Moraga Chevron Service Center

These guys will tell you that you need an oil change, even right after getting one somewhere else. Also, they sold me tires once and the quality was terrible. There are much better service options in Lamorinda, like the Valero a block away or California Star for german cars, in Lafayette.

I took my car here to get an oil change. Person was very nice but called me and told me I needed brakes and rotors. I told him I would wait on that. My car has brake sensors so I was suspicious. I took it to a brake mechanic I’ve used for many years and trust, and he said «you don’t need brakes. Not even close.»

We have had them work on all if our cars which range from BMW, Mercedes, Saab, Toyota, 68 bug, and even our Smart cars.
They are always fast. HONEST and VERY fair on prices.

Very friendly and polite staff. Went in for an oil change. Fair prices.

Came for a full service on my 03 mustang GT expecting to pay around $ 300 so they called me and said I needed 1,500 dollars of service. Well I decided to get a second opinion from a shop that my parents are more familiar with and just had them do an oil change. Well I drove it about a mile and my service engine light came and so I immediately turn back around and took it back to the shop. They had forgotten to put my oil cap back on and had disconnected one of my fuel injector valves and not reconnected them. They were VERY friendly but those are mistakes that shouldn’t be happening. Lesson learned about stopping somewhere where I don’t know the mechanics and I simply stopped because of a deal.

As my friends and family know, I am kind of a car geek. I love my Preludes, but I love all kinds of cars and am addicted to all those car shows on TV. While I love my cars and try to take good care of them, I had let some routine maintenance slide, partially because I moved to California and hadn’t found «the» place and partially with the move from Texas, I felt pretty poor for awhile.
Yesterday, I realized that my 2001 Prelude was in BAD need of a tune-​up and and an oil change. I have never used a gas station service department before for difficult stuff or diagnostics, I had always tried to find a Honda specialist, but the last one I went to in Walnut Creek were total shysters and charged me an unspeakable price for spark plug wires, so I had been holding back.
So this place is right near my house and a couple months ago, I asked them if they would do an oil change with my good synthetic oil and they didn’t blink, charged me a cheap price and were super nice. Hmmm. Then I started to notice that they always had some cool cars around the place, tucked in back and whatnot. Hmmmm. Old beat up rescued 60’s Porsche gutted and waiting for a restore, a sweet old caddy convertible, hey, is that an old Impala? Vintage pick up? Sweeeet. So, someone here actually really likes cars, I thought. Check.
So I brought my car in and started talking to Moe, the owner. He lit up when he saw my Prelude, and we started talking cars. OK, I REALLY like this guy now. He likes Preludes. He had a 3^rd gen and still remembers it. He thinks they are awesome. He genuinely likes cars and you can see he cares about them. I hand him the keys and let do whatever he suggested. ALL his suggestions were right on the money. Yes, I needed brakes. I knew that, sort of, but he showed me why and let me look at what was wrong. He poked around and found a bad hose and explained why it was bad — this is EXACTLY what I wanted! Someone who treats me like someone who loves my cars, who didn’t talk down to me, who was super reasonable. He found a hole in my radiator that would have caused me a disaster in a matter of days and went ahead and replaced it on a Saturday. How did he find this part on Saturday? When I came to pick up the car, he test drove it before he gave it to me and was grinning like a school kid. He said it totally made his day when he really fixes up a car and it drives totally different than when he gets it. He was right. With my new platinum plugs and fancy Japanese blue spark plug wires, new gaskets, front and back brakes, etc., etc., my car was happy! The price was more than reasonable. I don’t trust many mechanics. I trust Moe. Oh, and if you have a Honda Prelude, you should definitely come here!

Ebne helped me out with my car courteously and professionally. Would strongly consider using this service center in future aftermarket part installations that I can’t handle myself — as long as it’s Ebne working on the car.

I have been taking my car to Moe for oil change and maintainence services for over 10 years and so far I have had absolutely no problems. Guess what therefore Moraga Chevron Service Center gets 5 stars!

I have been taking 5 cars to Moe at Moraga Chevron over a period of 2 years, and have gotten an honest and thorough evaluation and reasonably-​priced fix every time. Our extended family needs repairs on a Mercedes, a Toyota, a BMW, a Saab and now a Smart car. I have compared his prices on all kinds of work, big and small, to local high-​end German car shops, foreign car specialist in Lafayette, and a moderate-​priced shop out in Concord. Moe will hunt around for lower-​priced options on expensive ball joints, and has given me reductions in labor costs on big jobs without any fuss. He knows his cars and he is interested in maintaining customers by fixing their cars for REASONABLE cost. I recommend him and his shop most highly.

This evening I was doing some service on my car and ran out of differential fluid when I was flushing the diff… I knew chances would be extremely slim of finding anywhere open locally at that would sell it, so I wandered from gas station to gas station hopelessly looking for some. Fortunately, I happened upon this Chevron. When I asked the cashier he looked at me quizzically and wanted to know what differential fluid was… He said they have stocks of fluids in the shop and we walked over. And to my luck, there it was — Redline High-​Performance 75W-​90 Differential fluid… Yes!
I can only assume this isn’t something they usually sell to retail customers as he couldn’t scan it in to the register. So he pulled out his iPhone and found the lowest price online and sold it to me at that price.
Awesome! I also noticed they had other fluids that meet common German car specs (Pentosin power steering fluid, etc) that are often difficult to find at run of the mill auto parts store. I can only assume they would be just as readily willing to sell these fluids to retail customers as well.
If I ever run out of supplies mid-​job again I’ll definitely be running to this Chevron!

STAY AWAY for car service! When we first moved here, we took our car here because it was close and we didn’t know any better. BIG mistake! They lied about a leak our car supposedly had. We didn’t have them fix this mysterious «leak» and have never had it leak since. The item we did have them take care of, they quoted us $ 300 and then charged us $ 700 when we came to pick it up. When we complained that was twice the quoted price, he said the $ 300 didn’t include labor and we didn’t sign the original quote so he claimed that we knew that. This place is a scam and I would avoid it if you can.

Clean bathrooms! *whew* *aaahhhh*