Montpelier Shell

Easy access from 197 hwy. Higher than other surrounding stations, clean and not too busy when I get gas from here.

WORST PLACE EVER!!! I hate when people rip me off. I know I am a woman and may not know much about cars but thats no reason to rip anyone off. I brought my car here because my serpentine belt popped off and this was the closest place before my car shut off. Well, Mike Miles (the only mechanic there) told me «if there is nothing wrong with the belt [he’d] use it.» Well he calls me to let me know he needs to replace the tensioner, pulley, and belt and it will coast me $ 271 which sounded like a hell of a lot! I go to pick up my car and he tells me there was nothing wrong with the belt or tensioner but theses two things usually have problems so he’d replace it now so I won’t come back in the future. Needless to say I didn’t need either part. My motto is if it aint broke don’t fix it! He was an ass and didn’t give me my money back or put the perfectly fine parts back on my car!

So, I stopped here to get some gas on my way home from OBX today. The bathroom was pretty clean and the food/​drink/​snacks selection was not bad.
$ 5 credit card minimum purchase. Merchants don’t seem to realize that this? This is a violation of their merchant agreement with Visa/​MasterCard. It is also my pet peeve. Stupid gas station.