Bonnie Brae Conoco

My battery light went on in my ’05 Scion TC recently. I contacted a good year store downtown that gave me an estimate of nearly $ 500 for a new alternator. My boss recommended this Bonnie Brae Conoco as being very reasonably priced. I figured it was worth a shot and gave them a call. They estimated about $ 200 LESS than the other mechanic. I took it in, they were very laid back yet efficient, and my car was ready within a couple of hours. Thanks for saving me money and giving such great service!

Kenny is a godsend. I am so grateful for how hard they work and their quick service. Perfect gentlemen that value their customers and a job well done.

I have an extremely reliable 2004 Hyundai Accent, and thus have not had to do any maintenance work on the car since I bought it in 2010 with the exception of routine oil changes and the replacement of the shocks several years ago which my brother in law did for me.
Without ever needing work done on this car, this also means that I don’t have an auto mechanic in town. I needed my brakes replaced but didn’t want to randomly pick a name out of the phone book or go to Brakes Plus, where I knew they were going to price-​gouge me and try to up-​sell me additional work. Since this is the first time I’ve needed the brakes replaced since owning the car (almost 6 years) I have no idea whether the car just needs brake pads or rotors as well, and I didn’t feel I was going to get an honest response from Brakes Plus.
This garage came recommended by my boyfriend’s parents, who are neighbors with the owner. The shop is relatively close to my house. I dropped the car off at 8:30 on a Saturday morning, 30 minutes after they opened. They told me there were only 2 guys working that day so they didn’t have a specific ETA of finishing but told me they would at the latest have it finished by the end of the day. I also asked if they could take a look at the windshield wiper fluid reservoir since I was sure it had a crack. At 10:45, they called to tell me the car was ready, and that just the front brake pads needed replacing. They also re-​connected a hose to the reservoir tank — no crack, and thus no charge in having to replace the whole thing. The service was very reasonably priced — $ 153. The 2 men working were extremely polite, knowledgeable and professional. I will definitely be returning the next time I need work done.

greatest organization of people i have come across. customer since 2010. i don’t go anywhere else. had a coolant leak in my car. fixed it and charged my $ 11.00. These guys have charged me under $ 20 on at least five separate visits. Great people who are all about the neighborhood.

The Wilson Family are good peeps. Kenny is the most honest repair person I’ve known in my hood. Yeah their gas might be expensive, but their mechanics are solid, and their price for work are good too.
The place has a cool retro look as well.

My wife and I started taking our cars to Bonnie Brae Conoco shortly after we moved to Denver in 1996. Like the previous reviewer, we have been well-​served by the mechanics at Bonnie Brae for years. And, likewise, we’re so grateful to have found a garage that we can trust for good, honest service at a fair price.

Seriously the nicest, most professional, and helpful neighborhood garage I have ever found. These guys have saved me more than several times by always having speedy and priced appropriately repairs!
Now a days, I don’t know if people have garages or mechanics they trust and feel like are a part of the «family»… But I do and this place is it!

I can’t speak to the service or the mechanical work they do here, but if you just need gas, definitely go somewhere else… this place is SUPER expensive, sometimes as much as 60 cents more per gallon than elsewhere in the city. I don’t know how they justify charging people that much — I guess they just hope that people who live close by will come because its convenient and/​or because they won’t notice how much more they are charging. I live nearby and have to fill up here on occasion when I’ve let my tank get too low, and it always pisses me off.

Although I’ve never gassed up here, I’m a big fan of this place. It’s family owned, super convenient and decently priced for everyday car maintenance. I live right across the street; one time I had a dead battery, and the attendant walked across the street to jump my car for me, which was awesome! I ended up getting my battery replaced (it had never been replaced after 6+ years), oil changed, headlight replaced and maybe even wipers replaced. Since this was all last minute and I had never been there before I half expected the tab to be pretty big, but it was surprisingly much lower than I thought I think around $ 200 for all that. I’ll definitely be going back.

