Websites for mobile mechanics.
I'm Huw. I build sites for mobile mechanics and other small businesses around Bridgend and South Wales. I can help acquire and setup your domain, the hosting and your custom email.
It's just me, so you deal with the same person the whole way through.
For most sites I build, there's no ongoing monthly cost once it's live, that includes no hosting cost. You'll see some other agencies charge a monthly ongoing fee to keep your site live, with me, you only pay when you actually need something.
I'm in Bridgend, working across South Wales and remotely anywhere in the UK.
What your customers type
The searches worth turning up for. Each one wants something slightly different from the page it lands on.
- how much does a car service cost
- interim vs full service
- what does an MOT check
- engine management light meaning
- how much are brake pads fitted
- cambelt change cost
- how long does a car service take
- can a mobile mechanic do an MOT
- pre MOT check South Wales
- mobile mechanic near me
- car won't start mobile mechanic
- MOT failure repairs Maesteg
Half of it is people pricing up a job
“How much does a car service cost”, “interim vs full service”, “how much are brake pads fitted”, “cambelt change cost”. That’s somebody with a car that’s fine today, working out what they’re in for over the next year. They compare three places and book one, and nearly every garage meets them with ring for a quote.
The other half, and the MOT in between
Nobody wakes up wanting a service, but plenty of people wake up with an MOT due in three weeks or a fail sheet on the kitchen table, and that’s the best search in your trade. An engine management light is the other one, where the customer genuinely has no idea what the visit even involves or that a code points at a circuit rather than a fault. Then there’s the one stood in a car park next to a car that won’t start, who doesn’t want to type anything into a form. They want to say the noise out loud, or send ten seconds of video of it. All three want the same thing answered first, which is whether you’ll come to them.
Nobody’s checking a register
There isn’t one for mechanics, so what people fall back on is your reviews and your public liability cover, because letting a stranger work on the car outside your own house is a leap of faith.
What I’d do for you
The first meeting is me going through your three sorts of customer and what each of them is after. Then a scope and a price.
The build, your email and your Google profile
Most of these sites are static: plain files on a server, nothing to log into, no plugin sat there waiting to be patched. They load quickly on a phone with two bars of signal, and for most of them there's no ongoing hosting cost. No monthly retainer, and the domain renews once a year at list price in your name with no commission from me. If you'd rather edit the pages yourself I'll build you something you can edit, and tell you what it costs to run before we start.
Email goes on your own custom domain, setup properly so your quotes, invoices and confirmations land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Then the Google Business Profile, which on a phone often sits above every website on the screen. I go through yours with you and get it agreeing with the site, because when the two disagree they stop being read as the same business.
What I'd build for mobile mechanics in your town
The job is the same wherever you are. What changes is which town and village names belong on the page, that's what people type.
See where your site stands first
Put your address into the free check and it tells you where the site's hosted, what it's built with, what a search engine actually gets and whether your email is setup right. Takes about ten seconds and nothing on your site is touched. Run the free check.
If the email records come back failing, that's worth reading about on its own. If it's the site, here's how I build them, and here are five things to ask anyone quoting you.
Tell me about the business.
Say what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you what I'd do, including when the answer is an hour on your Google Business Profile would do more than a new site.