Websites for garages and motor engineers, built before you pay.
I build websites for independent garages and motor engineers in Worcestershire and across the UK. MOT and service pages, a booking form that starts with the reg, and your own reviews in full. I build yours first, finished, and you only pay if you want it: £650, or nothing.
£0 to see it finished
£650 if you want it live
Or WhatsApp me One message is enough to start.
I’m Archie Spencer. I build every site myself.
5.0 on Google from 4 reviews. Read our reviews on Google (opens in a new tab)
“Really made things easy for me as I’ve got not much experience on computers, but he sorted everything.”
Real sites, live now. Open any of them.
There is no garage among my live sites yet. That is why yours is built first: you judge your own site, not a promise. The nearest match is Luke Cross Plastering, a plasterer near Bridgwater: one page built from photos of his own jobs, with every one of his Google reviews on it, word for word, and his number at the top.
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Livelukecrossplastering.co.uk
Luke Cross Plastering
Plasterer, Bridgwater and Taunton
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Livepaularmstrongfitness.co.uk
Paul Armstrong Fitness
Personal trainer, Alcester
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Livemyheru.com
HERU
Building infrastructure, Bidford-on-Avon
“If you're a small business needing a website, I'd definitely recommend him.”
Read it in full
Brilliant website and great support throughout. Archie built a new website for my fitness business and I'm really pleased with it. It's clean, looks professional and is easy to find your way around, which is exactly what I wanted.
I'm not techy at all, but Archie helped me through the whole process and explained everything I needed to do in plain English. Nothing was too much trouble. If you're a small business needing a website, I'd definitely recommend him.
I’ll build it first. You decide after.
Tell me the garage name, the town, and what you test and repair. I send you three homepage designs within a day, then build the whole website in the one you pick, every page written, usually in about 2 days, and send you a link. Look at it in your own time, with whoever else has a say.
If you want it, it’s £650: a £162.50 deposit once you’re happy with the design, and the rest within 7 days of it going live. If you don’t, say so and it comes down. You pay nothing, and I won’t follow it up.
What is yours, and the small print
- Your domain (your web address, like yourbusiness.co.uk) is bought in your name, on your card. About £10 a year, paid to the company you buy it from, not to me. I send you a one-page guide to buying it.
- Every login is handed over in writing once it is paid for, and the hosting moves to an account in your name at no cost. Nothing is locked to me.
- No monthly fee unless you choose monthly care: £29 a month for up to five changes, stop any time.
- If you change your mind after saying yes, the 25% is kept for the work done. If I can’t get it live for a reason on my side, it comes back in full.
- You pay by bank transfer to the account named on the invoice. My bank details will never change by message.
What garages and motor engineers need from a website.
A booking request that starts with the registration
People sort the car out in the evening, and would rather not ring at nine in the morning to be told to ring back later. A reg box, what the car needs, a preferred day, and whether they are dropping it off, waiting, or want it collected: that is a booking request, and it arrives in your inbox with the reg already in it. The reg box can do one more thing: open that car’s MOT history on GOV.UK in a new tab, or carry the reg straight into the form. If you offer collection or a courtesy car, put them in the form too, because those are the two questions that otherwise come by phone.
MOT class, the fee and the retest, in writing
Say which classes you test. Class 7 matters most, because only a handful of stations in a town do vans and whoever has a Transit is searching for exactly that. Put up the legal maximum fee, and your own price if you publish one: most of your rivals publish nothing, so a price is an edge. Say what a retest costs and how long somebody has to bring the car back. An MOT price and a retest at no charge inside ten working days is the kind of line people act on rather than think about.
Opening hours that are right, and a line saying whether you are open now
A lot of the traffic arrives at teatime. A live line that says open now, closes at six, or closed, back at eight tomorrow, stops somebody ringing a locked workshop and, more to the point, stops them ringing the next garage instead. Say the weekend position outright rather than leaving it blank. The site can work it out in UK time and highlight today’s row in the hours table, and say what happens on a bank holiday.
Say what you can actually diagnose, and what you do before quoting
“Diagnostics” on its own means nothing to anybody. Name the makes you know inside out, and describe how you work: road test it, read the codes and the live data, prove the fault, then price it before anyone lifts a spanner. If you have put right somebody else’s misdiagnosis, that is the strongest thing you own, so give it a section of its own: what the other garage said it was, and what it turned out to be.
Where you are, where to leave the car, and how to find the unit
Unit number, the estate, what the sign looks like from the road, and where to park when they drop the keys off. Trading-estate garages are genuinely hard to find, and the business that had your unit before you may still be sitting on Google catching your searches, which is worth reporting as moved. Drawn maps instead of a Google embed mean the page sets no third-party cookies, so there is no consent banner sitting on top of your phone number.
Reviews and memberships with the real number attached
A widget showing five out of five from one review is worse than no widget. Put the total up and let people read the lot, dated, word for word, filterable by what the job was: honest, price, quick, second opinion, vans. Same with the schemes: the Good Garage Scheme, RMI, Trust My Garage, your MOT station number, each with the figure the scheme itself publishes.
What usually goes wrong.
Already got a website? Check your current one
I have read a lot of garage websites, and they are in a worse state than most trades.
No booking form anywhere, and no phone number in the header. Links that go nowhere: a contact link pointing at a dead staging server, the MOT and diagnostics links swapped over, a repairs page linking to wheel alignment. Page after page still saying VOSA instead of DVSA. Template text nobody ever replaced, so the home page slider says “Slide title”.
A layout that never adjusts to the width it is opened at, so somebody stood in a car park is pinching and dragging. A security warning in front of the whole site. A domain that has lapsed. And the one that costs the most: a Google profile with a pile of five-star reviews, linking to a holding page that says the website is coming soon.
Fair questions, answered plainly.
What garages and motor engineers ask before they get in touch, with straight answers.
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Fair questions
What should a garage website show first?
What you do, your opening hours with a line saying whether you are open now, where you are and how to find the unit, and how to book.
Can customers book online?
They can send a booking request that starts with the registration, what the car needs, a preferred day and whether they are dropping it off or waiting. It reaches you with the reg already in it.
Should a garage put its MOT price on the website?
Say which MOT classes you test, the legal maximum fee, your own price if you publish one, and what a retest costs and how long somebody has to bring the car back.
How much does a garage website cost?
£0 to see it. £650 for the website built and live on your own domain: £162.50 when you say yes and £487.50 within 7 days of it going live. Or £900 with a year of changes, up to five a month. A one-page website is £350.
How long does it take?
Three homepage designs within a day, then usually about 2 days to build. Then you look at it in your own time, before deciding anything. Once you say yes, it goes live within 3 working days of your last change, and within 14 days at most.
What’s the catch?
Here is everything it can cost you. If it’s a no, nothing. If it’s a yes, 25% to go ahead: it is kept if you change your mind before the site goes live, and refunded in full if I can’t get it live for a reason on my side. The rest is due within 7 days of it going live. Your domain is about £10 a year, paid by you. Changes after it goes live are £50 for up to five, unless you have the year of changes or monthly care, and you send them to me: there is no editor to log into. And nobody can promise you a place on Google, me included.
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Your business name, what you do and where. That is enough to start. I build it, send you the link, and it costs you nothing to see it.
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I reply within 24 hours. Within a day I send you three homepage designs. Pick one and I build the whole website, usually in about 2 days. Nothing is payable unless you want it.
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