Watertown Service

They’re friendly and get walk-​ins quickly in and out. They never try to upsell me. For $ 35 I get an oil change, air in tires and fluids topped off.

Was just there and asked for $ 20 regular. The guy at the pump said «$ 20?» and I said «Yes, $ 20.» So, imagine my surprise then as I was driving away and noticed that he FILLED my tank. Checking my account confirmed… $ 34. Why did he bother to confirm $ 20 when he didn’t do it? Intentional or not, keep your eyes open at this place.

These guys are great! I’ve gone to them numerous times for emergency tire replacements and they’ve always given me a fair price, they could have taken me to the cleaners, since it was an emergency but they didn’t. The service was super fast, no waiting at all, and on my way in 15 minutes!
Now I always fill up at the gas station, guys are real and down to earth, once one of them was a bit impatient when I parked too far from the pump; but it’s free service, you don’t have to leave your car, a great bonus in the freezing cold! I’m happy since I don’t require them to bow and scrape at my feet on top. The service is good, and the gas is the cheapest in the area, I will keep going as long as I live in nearby.

The man at the pump yelled at me because I accidentally popped my trunk rather than my gas cap (they are the same switch). He then proceeded to yell at me saying it took me too long to get my credit card out. And then he was mad that I asked for $ 15 dollars in gas. I also think he had a few explicatives under his breath. Not so nice! Won’t be giving them my business ever again!

These guys are the best. Honest, friendly service every time. I’ve been taking our cars here for years.

Called and asked if they had a spot for an oil change in the next 10 minutes. Mike said he would take care of it and 30 minutes later I’m in and out with no issue. Now this is your local corner service station, a little small, garage very close to the 3 waiting chairs, but it was a great experience. Mike was great. Now they didn’t do the «40 point check» like a jiffy lube would, but if you need someone to check your car and tell you to buy things you don’t need, go somewhere else. These guys are straight shooters and do what you ask and are good on price. Oil change was straight $ 30. And yes they do take cards. I’ve been going here for gas (full service at self service prices) but will now add their service into my cars care. Thanks guys!

Love this place! I have been coming here for a few years now to get my car serviced (brake work, leaks, oil changes, tires, etc). Mike is the main mechanic and is awesome! He is fair, honest and does great work. I highly, highly recommend.

They seem like honest people.
I get my safety inspections there and somehow it always passes. This may be too cynical, but some places it almost seems like they use the inspection to make things up to fix on your car. I feel like I don’t have to worry about that with them.
So I tried them recently for an exhaust problem. Very reasonable. Quoted $ 650 maximum for muffler and front pipe, plus tire rotation and oil change, came in slightly under. If you look up list prices you’ll see that’s in line and there’s not excessive labour cost in there. I’m not really clear on the charges, but I’m thinking they’re rolling all the labour together. A lot of places will break out the labour on the different jobs, so it would sum to a lot more. Also, it’s an old car pretty rusty underneath. He could easily have claimed the catalytic convert and/​or the pipe welded to it had to go, and I probably would have believed it, but they only fixed what was needed.
They did make a little slip up, though. It was still loud later (though I didn’t notice immediately afterwords). This turned out to be a missing hanger. But they handled it nicely. They showed me under the car how it was missing and didn’t charge labour to put it on. Everyone makes mistakes, eh? So I’d still recommend them.
They’re nice too, the mechanics inside. I know the station attendents aren’t the most talkative (but not rude I don’t think), but they’re friendly inside.

My car broke down on Galen St. around the corner. These guys fixed it in a couple hours. Turned out it was a broken serpentine belt. They quoted me a reasonable $ 120, and stuck with that price.

This review is only regarding their full service gas pumping, as I have another go-​to for my car services. This is my favorite place for gas in my neighborhood. It’s full-​service gas but at self-​serve prices. And there’s no price difference between cash and credit!
Service isn’t unfriendly, but also not overly friendly. But I like this as I don’t necessarily need the guy pumping my gas to ask me how my life is going. Often when getting gas I’m on my way somewhere and on a schedule, or on my way home and just want to get home and relax. They say hello, thank you, and have a nice day. That’s all I need for this kind of thing.

I love this place. Low cost for the area, friendly full-​serve, state emissions/​inspection past business hours, and they are always willing to look at my car and tell me nothing’s wrong, or fix it when there is. They are very friendly and although I can’t be sure, I never feel like they’re over charging me or telling me something’s broken when it isn’t. They don’t charge for me being stupid, either — one time I went in because I heard a scraping noise and the very friendly man looked under my car and pulled out a branch. No charge! No eye-​rolling either.
They don’t charge extra for credit cards and they are prompt when they tell you how long a repair is going to be. I don’t give many 5-​star reviews, but these guys definitely deserve it.

I like that in this extreme heat I do not have to get out of my car and pump gas.
Greeted with a smile today even thoughthe gas attendant must have been boiling in this humid heavy air.
Cheapest in town on top of it all and they give inspections!!!

If you wanted to be treated poorly, and like rude employees, then this is your place. And this was just for a car inspection.

This place is the best place to get your state inspection done.
No nonsense (like need new windshield wipers), fast service, and they take credit cards.

had an overheating car on memorial day. they could have scalped me, but instead fast, friendly, fixed.

This place is great — they have some of the cheapest gas prices around and it’s full service! This is the only gas station I go to if I can help it. As for their service, I took my car there for an inspection last year and they were quick and friendly, so no complaints there. The only downside is the location — since they’re on the fork between Rt-​16 and California Street right outside Watertown Square it can get pretty congested during rush hour, making it difficult to pull in/​out.

I go there for the gas, not the service, so I can’t rate that portion of their business. But this little station parked right in the middle of a fork in the road generally has the lowest price for regular gas between Watertown and I-​95.
If you’re driving to Newton and need gas, this is like the «last chance» gas station to fill your tank at a competitive price, because once you start driving westward the prices jump 10 cents or more per gallon.
It’s full-​serve and open until midnight, and those guys are outside pumping gas the entire time, snow, rain or shine. You may need to be patient during rush hour or on weekends though as there is usually a line (not too long). You will also need creative driving skills on occasion to wedge your car into an open pump space. But the price is usually worth the little extra stress.