Palomar Shell

Until recently I worked less than a block from the Palomar Shell service station. This location nearly always had the lowest prices in the area. The convenience store is a little dumpy, and the garage has always seemed sketchy to me. However, the clerks inside the c-​store have always been super nice. Best gas prices + convenient location = my preferred Gas Station.

The guy who works the night shift is a want to be bad ass. Refers to the customers as HOLMES!

Certainly the worst station I’ve been to and I’ve been to stations in four countries. Way high prices and forget Pay at the Pump; EVERY credit card, I was told, is on fraud alert. What a waste of time and an inconvenience. Customers deserve better treatment.

THE WORST service station in all of north county. First off, don’t bother bringing your car in at lunch, apparently the guy who works there «has too much things to do» and can’t work on your car — so much for a hard day’s work. And if you need a diagnostic to get your check engine light checked out, it’s a waste of his time… unless you want to spend a fortune, where most service centers have free diagnostic tests.
But if you’re looking to spend a fortune with terrible customer service and disrespectful employees… then by all means step right up. Otherwise, I’d suggest you try any service center BESIDES this shell station. You really shouldn’t expect much from a gas station, but if you’re paying a ton of money anyways, at least you can have friendly people that work there.

its a gas station… what else do you expect.

Extremely high prices or extremely low prices, you really never know what you are going to get at this place. And I mean this Shell station in particular. With AM-​PM gas, you know it is going to be cheap, you know you may be stabbed, buy you’ll open up your recently purchased Red Vines and enjoy some licorice as they load up your gurney into the ambulance. At Mobil, you know that a gallon of gas will be 25 cents higher than anywhere else, but the water in the squeegee bucket is Evian and the squeegee itself looks like it has been purchased within the last four years.
At this Shell however? Forget it. You want regularity, try dried fruits and Metamucil. This place takes delight in changing the price of gas by the minute, why wait for the closing bell to ring on Wall Street to finalize the price of a barrel of oil? Frankly, in the eyes of Palomar Shell, those people are called suckers.