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[*] posted on 9-11-2005 at 08:52 PM
Best and least favorite Pemex Stations


Least favorite: Catavina, because it's always closed. :fire:
Favorite: Catavina, when it is open and topped off..:lol:
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[*] posted on 9-11-2005 at 09:03 PM


No contest.
Least: Sta. Rosalia- most crooked.
Most: El Rosario- most honest.




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[*] posted on 9-11-2005 at 09:09 PM


I remember the days when you would say worse about the El Rosario station. Thank goodness for Baja Cactus !
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[*] posted on 9-11-2005 at 09:13 PM


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No contest.
Least: Sta. Rosalia- most crooked.
Most: El Rosario- most honest.


They sure shower you w/attention and smile plenty while ripping u off!
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[*] posted on 9-11-2005 at 09:25 PM


All the Pemex stations I've filled up at in Ensenada have been fine. The only problem I've had are the workers at the Sauzal station have give me a lower exchange rate than what was advertised. Good way to lose business.:rolleyes:
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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 07:45 AM


Sta. Rosalia takes the prize for the most blatent rip-offs. We make sure we don't have to fill up there anymore.
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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 08:50 AM


We have never stopped in Santa Rosalia because of all the bad press. The Pemex at Arumbura Plaza in San Jose ripped me off ONCE. I always watch to see if the pump is cero now at all the stations.

The best I have found is between San Jose and San Lucas at Cerro Colorado. There was a nomad who went around checking the pour, so to speak, and he found that this one's pumps were accurate. The people working there are very nice as well.




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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 12:47 PM


Best = Gurrero Negro (New one on the interstate)
El Rosario

Worst = Santa Rosalia




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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 05:58 PM


About a year ago I stopped at the first Pemex I came to in Mexicali after crossing the border, right side, southbound. I filled up the Hummer with diesel, saw the total charge, and inadvertantly counted out one more hundred-peso note than was required. The attendant gave it back to me with a lecture on paying more careful attention to money matters in Mexico. On that basis, I would have to count that Pemex in Mexicali as one of the best.
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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 06:01 PM


When's the last time anyone stopped at the pemex in Santa Rosalia?



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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 06:59 PM
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Yes el rosario is bad, but nothing compaired to the blatent rip off of customers in los barriles. That little pemex owned by the van wormers is there real cash cow, to heck with the hotels.
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[*] posted on 9-12-2005 at 08:03 PM


Santa rosalia!!! usually fill up in San Ignasio coming from Punta Abreojos to Rosalia for paper work. July- everyone empty. Had to stop at the rosalia Pemex and how ever careful I was still got ripped off for 100 pesos.
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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 12:03 AM


I must admit, I had to gas up in Santa Rosalia last week. I should have just dropped my pants and bent over. Please don't visualize.
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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 05:25 AM
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Sorry, in my post I mentioned el rosario as being bad, that is false. I should have said santa rosalia. Antonios pemex is very honest and they always want to wash my windows.
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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 05:53 AM


..but the restroom....one of the worst...sorry Antonio I know you don't use it...



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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 06:06 AM


I have to go with San Ignacio for the best. The guys there waited until I got out of my coach before even taking the gas cap off. Then they broke out a couple of long handled squeege's and attacked the windshield (on a coach like mine, normally the only time my windshield gets washed is when I do it, with a ladder).

When the fueling was over, they wiped off the area below the fill tube (even though they didn't spill any) and asked if I wanted the rest of the windows cleaned.

When I counted out the pesos, they counted them back to me again, just to make sure.

I can gauge within a couple of liters how much gas I need and they were within my estimate so I don't think the pump was rigged.

I was so impressed that I tipped them 50 pesos.




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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 07:44 AM


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..but the restroom....one of the worst...sorry Antonio I know you don't use it...


Must have been after a bus stop there?! Actually, new, larger bathrooms are already planned for the gas station. When Antonio saw a line for the women's, he went over and invited them to use the bathrooms at the motel... what a guy!




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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 08:04 AM


T & t: San Ignacio? Something must have changed. Are you sure you got the liters you paid for? Last B1K I also found them polite and helpful, but later I had to get a broken motor mount fixed and the mechanic complained of getting a short count there. Said Villa Jesus Maria was also crooked. Probably neither are AS crooked as Sta. Rosalia. I wonder if she was the patron saint of thieves?



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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 08:07 AM


...no david...

urinal has been taped up for SEVERAL months....no repairs...

it's just that the managers don't go in and LOOK!!!

It's the same here in businesses




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[*] posted on 9-13-2005 at 09:00 AM


I have driven 3 times to Los Barriles in the last 3 years and each time I got 18-19 MPG in my Astro. (One time with a 14' boat on top and a Quad inside.)

That is US miles and mexican gallons.

I could not have been cheated very much.

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