I think the only time I’ve experienced a full service gas station was in New Jersey, where you honest-​to-​God can’t legally pump your own gas. I mean, WHAT is up with that? But, apparently some people like this and probably prefer not having to get out of their cars. Ever.
So, when I pulled up to this Conoco on a whim (apparently going from ¼ to Empty in my car happens in a few minutes), I pulled into the bay with the Full Service sign. I thought it was a joke, but I hung out for a minute and waited until an attendant came out. I confirmed that it was indeed Full Service, which he informed me added $ 0.40 a gallon for them to pump it for me. I said no thank you, and went to the other bay.
He was polite, informative, and totally didn’t make me feel cheap for going with Self-​Service.
Yeah, gas is «expensive» (seriously though don’t get me started on this — if you can’t tell by the quotes, I think $ 30 to fill up my car to get my American-​driving-​ass all over creation is pretty darn reasonable and people should stop complaining about this when they pay ridiculous amounts of money for other things that don’t require as much effort to obtain), but if you’re going to complain about a few cents per gallon, then you probably should go somewhere else. Until then, you can enjoy this cute old-​fashioned-​style Conoco and get some good service.

Conoco branded fuel
30 cents higher than other local brands… nothing special about this place to warrant the expensive gas…

Terrible.
My clutch went out. 1990 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 4×4. Took it to these guys upon recommendation. A week later, the job is done and I go to pick it up. The cost is approximately $ 1,300. Great, I think. Probably a poor financial decision but at least I have a running truck now. Think again. The truck will not shift from first to second without extreme force, and a new grinding noise has appeared when shifting between all gears.
I call these guys up again and they tell me to bring it back in. The manager/​owner takes it for a spin and, upon his return, announces that there are no problems. Apparently I have been imagining the problem. He goes on to say that he can’t do anything for me because he can’t find any problems.
On the drive back home, the same problems are immediately obvious.
I call them up again, but they refuse to help me. Upon another recommendation, I take the truck to another shop that specializes in 4×4 repair. Pulling off the transmission reveals that this shop — Bonnie Brae Conoco — installed the clutch incorrectly, failing to tighten all necessary bolts, which has resulted in permanent and irreparable damage to the brand new clutch.
With this evidence in hand, I call Bonnie Brae up and receive the same brick wall treatment.
The truck is now history, and thanks to Bonnie Brae I am $ 1,300 poorer with nothing to show. Worst automobile repair experience of my life. Hindsight tells me I should have sued, but I’ll chalk this one up to a lesson learned. Potential clients beware.

It pains me to write this review because we have been going to Bonnie Brae Conoco for many years. However, my last experience has left me cold. After damaging (actually obliterating) the right front tire of my car last weekend I put on the little doughnut spare and «limped» to BB Conoco to see if they could repair/​replace my wounded tire.
The attendant confirmed that my tire was beyond repair that that it would need to be replaced. He then told me that my Pirelli P6 tires were «not very good» and that I should replace all four. Now, I’m not an expert about cars and tires, and I know that Pirelli’s are crappy tires for Denver driving (too high-​performance) but I know when I’m being played. First, my car is less than one year old and secondly it only has 4,500 hundred mile on it. Really — I should spend $ 800-​$ 1,000 to replace all four when three of them are practically new?
Once I pointed this out, he told me that he didn’t have a new Pirelli mach on hand but that he would check the list to see if they had a used tire in the right size (²²⁵⁄₄₅ R17). No, I told him, I don’t want a «used tire».
The manager then came out, looked at the tire and told me that he would not be able to find a match for the tire until Monday and I’d need to leave my car there. I told him that I only have one car and that I only live a few blocks away and could bring it back on Monday morning. He became down-​right rude at this point, telling me that he couldn’t do anything for me unless the car was on site and that if I needed something sooner I could check with DIscount Tire as they are local and carry Pirelli tires.
Here’s my favorite part — I asked if he would mind calling Discount to see if they had the right tire in stock. He said, No — you’ll need to do that yourself.
Now I know that going to another dealer would have taken the business from him, however I also know a bit about customer service. We’ve been a customer there for years — we even buy their gas even though it’s aways more expensive than other stations. So, all he needed to do was make a quick call (there was not one else at the station at the time) and I would have been happy. Instead he elected to treat me like a no-​nothing female and walk away.
Well, now I’m the one who is walking away.

Same family ownership since 1947.
Excellent service at reasonable prices.
Ordinary gasoline at high prices.