Websites for workshops and mobile mechanics across Greater Hobart, from Moonah and Derwent Park to Rokeby, Kingston and Bridgewater. An inspections page written for Tasmanian rego, the makes you service now that Chinese-built cars and EVs take a big share of new sales, logbook servicing customers can book online, and a page for rental and business fleets.
Tasmania asks for no roadworthy certificate when a registered car is sold, so the inspection work reaching a Hobart workshop looks different from the mainland's: cars coming onto Tasmanian rego from interstate, rego that lapsed months ago, a trailer being registered, a taxi or hire car needing its passenger inspection. Around that sits the logbook, repair and fleet work that keeps the hoists busy. The site's job is to convince each of those people they've found the right workshop before they pick up the phone.
Service Tasmania and Transport Services say an inspection at an Approved Inspection Station is needed for every vehicle not currently registered in Tasmania, including one previously registered interstate, and for one whose rego expired three or more months ago. Interstate inspection reports aren't accepted, and a passed report is valid for 30 days. If your workshop is an AIS, set those cases out on a page of their own, with trailers and caravans being registered, and taxi, restricted hire or luxury hire car inspections if you do them.
An unregistered car may be driven to a nearby inspection station to get it registered, but only if the driver can prove they have a booking. A request form that replies by email or text with the day, the time and your street address puts that proof on their phone. Transport Services' station map lists a contact number for every AIS, so the number on your site should be the same one.
Each approved station sets its own fee, so prices differ between Hobart workshops and drivers can compare them. Publish yours. A car that fails may be driven somewhere to be repaired, so say whether you'll quote the repairs yourself, how a re-inspection is booked and whether the second look costs anything.
TACC reported that in August 2026 Chinese-built vehicles were 34.9% of new vehicles sold in Tasmania, battery electric cars were 22.4% of light-vehicle sales, and 51 makes recorded sales, ten of which had sold nothing in the state a year before. The owner of a BYD, Geely or Chery may not know which independent workshops will take it. A list of the makes you service, the diagnostic gear you use and any high-voltage training answers that, and leaving off the makes you'd turn away saves everyone a wasted call.
TACC notes that some manufacturers now give 10-year warranties and others seven years as standard, where three years used to be common, so a car bought new can now stay under warranty for seven years or more. Their owners want to see that you follow the maker's schedule and stamp the book. A logbook page with an online request (rego, model, odometer reading, the service that's due, a preferred drop-off day) books the job without a phone call. Our main mechanics page covers what to say about warranties.
TACC put rental car deliveries in Tasmania up 92.4% for the year to August 2026, at 608 vehicles, and tied that to tourism fleet renewal and the servicing, tyre and de-fleet work that comes after. Hire firms, tour operators and trades running several vans want an account, a monthly invoice, one contact who knows their vehicles and a quick turnaround. A fleet page with its own application form lets them start without a meeting.
In Tasmania a defect notice can be issued by a police officer or a Transport Safety and Investigations Officer. It lists the faults and a deadline and may restrict use before then; after the deadline the car can't be driven until the notice is cleared, and the Registrar can suspend or cancel the rego. A defect repairs section, with a form field for a photo of the notice, tells a worried driver you can help before the date.
What Tasmania regulates. We haven't found a Tasmanian licence for car repair itself, unlike the repairer licences in NSW, WA and the ACT. What the state does approve is inspection work, under the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999. A mechanic who inspects vehicles for registration needs approval as a vehicle examiner, which asks for relevant qualifications or equivalent experience, an approved vehicle inspection course and a current National Police Certificate. The approval lasts three years, and examiners may only work at an Approved Inspection Station, which holds its own approval, renewed each year. Installing, servicing or repairing a vehicle's gas fuel system is separate again: it needs an automotive gas-fitting licence from Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (CBOS) under the Occupational Licensing Act 2005. Handling refrigerant in a car's cabin air-conditioning needs an automotive air conditioning licence (AAC02) from the Australian Refrigeration Council, which issues refrigerant handling licences on behalf of the Australian Government. Transport Services' AIS team, CBOS and the ARC are the ones to ask about what applies to your business. On the site, name the approvals you hold and no others.
Write-offs and imports. Only a repairable write-off can go back on Tasmanian rego. It needs a structural inspection by an approved body repairer first, then an AIS inspection, then a vehicle identity check by a transport inspector, and the owner keeps a repair diary showing how the car was fixed. A vehicle with no Australian registration history must be entered on the Register of Approved Vehicles before it can be registered at all. If you work with a body shop on write-offs, or inspect imports, a short page giving that order, and saying which steps happen at your workshop, spares customers a lot of confusion.
TACC. The Tasmanian Automotive Chamber of Commerce has represented the state's motor trades since 1928 and merged with the Victorian chamber, VACC, in 1999. It describes itself as representing more than 400 automotive businesses with over 7,500 employees across Tasmania, and it runs a group apprenticeship scheme. If you're a member or hold its accreditation (our Launceston mechanics page explains what that covers), we show it in TACC's own words; if you're not, the site leaves it out.
