Carolyn Gehrke Chevron

Needed to get a smog check and this was the closest place to me. They were able to help me right away and were pretty quick and affordable. My only complaint would be they don’t have a waiting area so I pretty much just stood outside but everyone was nice and very helpful. Definitely would recommended them for smog checks.

Julio and his team are great. This is the only place we’d take our cars for repair. They go out of their way to get the job done for a fair price. Julio is conscientious beyond the call of duty. Their repair service is a huge asset to the neighborhood. We highly recommend them when your car, old or new, needs repair.
Thanks again, Julio, for all the extra effort.

Just got back from getting my Run Tire Flat rear tire patch repaired. The service guys are terrific and very knowledgeable. I was informed by my Mini Dealer that I needed to replace my RFT with a brand new one. A nail was embedded in between the treads and unable to fix. Well, I didn’t have the additional spending money for a tire that is only 4 months old to be replaced. A brand new tire was going to cost me $ 300.00. So I dd some research on the web and called around. I checked out this place and the reviews. I spoke with Jose and he gave me a fair price $ 49.99. The going rate around tire service centers $ 45-​$ 50. Some places like Discount Tires and Pep Boys didn’t want to repair for liability issue. Jose walked me through the process and allowed me to be engaged by watching the entire repair procedure. I walked away feeling really confident and secure that this place did an awesome job. I highly recommend this place for tire repairs. Please don’t let dealers sucker you into buying a new RFT. I saved $ 250 by doing some research!

pretty terrible they try to get you to pay for all these types of inspections and take your money up front before they even are willing to give you an estimate on work

Stellar station. New gas dispensers. Has full service island. Great staff and a great owner. Always clean bathrooms.
Julio runs the repair shop. He’s a kind and honest guy. I would trust him with my vehicle.
Edgar and Ernesto give great customer service.

Love this place and it’s so convenient to home and work. Realized I needed an oil change, called and Julio said «if you can get it here in 10 minutes I can do it right now», and they did. No hard sales, no gimmicks, fast, friendly and honest service. Also, they are right on par price wise with other independent mechanics, in other words their prices are reasonable.

Drive home from a party 2am. My car just stopped steering and I was lucky to be close to this Chevron. I left it overnight there and took a cab home. When I woke up they had diagnosed it and I had my car fixed already 1pm. It was a weekend a no way The Mercedes dealer would have had it ready for days. I saved 50% at least. Original parts and just $ 100 in labor *

BEWARE OF THIS PLACE, THEY’LL CALL THE COPS WHEN THEY SCREW UP!
Where to start. I brought my car in here to get it’s first service done and talked to the maintenance person to confirm what I needed and to make sure they had the proper oil for my car (leased car with very specific maint requirements). The nice gentlemen tells me he’ll give me a call in a few hours when it’s done.
Skip ahead 6 hours when I decide to walk over without a phone call. The car is done and the maint shop is closed. The guys working the front hand me the receipt and ask me to sign. When I look at the receipt it shows the type of oil used for the oil change. Guess what? Wrong oil! So I tell the guy that I’ll pay for all the services except for the oil change that they had done incorrectly. He stated that there’s nothing he can do about it and I had to pay for the oil change. I said no thanks, you can charge me for what you guys did but not for what what you messed up. This went on back and forth until he finally said to give the keys back. I said absolutely not!
Next thing he says «I’m calling the cops». I laughed and said I didn’t mind waiting for them to arrive but I recommended he call his manager since that’s likely to be the person to solve this problem anyway. After he got ahold of his manager he had me speak with him. The manager said the oil in the car was correct but the paperwork was incorrect. I had him change the paperwork even though i’m sure they put the incorrect oil in and just lied to me about it but I was done with the entire situation. I’ve never had anyone threaten to call the cops on me and I didn’t appreciate it when I made no attempt to leave without paying. I simply refuse to pay for something they did incorrectly. It’s unfortunate because this place is very close to my house too.

I received a dreaded Fail for my smog check from another location and went through the CAP program to have my repairs fixed. I brought my car here and they really did their best to keep the price as low as possible. They ended up saving me $ 100 from the original quote which I really appreciated. They worked as efficiently as possible and I would definitely go back.

I have been going to this station for 13 years. I also use the head mechanic Julio, let me tell you he is so honest it makes it such a pleasure to give them my business.
I trust him to the fullest. Thank you Julio for everything.

