Costco Gas

Rules for a good experience at Costco Gasoline:
1) Don’t judge a book by its cover. Looks aren’t everything when it comes to the long lines. Lines go much faster with the expanded pumps they put in a couple years ago.
2) Come early morning (before 8AM) or late night (after 8PM) if you don’t want to wait in the line
3) Drive to the shortest lane. The pumps have cables that can reach the far side of your car.
4) Don’t dawdle. Have your Costco ID card and payment card ready. There’s a fat line behind you and the glares intensify the longer you yak on your phone or fumble with your wallet.
5) Avoid any day there’s an event at Qualcomm Stadium. You’ll hit a ton of event traffic and be in a bad mood BEFORE you reach the Costco gasoline line.
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Also Costco gas is top-​tier. Stop listening to the rumors it’s crap gas. See here:
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The lines here are normally backed up in the street and there is rarely any method to the madness unless they have someone out there directing people.
They do tend to move quickly as Costco has some serious heavy duty pumps to keep the time spent at the pump at a minimum. They always always have the best price and have really great quality gas.
Keep an eye out on the very far right pumps, they move fast and are sometimes the shortest line.
All over a great place to get gas!

Costco gas… I’ve always had a membership card but to be quite honest I’ve only fueled as much as one hand can count. Why? Mostly because around my area the gas prices from Arco match those of Cotsco is close enough to where waiting what seems like an eternity isn’t worth it. I’ll all about saving money but saving an extra .10 cents per gallon which is about $ 50 – 60 dollars for me per year is going to be based on convenience for me. I’ve seen people drive across miles and miles just to get Costco gas, with all due respect I ask myself sometimes … Is it worth it? It’s all relative but here are some great tips I’ve learned from the handful of times I’ve pumped it up at Costco Gas!
1. The fuel lines is super long. Reaches both sides so either side is fine !!!
2. Really easy to pump gas. Yes you do need a membership card or Costco Cash Card to put in to confirm you are a member. After, it will ask you to put in a card. Must be debit, cash card, or Costco Credit.
3. There is at least one fuel attendant on the island. They help you answer questions, direct traffic and clean up mess on the gas island
4. There is an eye wash station on site if
needed
5. Once you exit, it’s left straight or right. There is no through traffic heading to you. The lane is yours.
6. Two TOP TIER gases — 87 and 89. Both grades are top tier and the owners manuals of these car manufacturers recommend TOP TIER (intro from the Costco website)
BMW, including Mini Cooper and Rolls-​Royce
General Motors, including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC
Honda, including Acura
Toyota, including Lexus and Scion
Volkswagen/​Audi, including Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bentley
Mercedes-​Benz, including Smart
Overall, prices are about 10 – 15 cents cheaper. Mornings are easy with no lines, weekends at all times expect to wait 5 – 10 ish minutes. They open at 530 am.
Happy pumping … ;)

Always a line but go at old people times and never have to wait.
(Before you’re offended I am old people)

You can never go wrong with Costco has. I’ve been using it in all my cars for over 10 years now. Never had any engine issues. They have great prices and are usually cheaper than any other gas stations around them. Get a Costco membership and you will save on gas prices! Well worth the membership

Sure, I give this review 5 stars, but it doesn’t necessarily mean this place is perfect. Just comparably better than other locations. Mainly because they added more pumps. So, rather than two pumps in use per lane, there are three (except for the left 2).
The gas here has among the cheapest rates in the entire county (behind the H Street location down in Chula Vista).
If you want to expedite your gas trip here or any location, here’s what you do:
— Look ahead for empty stations, even if the «back» (and/​or middle) station is still in use. The passage lane is there so that you don’t have to wait for everybody to finish before you drive up to them.
— Open your gas cover/​cap the moment you get out of the car
— Swipe membership card (or Costco-​sanctioned credit card)
— Swipe payment card at prompt (if it is not a Costco-​sanctioned credit card)
— Enter PIN number at prompt
— Decide if you want a receipt or not.
— Lift pump at prompt, followed by selection of grade
— Upon finishing, return pump
— Close gas cap
— Take receipt
— Leave
Some people tend to take super long simply because they forget that directions need to be followed, or they moved here fresh from New Jersey, where they don’t pump their own gas.
There’s a tendency for cars to stop their big butts at the very entrance in order to take their sweet time choosing which lane might be the fastest/​shortest, which really doesn’t matter because they all eventually move through sooner or later. And it’s debatable whether that blockage is a good or bad move, but I find it hilarious that the line for the left 2 lanes ends up being so long that it blocks passage to all other lanes which have more pumps and move faster. All the while, there’s a line that extends all the way to the intersection and even blocks traffic over there.
I like that there are more pumps. I don’t like that other cars are afraid to fill in all that space in the other lanes. Allow up to 30 minutes to get your gas from here.

I love Costco Gas! It’s especially nice to have cheaper prices than other gas stations like Shell or Chevron when the gas prices go up. It can make a pretty big difference depending on how big your tank is and how often you fill up.
I like this location a lot better than the Costco Gas in Carmel Mountain. There are 3 spots available in most of the lanes, so the lines seem to move faster. People don’t always move to the very front, but that’s possible in any location. The only bad thing I can think of is that you can only enter in one way, so if you happen to shop at Ikea or enter in from the other side, you have to come back out to get into the right lane to get to the gas station.

Dear Costco. Close your street entry to gas on Northside drive and reroute your gas queue around your back alley. You block traffic to my local sushi place. Go somewhere else for gas. Sigh.

