas. Also very conveniently located off the 805 freeway on balboa with a little convenience store as well. Definitely gets the job done. As satisfied as you can be for a gas station :)

Average Chevron. A little older than others. They have a car wash but it isn’t as nice as the one down the street by 163. It is a brushless wash though. The machine is much larger and slower. Painfully slow.
The nice thing is the drier goes around the entire car (as opposed to driving through a drier) twice so it dries your car a little better.
One complaint: filling stations never have signs that tell you what each wash does. I would be more apt to get a deluxe if I know what it entailed.

good location right off the freeway and good prices-​they keep it competitive with ARCO.
i really like the car wash here-​but you have to pay cash for it

5 locations and no one would let us use the restroom… Until now XD…
SAFE!!!

I hate their pumps here. They’re always turning off like my car is full of gas when I know for sure it is not — like when I was running of fumes and had only put $ 13 of gas in the car so far.

I’m so glad they’re open late. The Chevron off of Murphy Canyon closes super early and I’m just like *$%! That’s all I have to say about this place.

For the past couple days, ever since visiting Tabe BBQ at the Extra Mile on Murphy Canyon Rd, I’ve been on a quest to get a Johnsonville bratwurst with sauerkraut at an Extra Mile store. Sure, I could have just went to the original Chevron where I saw the delicious beast, but I decided to try going to the Extra Mile on Linda Vista Rd (which isn’t even listed on the Chevron website) like 3 miles from where I work. Sadly, their hotdog/​sausage machines were «Out of Order. I then tried the Chevron on Balboa right off the 163 but they didn’t have the Extra Mile store. Finally, I was lead to this Chevron/​Extra Mile. I got half of what I came for. A bratwurst with onions and mustard. Unfortunately they didn’t get their shipment of sauerkraut but the guy there said it’s usually there. Even he understood my plight saying «We gotta get that sauerkraut in!» to which I replied, «I know, man!» Anyway, the sausage was good, but I was somewhat disappointed that I didn’t have get it with sauerkraut. But I’m confident that one day, I shall return victorious.
Had they had everything I wanted, I would have taken advantage of the buy two hot food items and get a free 32oz fountain drink… deal.