Pretty standard petrol station but has a cash point and also 24 hour shop…read more If you are there late they are usually happy to let you into the shop to have a look at what late night snacks you need...always a bonus as it can be difficult to know what they have in stock from the window! I can't pick what flavour crisps I want from five metres away!

There are three petrol stations very close to each other in this section of Shirley. Driving from…read moreShirley towards Sears Retail Park, first you come to the BP one, then the Shell one is on the other side of the road and there is a Salisbury's one just opposite. They are all usually the same price, but I do always look to the Shell and Sainsbury's ones as the BP one can sometimes be a penny more a litre. The Shell one is a bit smaller than the Salisbury's one and I usually avoid it when it is busy and go to Salisbury's as it is just that bit bigger so you are out quicker. Always worth looking at the price of those 2, if not all 3 before you fill up!

This petrol station is opposite the Sainsburys station but it is worth looking at this one because…read moreit is usually the same price and is not as busy as the Sainsburys.

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Situated between J3 and J4 of the M5, the signs for these motorway services are always a reassuring…read moresign that I am nearly home (if I'm travelling on the northbound carriageway that is). They offer a Burger King, Costa Coffee and WH Smiths on both sides, with the pleasing addition of an M&S and a (slightly less pleasing) Travelodge on the southbound services. Alas, there is no bridge to connect the north and south services. If you are travelling north and fancy a humus and carrot dipper for the road you are, quite frankly, screwed. Thankfully, there are petrol facilities on both sides They aren't exactly pretty, but who really cares about such fripperies when it comes to motorway services?

What can I say about a petrol station!? Well, a bit I think! This is situated on Constitution Hill…read morenear the JQ. It's in fact, the closet one to my flat and I can see it from there as well. If your coming down Constitution towards town, its on your right and you have to do a bit of a U-turn to get into it. There's four pumps and it gets really busy at rush hour through the traffic. I've only filled up here a few times, mostly when its an emergency. This is because one time they made me pay before I filled up, which I hated. I know it's perfectly within their right to do this, but there no sign telling me and I was just shouted at over the tannoy. There's a very little shop inside selling the essentials, though I'd avoid that if I were you. I brought milk here once and it was off even though it said it was within date. A car wash had also just opened here as well. I don't know exactly how it works as the fore-core is slightly small and it narrows at one end. It's quite cheap though, it says that currently (June 2015) it's £2.50 for a wash, which is not too bad at all.

This is always a busy petrol station as it is so close to the motorway and next to the largest of…read morethe Tesco stores in the area. The prices are in line with the cheapest prices you will find in the local area and I always go here when Tesco's have the special offer of spending over £50 in store and receiving a 5p off a litre of petrol voucher! You can also pay at the pump, which does make the process a bit quicker.

The garage is always busy the staff are friendly and helpful. The diesle and petrol is always a few…read morepence cheaper than other nearby garages.

friendly staff, really helpful. good prices although they used to be cheaper. would certainly…read morerecommend them. the place is a bit hard to find, which i'm sort of glad about as they might get too busy. usually you can sit and wait while they fit the tyres.

Fantastic service, reasonable prices, very honest about the work that needing doing we have used…read morethem for many years and have been very happy with the expertise and quality of work. We would recommend them to a friend and they were originally recommended to us by a friend.

A few months ago I went there for an MOT and left my car there in the morning and till about 4…read moreo'clock in the afternoon they had not called me. When I phoned them asking about what's the condition of my car and whether it'll pass the MOT test they told me they would have to replace a few car parts which they said would cost me and X amount of £. When I went over there to pick up my car after the parts had been replaced they had increased the asking price for the replaced car parts and they did not provide me with a receipt as to how much each part as well as the labour charges are worth. I confronted them about this which is why they changed the total price for the replaced car parts 2 more times which gave me the perception that they were making the price charges as they went along. I suppose they didn't have a fixed price list. Absolute waste of time and they've got no consideration for the customer.