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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 09:04 AM
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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 09:08 AM


Is that Pemex the one at Puertecitos?



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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 09:11 AM


Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Is that Pemex the one at Puertecitos?


It is, but from 2015.
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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 09:18 AM


Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks  
Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Is that Pemex the one at Puertecitos?


It is, but from 2015.


I knew it looked familiar. I first stopped there in 2014!




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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 01:55 PM


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I knew it looked familiar. I first stopped there in 2014!


You're probably more familiar with its look these days.

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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 02:52 PM


We first drove to Puertecitos in '78 on what is now called the "old road" -- pavement did not exist. I remember you had to get the guy out of the bar to come fire up the gas pump. If my brain cell remembers correctly, it was a stand-alone lawn mower engine which powered the pump.

At the time, the road south of Puertecitos was bone fide 4x4, no nonsense.
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[*] posted on 6-1-2025 at 11:58 PM


Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks  
You're probably more familiar with its look these days.


Hah, yes! That place looks uncanny with actual cars filling up.

Here are some more photos of it in it's usual closed-up state: 2001, and 2009:


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[*] posted on 6-2-2025 at 06:43 AM


Well OK....the spam was deleted and the thread was kept alive. In all fairness to me though, I would like to point out that the Pemex photo did not have "Puertectos Pemex" title over it when I made my post!

Buying fuel there is still a gamble. Just a couple of trips ago I showed up there low on fuel and had to wait for someone to come over and open up the station.

I don't remember if it was a tienda or a cocina that was across from the station, but they got someone to come over and open up for me. It might have been about lunch/siesta time!

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[*] posted on 6-2-2025 at 07:44 AM


I last bought fuel there in March 2017.



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[*] posted on 6-2-2025 at 08:17 AM


Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Well OK....the spam was deleted and the thread was kept alive. In all fairness to me though, I would like to point out that the Pemex photo did not have "Puertectos Pemex" title over it when I made my post!

Buying fuel there is still a gamble. Just a couple of trips ago I showed up there low on fuel and had to wait for someone to come over and open up the station.


I am amazed that Pemex station can stay in business. It is so often closed that most travelers plan their trips around buying fuel elsewhere (at stations that are reliably open), so their customer base must be just a very few random uninformed people that happen across the station on the rare days it is open...




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[*] posted on 6-2-2025 at 08:25 AM


Their regular customers are probably buying gasoline for the boats in the port. They would know how, and when they could get the pumps open.

I recently did a search about Isla Cedros on the pacific side. There can't be a whole lot car traffic in that village, but there are apparently four gas station's there!

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