Councils, suburbs and crossings. The Greater Hobart Act 2019 covers four councils: Hobart, Glenorchy, Clarence on the eastern shore, and Kingborough to the south. Brighton, Sorell, the Derwent Valley and the Huon Valley sit outside it, and their towns, from Bridgewater and Old Beach to New Norfolk, Sorell and Huonville, are worth naming if your customers come from them. In Glenorchy, Derwent Park is mostly light commercial and industrial, and Moonah, about 5 km north of the city, has industrial zones along Charles Street, Sunderland Street and Gormanston Road, with Metro buses running down Main Road for customers who leave the car and go to work. On the eastern shore, Cambridge, near the airport, has grown an industrial estate. Drivers cross the Derwent on the Tasman Bridge, which carried about 73,000 vehicles a day in 2019, more than any other road section in Tasmania; on the Bowen Bridge between Glenorchy and Clarence, opened in 1984 as a back-up after the Tasman Bridge disaster; or on the new Bridgewater Bridge, open since 1 June 2025. Grouping your service area by side of the river, and naming the nearest crossing, lets a customer judge the trip before they book.
Working with us from Adelaide. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Hobart businesses by phone and email, at the prices we charge everywhere else. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and we haven't built a site for a Tasmanian workshop yet, so the examples below were picked for the parts a Hobart workshop would use: a service area people can search, and a longer application form broken into steps.
There's no mechanic in our portfolio yet, and no Tasmanian business. SA Painting Professionals shows a service area laid out so people find their own suburb quickly; Club One shows a multi-part application of the kind a fleet account needs.
An Adelaide painting company with 12 service pages, region pages across South Australia and a suburb and postcode search. A Hobart workshop can use the idea on a smaller scale: suburbs grouped by council and side of the Derwent, so someone in Rokeby or Claremont can check in seconds whether you'll take their car or collect it.
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A South Australian not-for-profit whose seven-page site includes a four-part online grant application. A fleet account application splits up the same way: the business, its vehicles, who can approve work and up to what amount, and how the account is billed.
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“Rebuilt two websites for our businesses and saved us a fortune on hosting etc. Nothing is ever a problem, will email back on a Saturday night if need be.”
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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$399
Services and makes, AIS details if you have them, hours, the suburbs and crossings you cover, a booking request form and tap-to-call on one page. Enough for a mobile mechanic.
Our pick for an AIS workshop
$899
A home page, an inspections page covering interstate cars, lapsed rego, trailers and hire cars, and a logbook servicing page with online booking requests.
$1,499
Adds pages for EVs and hybrids, rental and business fleets, defect notice repairs, write-off repairs with your body shop partner, the eastern shore and your technicians.
Yes, if you're an AIS, as long as it describes the cases that really apply. Transport Services' advice for buyers asks for an inspection only when the car has been unregistered for three months or more, so the private sale of a registered car needs none. What a buyer may still want is a pre-purchase inspection, which is a service you sell rather than a rego requirement, so give it its own name and price. People who've moved from the mainland may search for a roadworthy, an RWC or a safety certificate; using those words once, alongside a line explaining how Tasmania differs, helps them find you without misleading anyone.
Transport Services says a vehicle on interstate rego can be used in Tasmania for three months, after which it needs Tasmanian registration, unless it's used for non-commercial purposes by someone who lives interstate. Registering it means a passed inspection at a Tasmanian AIS, because interstate reports aren't accepted, and that report lasts 30 days. Your inspections page can set this out in two or three sentences and link to Transport Services for anything more.
Yes, in one of three ways. A request form takes the rego, model, kilometres and the day that suits, and you confirm by text or email, which also gives the driver of an unregistered car the proof of booking they need. If your workshop management software has its own online booking page, every Book button can open that instead. Or we build a booking calendar with online payment into the site, quoted along with the rest of the job.
If you service them, yes. TACC's August 2026 figures had Chinese-built cars at 34.9% of Tasmanian new-vehicle sales and plug-in vehicles at 32.4% of light-vehicle sales, so a growing share of Hobart drivers own one and want to know who'll look after it once the dealer isn't convenient. Name the makes, say what work you do on hybrids and EVs and what training your technicians hold, and leave out anything you'd send elsewhere.
If customers come from there, yes. Group the suburbs you draw from by side of the river, say roughly how long the drive is over the Tasman or Bowen Bridge, and mention any pick-up, courtesy car or after-hours key drop that makes the trip easier. If eastern shore customers rarely come to you, it's better to leave them off than to suggest a service you won't provide.
By phone and email. You send your services, the makes you take, any AIS or TACC details and photos taken on your phone; we arrange them into a draft and send a link you can check between jobs; you ask for changes until it's right and pay only once you approve it. Our clients so far are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us the makes you service, whether you're an Approved Inspection Station, which suburbs and which side of the river your customers come from and any fleet accounts you run, and send a few photos of the workshop. We'll quote, build a draft for you to check, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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