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Websites for garages & mechanics that win the work.
Websites for garages and MOT centres, built around online booking - because the phone is engaged when the workshop is busy. From £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Your customers
How people actually choose a garage.
Garage customers split between the routine and the urgent. An MOT is a fixed annual deadline, known in advance, and booked by whoever makes booking easiest - this is the single most predictable recurring demand in any local trade. A breakdown or a warning light is urgent and phone-driven. Both groups share a deep suspicion of being overcharged for work they did not need, which is the defining trust problem of the motor trade. Transparency about pricing and about what was actually done matters more here than almost anywhere else.
When demand peaks. MOT demand follows registration plate cycles, with March and September consistently the busiest months.
The problem
What most garages & mechanics websites get wrong.
Garages take bookings by phone, and the phone goes unanswered because everyone is under a car. Customers ring the next garage. Online MOT booking removes that failure entirely and is the highest-return change a garage website can make. The second problem is that garages rarely publish any prices, which reinforces exactly the suspicion the trade suffers from - a published MOT price and standard servicing costs do a great deal to counter it.
What it has to do
The jobs a garage website is built for.
Online MOT booking
Predictable annual demand, and the phone is the bottleneck losing it.
Service booking
Higher value than an MOT and naturally bundled with it.
Build trust on price
Fear of being overcharged is the defining objection in the motor trade.
The pages we build for you
- Home
- Book an MOT, prices, opening hours.
- MOT testing
- Price, availability, what happens on a fail.
- Servicing
- Service levels with what each includes.
- Repairs and diagnostics
- Urgent work and warning lights.
- Prices
- A genuine differentiator in this trade.
- Book online
- Date and time selection without a phone call.
What moves the needle
- Online MOT and service booking with real availability
- The phone being engaged is the single biggest source of lost garage bookings.
- Published MOT and standard servicing prices
- Directly counters the trade’s reputation problem.
- A plain explanation of what happens if a car fails its MOT
- The most-asked question, and answering it builds trust before the visit.
- Courtesy car and while-you-wait availability stated
- Often the deciding practical factor.
- Prominent tap-to-call for breakdowns
- Urgent work is phone-driven and time-critical.
Trust signals we put on every page: MOT test station approval · Trade body membership · Published prices · Warranty on work carried out
Concept build
What a garage website could look like.
Carter Lane opens like a car launch rather than a garage. A dark coupé sits in a black studio, and every few seconds a soft headlight sweep travels along its body while the headlamp flickers on. Beneath it, the name runs in thin, ultra-wide Lexend Zetta capitals, like a car configurator.
The market, in real numbers
51,400
vehicle repair businesses registered across 377 UK local authorities.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 45200, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Birmingham | 715 |
| North Yorkshire | 600 |
| Somerset | 585 |
| Buckinghamshire | 570 |
| Cornwall | 545 |
| Leeds | 495 |
| Wiltshire | 480 |
| West Northamptonshire | 430 |
| Bradford | 410 |
| North Northamptonshire | 410 |
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
Questions
Garages & Mechanics: what people ask us
Can you add online booking?
Yes. Every plan includes a booking-request form, live-availability booking can be added to any plan (quoted on your call) and comes as standard on Pro, and we can connect whichever booking system suits your business rather than forcing you onto ours. For appointment businesses it is usually the highest-return feature on the site, because the phone going unanswered while you are working is a constant source of lost bookings.
Should I put my prices on my website?
Almost always yes. Hiding prices loses more enquiries than it protects, because people assume the worst and go to a competitor who publishes theirs. If your pricing genuinely varies, publish a range and explain in one sentence what moves it - that converts far better than "contact us for a quote".
How do I show customers I am a real, established business?
Put a real address, a landline, your registration numbers and your insurance details where they can be seen without hunting. In trades that suffer from doorstep operators, these ordinary details are the most persuasive content on your website, and most competitors leave them off.
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£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.