Costco almost always has the cheapest gas. There were a few times I’ve seen has with similar prices but it usually beats other gas stations by 10 – 50 cents.
The lines are always long but they have multiple lanes. Also, their gas cables are long so you don’t have to wait in a line with the gas on the same side as your gas tank. I usually find a lane that’s quicker with the gas on the opposite side of my tank.
Don’t forget your Costco card though! This is required to even get gas here. If you don’t have one, bring a friend that does. It’s worth it!

Costco seems to have the cheapest gas in San Diego. The Friars Rd locations has one of the best set ups for their gas station. It always looks like a long wait but once you make it into the gas station it is very quick. All rows of pumps with the exception of the fist two have 3 pumps so the line moves very quickly. The pumps have extra long hoses so you can pull up to any pump. They also have multiple attendants directing traffic so no one can hold up the lines.

I love cheap gas, who doesn’t right? There are catches though. Following current Costco policy, Visa/​Mastercard are currently not accepted. Just Amex, Costco gc and debit cards. Next year Costco will drop Amex and will accept Visa as credit carrier (yayers). Lines here are long, especially on weekends. People need a heads up that the gas pump nozzles can extend to either side of the car so no worry if you don’t get the side your gas door is on. Gas attendants here are helpful. Today the flow of my gas pump nozzle was not working efficiently and had to have a bit of assistance. After some troubleshooting, I thanked the gas attendant and told him that I’m too young to have this flow problems at this time. He busted out laughing and told me that I made his day.

Had the misfortune of coming here today, friday before a long three day weekend right at about rush hour, my bad. To say the traffic just to pull into the shopping center from friars rd. eastbound is terrible is an understatement. Is all this aggravation worth saving about 40 cent a gallon? Yes, yes it is. The chariot was running on e and I was already there so… f it. Ther we was literally a guy directing traffic onto the lines. Guess what people? The hose extends to reach you gas tank, REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE IT IS ON!

Long lines
Old white racist working at this location telling Asians to keep quiet at this location. Apparently if your old and White it is OK to cut in front of everyone else. Yet speak up about it, stand up for everyone that cutter disrespected, and be Asian, and your suppose to shut up?
Never going here again. Rather drive further to another location than return here.

Costco is the choicest place to get gas! Gasoline, I meant to say rather. The lines may be long, but the prices cannot be beat!
Usually 20 – 30 cents cheaper than non-​club stations.
They recently added a pump for each lane, which helped shrink lines.
Try not to go during peak hours. Whatever those are.

Long lines at all times but this location has the three pumps per lane so the lanes move pretty quickly.

I la la la loooooove costco gas!
It’s always guaranteed to be cheaper than 95% of the other gas stations.
And I’m so glad that they built third pumps into each lane so that the wait time isn’t too long! Most of the time if you go during after work hours, it gets pretty crowded, but its really not that bad of a wait.
People always think that costco gas must be shitty gas because its so cheap, but if you really think about it, all gas that are sold has to meet specific standards in order to be used. The only reason why other places might be more expensive than other gas stations is because of the additives that they add into the gas to make it better!
Personally I have no problem with Costco Gas and hooray for their prices!
I only wish that there were more locations!!!

You need to have a Costco Membership to fill up here!
I love the convenience of coming to Costco Gas because I literally live right across the street! Another great deal about coming here is that the price is usually the cheapest in San Diego that I have seen, even though I have the opportunity to fill up at the Navy Exchange Gas stations. It does get terribly busy, but if you go really early in the morning or late at night, you are good to go! They do the best that they can in managing the traffic in and out of there!
As far as the quality of gas, I have not noticed anything good or bad, but I have to say that when you fill up, you actually fill up your tank, unlike a lot of other gas stations which shuts off a little too early.

They just finished up their remodeling of adding more pumps. You would think it would be faster, more efficient… not exactly. So they added 3 additional pumps, creating 6 more stations. The very first pump didn’t get an addition because of the underground tank location.
I do like this location very much, cause it literally is in the middle of my commute to and from work. Don’t get me wrong it’s extremely convenient, but always ridiculously packed. Now that there 3 pump stations… havoc occasionally insues… the assumption is that when one car is done, the next in line is to fill that spot. Only in a prefect world. So madness happens when line jumping begins!
It gets a bit crazy if you are not paying attending and just patiently waiting for the car in front of you to move forward. But it’s not a smooth flow of cars filing up within their own lane. Big cars hinder being able to see in front of them, some cars take longer/​shorter to fill up. So there could be 1 even 2 pumps empty because the #3 car is huge and the next person can’t see the open pumps. Whatever the reason, there are always the ones that just want to get their gas as fast as they can and go… so out of no where from a completely different lane you get cars diving out of lines to jump to the pump. Honking, cars in disarray, Crazy! You used to only see the attendant come out to assist with issues. Forgotten card, no printer paper… now he’s directing the flow of traffic to the pumps. I feel bad for the guy, because his job is now traffic control, but hopefully, it will help keep things calm at this location.

What can I say about Costco gas? The product is great, the price is great, and the help is helpful. Better than any other place around.
Gasoline prices fluctuate constantly, but Costco almost always has the best price in the area. I have noticed that prices vary from warehouse to warehouse, but this appears to be a product of when the bulk gas was purchased and how much the warehouse had to pay for it at the time.
My only complaint (if you want to call it that) is that the lines can be long. Everybody loves to save money! As others have suggested, it is best to come early or late. If you are there at the right time, you can always drive right up to the pump and be in and out in just a few minutes.

Always a treat to my wallet when I come to the MV Costco gas station! The gas is cheap and great quality (so I have heard). The lines can get long, which is a little annoying bc you may find yourself stopped on the right lane in the street for a while.
Tip: try to go right before Costco gas station closes, never a line!