Came here to get my car charged. The mechanic squeezed me in right before they had to close, really sweet man. Very helpful. Also, great place to get gas if you need gas. The little store doesn’t serve magazines but that’s ok!

I was referred to this Chevron after my car failed its smog check. I dropped of my car on a Sat morning at 8 am and asked them to call me before doing any repairs over $ 100. They called me at 12:00 to inform me my car was ready. I expected (like most places) that they had done the repairs anyway or that I would have to wait an additional week for parts, etc. To my surprise, my car was done and only cost $ 101. They told me to come back Monday to ensure my car would pass the smog test so that I wouldn’t have to pay only to possibly fail again. When I arrived on Monday, he tested my car right away and said that the light came back on and that it would fail. He spent the next 4 hours with my car and only charged me the amount to replace a broken hose and nothing else. He said my car was ready to be taken back for the smog test and as promised, it passed! They made what would have been a far more time consuming and expensive hassle, easy and very cost efficient. I would highly recommend them to anyone. The service was wonderful and the cost was minimal!

Over the last twenty years living in the neighborhood of the Chevron gas station on Holloway I have visited the service station numerous times and never liked either their attitude nor their work provided. Lastly, I spend a good portion on money to rotate tires only to be explained their would be surcharge for balancing??? — Costumers had specifically requested such service… — four times I returned expressing that the tires were wobbling dangerously when driving over 40 miles and when one of the tires even burst and they had to exchange it again, the still did not check if the alignment was okay or even test drove it: the explanation was that there is no freeway near by to check it out… My cost for this experience was over $ 800 and the problem persists. I did however pointed out that friends had suggested other elements should be checked — but this garage never gave me a written statement that they did serviced such promised check-​up…
I bickered beyond my personality trying to be stubborn about the incorrect responses until they agreed to a free alignment.
Last week I returned, after my car stalled on Holloway; not that I would have ever gone back to those questionable mechanics, but irony of circumstances had it — I rolled to their garage. This time in presents of a friend they quickly expressed I needed to change the alternator; it did not charge the battery any longer. I left the car in their service station for three days and when I picked it up it stalled the next day again. We called and expressed they should at least tow us back and check why their service was insufficient. They refused rudely. After we returned the vehicle they agreed to «check it out and call back…» No follow up call for another two days… When I called today an employee explained that my car was being road-tested…I should call back later — I requested if they kindly would call me? An hour later a mechanic explained I needed a new battery; it did not hold the charges. I pondered if that might had been the original problem causing this mechanic to respond hostile: expressing agitated — this was a new problem. I pressured why they did not check after charging me for a new alternator — if the battery had been fully charged as he said they did… I reckoned: «If the battery can’t hold the charge, surely testing this a few hours later would simply proof this…» Now the mechanic responded that I was a difficult client and did not understood their service methods: I should pick up my car and hung up on me.
I certainly will file a complaint with BBB and request that I am fairly serviced as I paid for a specific correction and did not receive fair service. I now hear only awful stories from my neighbors; we live within blocks from that Garage and certainly none of us will even purchase gas there…

I am a regular customer of this shop, and also a straight person who not only supports, but has marched publicly for, the rights of my gay neighbors, so when I read the review from Joshua R. I was very surprised, because I have never heard the staff at this establishment (which is now called La Cienega Chevron) treat any customer with anything but total respect.
So, I have just called them about this. The person I spoke to did not know about the review, and assured me that they would fire any employee who would treat a customer in such a manner. He also, after reflecting, said that a few months ago there had been a customer who got into an altercation with another customer, and they nearly called the police regarding it, and that perhaps that is what Joshua had heard.
Anyway, my own assumption is that Joshua R. mistakenly thought that another customer who made these remarks was an employee of the station.
You can see my review of the station from a few years back under my reviews (for some reason a duplicate listing with the same name, Carolyn Gehrke Chevron). I’ve been going to this station for many years, and believe me, they are not homophobic jerks.

I will NEVER buy fuel or even a candy bar from this «full» service station again. They should be a little more sensitive to the fact that they are in a city that identifies as at least ¹⁄₃ gay. I saw a service station employee yelling at a customer that was driving away and calling him a «piece of sh*t fa*g*t.» I don’t care what happened before I saw that, the language was inexcusable and they won’t be getting any of my or my friends’ business again.