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# Petrol Stations: not good for drivers
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/07/petrol_stations/
- Published: 2006-07-25T19:38:28.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:25:37.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: BP, commuting, driving, garages, halfords, petrol station

![BP Garage, Sutton](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2006/07/0706bp.jpg?resize=250%2C188 "BP Garage, Sutton")You know, lovely as it to be able to get a great sandwich or a cup of coffee in a garage, sometime you just want something to clean your windscreen with. And these new convenience store-style operations make that really, really hard.

I needed some screen wipes to help cleanse my car of the shattered corpses of dozens of insects that were just too slow. Could I find them? No. Eventually I broke down and asked a member of staff for some held, and he pointed me to a tiny shelving unit hidden away by the tills. And there it was: a small selection of driving paraphernalia, including engine oil and screen wipes.

If petrol stations have stopped selling this stuff, where do people buy it? Do they all go to [Halfords](http://www.halfords.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Halfords")? Or do they just leave it to the car wash and the guy that services the car?

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