Websites for Melbourne workshops, licensed vehicle testers and mobile mechanics. A roadworthy page that's honest about what the certificate does and doesn't cover, your VACC or LMCT details where they apply, and a service request form that hands you the rego and the problem before you pick up the phone.
Victoria has no yearly inspection for private cars. A roadworthy certificate is generally needed when a car is sold or re-registered, so plenty of Melbourne searches start with a sale: a seller who needs an RWC by the weekend, a buyer who wants the car looked over first. Others just want a service near home or work. A workshop site should answer each of them in a few seconds.
Only a Licensed Vehicle Tester can issue a Victorian roadworthy certificate, and the Department of Transport and Planning's standards say the inspection is not a check of mechanical reliability or general condition. Put that on your RWC page in plain words, list the vehicles you test, and explain what happens when a car fails: what you'll fix, how you'll price it and when it can come back for the recheck.
Consumer Affairs Victoria tells used-car buyers to consider an inspection by the RACV's inspection service, a VACC member or an independent qualified mechanic before they buy, and to think twice about a car whose seller won't allow one. If you do pre-purchase checks, give them their own section, say how they differ from a roadworthy, and say whether you'll go to the seller's address.
Some workshops sell a few trade-ins or restored cars on the side. Consumer Affairs Victoria says that, generally, anyone who deals in four or more cars a year needs a motor car trader's licence, and that any advertisement a trader places must show the letters LMCT followed by the licence number, printed clearly and visibly. If cars are listed on your site, that line sits beside every listing and in the footer.
VACC member signage tells customers whether a business is a VACC Member or a VACC Accredited Member, and a business that loses accreditation has to take its accreditation signage down. Use the same wording on the website as on the wall. If you're accredited, mention the Code of Business Practice you display at the counter: two of the five pillars accreditation is assessed on are the approach to customers and resolving complaints, which is what a wary customer wants to know.
Safe Transport Victoria requires a car registered for booked rideshare work to pass an inspection every year, done by a VicRoads Licensed Vehicle Tester or by Redbook, and the owner has to be able to produce evidence of it on request. Drivers who lose money every hour the car sits idle want an early slot and paperwork they can keep on their phone, so give them a heading and a form option of their own.
If you fit lift kits, bigger wheels or engine conversions, name the work and say whether you deal with a VASS signatory. Modifications that go past the allowances in VicRoads' modification guide (VSI 8) need an approval certificate from the Vehicle Assessment Signatory Scheme, and a tester has to take that certificate into account at a roadworthy inspection.
Consumer Affairs Victoria advises drivers to get a written estimate covering the work, the parts, how long it will take, the payment method and the parts and labour costs, to make it clear they must be called before any repair they haven't authorised, and to be wary of a mechanic who asks for payment up front. A short section saying how you handle each of those answers most of the doubt about a workshop someone hasn't used before.
No repairer licence, but a tester licence. Victoria doesn't have a general licence for repair businesses like the ones NSW and Western Australia require. The state licence a Victorian workshop is most likely to hold is the Licensed Vehicle Tester (LVT) licence, issued by the Department of Transport and Planning under the Road Safety Act 1986 to a business running a mechanical repair or inspection facility open to the public. It lets the holder authorise staff to test vehicles and sign certificates on the business's behalf. If you hold one, say so on your roadworthy page. If you don't, say where you send customers who need a certificate, so nobody books a service expecting to leave with an RWC.
What a roadworthy certificate is for. The department's roadworthiness standards, published as Vehicle Standards Information 26, say a certificate is generally required when a vehicle is sold or re-registered, after a Vehicle Identity Validation (VIV) inspection on a repairable write-off, and in some cases to clear a vehicle defect notice. It can only be issued by a Licensed Vehicle Tester operating from an approved facility such as a garage or service station, and it's current for 30 days from the date of issue. The same document says the fee depends on the vehicle's age, type and condition and tells people to get a quote before authorising the inspection. That's a good reason to publish how you price an RWC, even if it's a starting figure for a standard passenger car.
Industry bodies and car sales. The Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce, based in North Melbourne, says it represents more than 5,000 automotive businesses employing over 50,000 Victorians. Accreditation is a further standard its members can choose to opt into, with an annual training module and random audits. Consumer Affairs Victoria suggests drivers find out whether a mechanic belongs to an association such as RACV or VACC, whose members must follow a code of conduct, so membership is worth a line near your phone number. A workshop that also trades in cars comes under the motor car trader rules, with LMCT and the licence number in every advertisement.
Rideshare cars and write-offs. Cars used for rideshare are checked on the road as well as in the workshop. Over the Labour Day long weekend in March 2026, Safe Transport Victoria stopped and inspected more than 400 taxi and rideshare vehicles at the Australian Grand Prix, and reported that more than 80 per cent of drivers and vehicles met the requirements. Repairable write-offs follow their own path: VACC's 2026 policy blueprint says only 10 businesses were approved to carry out VIV inspections as of October 2025, seven of them in metropolitan Melbourne. If you repair write-offs, set out the order on your site: the repair, the VIV inspection, then the roadworthy.
Working with us from Adelaide. We're an Adelaide team and work with Melbourne businesses by phone and email. One of our Victorian clients is Dr Tabara Dione Coaching in Melbourne, whose site has online booking linked from every page. Nobody needs to visit the workshop: you send your services, tester and association details and a few phone photos of the bays, we send a draft link you can check between jobs, and you pay once you've approved it.
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Victoria has no general repairer licence, so often there's no single number to show. If you're a Licensed Vehicle Tester, say so on the roadworthy page. If you sell cars, Consumer Affairs Victoria says any advertisement a trader places must show LMCT followed by the licence number, so we put it beside any cars listed on your site. If you're unsure what applies to you, Consumer Affairs Victoria and the Department of Transport and Planning are the places to check; we copy across exactly what you give us.
Yes. The simplest version is a request form asking for the rego, the vehicle type and whether the RWC is for a sale, a re-registration or a defect notice; you confirm by phone or text. If your workshop software takes online bookings, the button can open it. We can also build a booking calendar with online payment into the site, quoted along with the rest of the job.
The department's own guidance tells people the fee varies with the car's age, type and condition and to get a quote first. A starting price for a standard passenger car, with a line on what pushes it up (a 4WD, a light commercial, a car that fails and needs work), answers the question before they ring. If you'd rather not publish a figure, explain how you quote instead.
If rideshare drivers are a steady part of your bookings, yes. Safe Transport Victoria accepts a yearly inspection from a Licensed Vehicle Tester or Redbook, but platforms can ask for more: DiDi's Melbourne driver page, for example, asks for a Redbook inspection every 12 months. A short page that says which inspections you do, your hours and how long the car will be off the road is enough.
By phone and email. We're based in Adelaide, with clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and we don't visit workshops. You send your services, hours, tester and association details and some phone photos; we send a draft link; you ask for changes until it's right and pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us whether you're a Licensed Vehicle Tester, which suburbs your customers drive in from and what you'd like people to book online. We'll send a quote, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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