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Yep, it's not mentioned in the article but we actually air-up your tires and service them (if needed) as well through a recent partnership we made with Firestone. Depending on the market, we're also offering oil changes and other maintenance things too. Working on expanding these wider.

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So you're taking into account proper inflation(it differs, even per axle) for each make/model? How do you plan on changing things like oil when cars hoods are locked? Jacking up cars with alarms?

We let you set the PSI that you want your tires set to. We'll show your the factory default, but you can adjust it to whatever you'd like.

Don't want to share too much about oil changes yet, as we're still trying to figure out a lot of the details ourselves and are only testing this in a very limit scope right now.

What type of gas options are there? All Octane levels, Ethanol free? I actually go out of my way to find the latter.

We offer both regular (87 octane) and premium (91/93, depending on the market) grade. Not ethanol free but it is high quality ("top tier" in most markets).

Stocking racing gas would be awesome. (Sunoco SS100 is street legal in California, too.)

Yes actually we've gotten a surprising number of requests for this

Sounds like a niche that might work for you guys. I'm guessing the people who need that kind of fuel intersects nicely with "people who don't have time to fill up" and are willing to spend some extra money for convenience.

Plus there are very few stations which carry that fuel -- maybe 6 in the bay area.

Do this and charge extra - anyone wanting this won’t complain at the higher price.

> regular (87 octane) and premium (91/93)

Mid-grade (89) is just a mix of the two - it shouldn't be hard to implement.

Usually additives are added to premium which wouldn't be in mid-grade (not a huge cost difference, though). Usually this stuff gets mixed at the rack (along with ethanol, etc.), although there are older gas stations and cheaper stations which mix high and low on-site at the pump for medium.

> Usually additives are added to premium which wouldn't be in mid-grade

That's the perception (and they are happy for you to think that), but I don't believe it's actually true.

And in any case, if it is true, a mix would simply have a lower level of additives for midgrade and that seems right to me.

> although there are older gas stations and cheaper stations which mix high and low on-site at the pump for medium.

I'm almost 100% certain that almost all gas stations have just two storage tanks and the pump mixes them.

See: https://blog.gasbuddy.com/posts/Gasoline-pumping-from-the-st...

http://hyperbear.blogspot.com/2006/05/dirty-little-secret-ab...

Ah, it's apparently 90% have two tanks. The remaining 10% have 3 and have pre-mixed, because they had leftover tank from when they did leaded gas, and by doing this they don't need to upgrade the pumps. So it's probably old/cheap/un-upgraded stations which have 3 tanks.

In theory a drain plug could be designed that will allow draining the old oil and then filling the new from under the car. Changing the filter might be trickier, since not all filters are accessible from the underside (but most are).

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