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'StuckSucks' Reports: Puertecitos Pemex Closed!

David K - 4-26-2021 at 02:54 PM

Jim (aka 'StuckSucks') is equipped with a Garmin/ DeLorme inReach device...

We exchange data during our Baja trips... and just now, Jim texted me that the Pemex in Puertecitos is closed, pumps wrapped in cardboard. He messaged me from the turquoise mine road, Km. 176 south of Gonzaga.

[Edited on 4-26-2021 by David K]

advrider - 4-26-2021 at 06:00 PM

I think I've only seen it open one time that I can remember. Never wanted to count on it but it would have been a nice spot to stretch the mileage.

RFClark - 4-26-2021 at 07:04 PM

So Gonzaga is it until Jesus and Maria or the guys at the LA Bay turnoff!

The Puertecitos Station has been closed the last few times we've by!

willardguy - 4-26-2021 at 07:09 PM

like the gonzaga pemex you had to track down the operator that was rarely in ear shot to hopefully score some gasolina if you were lucky....before my time but a pretty cool old photo here:D

motoged - 4-26-2021 at 08:13 PM

Ah, the good ol' days are back.:biggrin:

AKgringo - 4-26-2021 at 08:22 PM

About five years ago, I pulled up to the station, but there was nobody there. I saw a couple of people working on a boat near there, asked them when the station would open, and one of them dropped what they were doing and went to get a guy to open up!

David K - 4-26-2021 at 08:59 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
So Gonzaga is it until Jesus and Maria or the guys at the LA Bay turnoff!

The Puertecitos Station has been closed the last few times we've by!


In Punta Prieta, gas is sold at the store on the north side of town.

The next Pemex station is Villa Jesus María.

RFClark - 4-26-2021 at 09:43 PM

David,

There are always 2 or 3 guys at the LA bay turnoff selling gas in plain sight. Signs and everything!

David K - 4-27-2021 at 08:58 AM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
David,

There are always 2 or 3 guys at the LA bay turnoff selling gas in plain sight. Signs and everything!


Yes, I know... I was adding another location I have bought gas at (very late at night, too).

mtgoat666 - 4-27-2021 at 09:04 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
David,

There are always 2 or 3 guys at the LA bay turnoff selling gas in plain sight. Signs and everything!


Yes, I know... I was adding another location I have bought gas at (very late at night, too).


Need a gas map!

JZ - 4-27-2021 at 09:15 AM

The only ones we count on being open are San Felipe and Guerrero Negro. Every thing else is iffy.

Even at BOLA make sure you get it when you arrive and don't wait until you leave.

David K - 4-27-2021 at 10:06 AM

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
David,

There are always 2 or 3 guys at the LA bay turnoff selling gas in plain sight. Signs and everything!


Yes, I know... I was adding another location I have bought gas at (very late at night, too).


Need a gas map!


You make one... go ahead!

KasloKid - 4-27-2021 at 10:32 AM

Baja rule: You see gas, you buy gas. I've paid the price for not heeding my own advice.....

dravnx - 4-27-2021 at 10:44 AM

Quote: Originally posted by willardguy  
like the gonzaga pemex you had to track down the operator that was rarely in ear shot to hopefully score some gasolina if you were lucky....before my time but a pretty cool old photo here:D


Bought gas from a pump like that on a trip to Laguna Hanson. I don't remember where it was but it was in the early 90's.

jamiec - 4-27-2021 at 11:07 AM

In addition to the places mentioned above, does anyone know if gas is sold by the barrel or otherwise in Santa Rosaliíta (Santa Rosalillita
)?

JZ - 4-27-2021 at 11:11 AM

Quote: Originally posted by jamiec  
In addition to the places mentioned above, does anyone know if gas is sold by the barrel or otherwise in Santa Rosaliíta (Santa Rosalillita
)?


It is.

mtgoat666 - 4-27-2021 at 11:23 AM

Quote: Originally posted by willardguy  
like the gonzaga pemex you had to track down the operator that was rarely in ear shot to hopefully score some gasolina if you were lucky....before my time but a pretty cool old photo here:D


I like the old-timey "visible" gas pumps -- these were not conducive to cheating by seller. I think pemex was unhappy with visible/graduated bowls on pumps, so they invented the "cheater" pump that dispense ISC liters (International Organization for Cheating) as opposed to ISO liters (International Organization for Standardization)

jamiec - 4-27-2021 at 11:24 AM

Quote: Originally posted by JZ  


It is.



Thanks, good to know.

David K - 4-27-2021 at 01:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by jamiec  
Quote: Originally posted by JZ  


It is.



Thanks, good to know.


I bought 5 gallons there in 2017. It is sold out of the shed behind the market. As at other places that sell gas independently, you just need to ask locals, it usually won't be advertised, and it should be for emergency if you can't get to a Pemex station. It will cost about a dollar or more per gallon over the Pemex price.

pacificobob - 4-28-2021 at 06:50 AM

like we say in aviation, "the only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire"

WestyWanderer - 4-29-2021 at 11:15 AM

Believe it or not, Clara had been pretty good this year with keeping the station open. She ran out maybe a week and a half ago and with the summer coming and most of the down vacating she will probably have a harder time keeping the tanks full until everyone returns in the winter. If the gates are open, they have gas. Juan takes his siesta from 1-3 so he closes the gates during that time. If you roll up during these hours and need gas, honk your horn or go up to the Puertecitos gate and ask for Juan and he usually will come running.

StuckSucks - 4-29-2021 at 04:26 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Jim texted me that the Pemex in Puertecitos is closed, pumps wrapped in cardboard.




del mar - 4-29-2021 at 05:48 PM

well that makes sense, ran dry a week and a half ago and covered the pumps a few days ago, maybe for the season?

Ateo - 4-29-2021 at 09:05 PM

That "Wayne" cardboard box in between the two black covered/out of service dispensers looks to me like a brand new dispenser inside. Wayne makes dispensers. Could the station be installing new dispensers soon? I doubt it, just speculating!!!!!!!

sredish - 5-2-2021 at 03:35 PM

they could've made some money at this last norra event. good thing both bola pemexs were open and rancho grande was well stocked. can't remember the last time i saw the puertocitos station open.

i have a gpx file that i add every pemex or gas stop when i come to it. it's growing little by little....

frenchtako - 5-3-2021 at 09:25 PM

Quote: Originally posted by sredish  
they could've made some money at this last norra event. good thing both bola pemexs were open and rancho grande was well stocked. can't remember the last time i saw the puertocitos station open.

i have a gpx file that i add every pemex or gas stop when i come to it. it's growing little by little....


Hi Sredish,
Is there a way for you to share this file?

Thanks

TLBaja79 - 5-4-2021 at 07:11 AM

Gonzaga Bay Pemex is also closed. As of late early Feb and late April. Don't rely on that one!

David K - 5-4-2021 at 07:37 AM

Interesting... it and Rancho Grande are owned by the Los Pinos Tomato people of San Quintín (who also own the new market and station at Cataviña... which is still not open, right?).

StuckSucks - 5-4-2021 at 09:03 AM

Quote: Originally posted by TLBaja79  
Gonzaga Bay Pemex is also closed. As of late early Feb and late April. Don't rely on that one!


I bought gas there a week ago, it was alive and well.

RFClark - 5-4-2021 at 09:12 AM

The Gonzaga PEMEX has been open every time we’ve been by. Most recently last Thursday. I asked at the store in Puertecitos about the PEMEX station. They knew nothing!

Looking at the pictures, Puertecitos only has 2 pumps to my recollection. A 3rd box with a pump in it implies new pumps?

[Edited on 5-4-2021 by RFClark]