Book a car service without spending your morning on the phone
To book a car service properly you end up ringing three workshops. One can’t fit you in for a fortnight, one doesn’t answer, and one puts you on hold while they find the diary. All of it has to happen during work hours.
Give us your car’s make, model and year, the dates that suit and the workshops you would consider. A real person rings each one, asks about availability, drop-off times and what is included, and texts you the options. Pick one and we book it.
The problem
Why booking a service takes longer than the service
Workshops are busy on the tools
The person who answers the phone is often the person under your neighbour’s car. Calls ring out or get a rushed ‘can I call you back?’, and the call back comes when you are in a meeting.
Everyone is booked out
The good local mechanic is two weeks away. To find someone sooner you have to ring around, repeating your make, model, year and kilometres to each one and writing down what they said. It adds up.
The questions you forget to ask
Is there a loan car? How early can I drop it off? Is it a logbook service? Can I wait? You remember half of them after you hang up, then ring back or turn up and hope.
It always slides
The sticker on the windscreen says the service was due two months ago. It is never urgent enough to give up a lunch break for, until the rego is due or the road trip is next weekend.
The fix
What you get when we ring around
Options side by side
We ask each workshop the same questions and text you the answers together in one message: earliest date, drop-off and pick-up times, loan car or not, and what the service covers.
Booked under your name
Choose a slot and we ring again and book it. Or tell us up front to take the first one that fits your dates, and we lock it in on the first call.
Nothing approved without you
We book the service you asked for and nothing more. If a workshop suggests extra work, we pass that on. You decide, and you pay them directly when you collect the car.
An example
What it looks like
You tell us
My 2017 petrol hatchback is due for its 90,000 km logbook service. Can you try Greenway Auto, Harper Street Mechanical and Don’s Garage? I need a weekday next week, and I’d love a loan car or an early drop-off.
We text you back
Rang all three. Greenway Auto: Wednesday, drop off from 7am, no loan car. Harper Street Mechanical: Thursday, loan car available if you book today. Don’s Garage: nothing until the week after. Tell us which one you want and we will book it.
An example only, with made-up names, to show the kind of answer you get.
Three steps
How it works
- 1
Tell us who to call
The business or person, and what you want to ask, book or find out. Thirty seconds on the form below.
- 2
We ring them
A real person makes the call and says they are ringing on your behalf. No answer? We try again until there is one.
- 3
We text you the result
What they said, in plain words, sent to your mobile. The recording and a written transcript too, if you asked for them.
Good to know
We book the service and bring back what each workshop told us. We don’t approve repairs, agree to extra work or pay for anything. If a workshop will only talk about cost once it has seen the car, we tell you that. If they find something on the day, that conversation is between you and them.
Free while we’re getting started
Who do you want us to ring?
Give us the who and the what. We make the call, keep trying if nobody answers, and text you what they said.
- A real person makes the call, not a robot
- We say we’re ringing on your behalf
- No answer? We try again, and again
- The answer lands on your phone as a text
Leave it with us.
We’ll make the call and text you what they said. Now go and do something better with your day.
Questions people ask
Can you ask what it will cost?
We can ask, and we pass on exactly what each workshop says, including what is and is not covered. We don’t negotiate and we don’t commit you to anything. Paying is between you and the workshop.
What do you need to know about my car?
Make, model, year, roughly how many kilometres it has done and what kind of service is due. Mention anything else you want looked at, like a noise or a warning light, and we pass it on when we book.
What if they find more work on the day?
That is yours to decide. We give the workshop your first name when we book, and we pass on your number only if you say we can, so they are able to reach you. We never approve work or spending on your behalf.