Websites for Perth workshops and mobile mechanics, from Yanchep to Rockingham and out to Midland. Your licensed business name and MRB number where Consumer Protection expects them, a page for each job WA drivers search for, from yellow sticker repairs to pre-purchase inspections, and a request form that takes a photo of the defect notice.
In WA a private seller isn't legally required to get a roadworthiness check before selling a car, and annual inspections only apply to particular vehicles such as rideshare cars, tow trucks and driving instructors' cars. So beyond ordinary servicing and repairs, the WA-specific reasons to call a mechanic are a yellow sticker from a roadside check, a used car someone wants looked over before paying for it, or a rideshare car due for its inspection. A Perth workshop site should answer each of those plainly.
In 2022 Consumer Protection said licensed dealers and repairers must display their licence number on their premises, website, social media pages and advertising material. Its compliance checklist for repair businesses also asks whether the licensed business name and licence number appear on all published advertisements and on quotes and invoices. We put both in the footer of every page and beside the phone number, copied exactly from your licence, so the site matches your sign and your paperwork.
A defect notice, often called a yellow sticker or work order, can be issued by WA Police or by authorised officers of the Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure or Main Roads. Apart from a few exceptions, such as going straight to an inspection, the car can't be driven on or after the expiry date on the notice, and the owner has to fix the faults and get it inspected at an Authorised Inspection Station within 14 days of that date. Give this its own heading, say how soon you can look at the listed defects, and let people attach a photo of the notice when they send a request.
Consumer Protection recommends that used car buyers arrange a pre-purchase inspection with a qualified mechanic, and strongly recommends one when buying from a private seller. If you do them, say what you check, how long it takes, how the buyer receives the report and whether you'll go to the seller's address. Someone looking at a car listing on a Saturday morning wants to know when you can fit it in and roughly what it will cost.
Passenger transport vehicles, which include rideshare cars, taxis and charter vehicles, need an initial inspection and then an annual one to keep their authorisation. Drivers lose income while the car sits idle, so they want a workshop that will check it over beforehand and fix anything quickly. If that work suits you, give it a page and state how fast you can turn a car around.
WA's repair regulations divide the work into 23 classes, among them light vehicle servicing work, brake work, air conditioning work, electrical work, and wheel aligning, steering and suspension work. A business needs a certified repairer for each class it carries out. Listing your services under those classes, in the words drivers type, keeps the site in line with what your team is certified for and gives each service a heading people can find.
Since July 2024 Perth has opened stations at Alkimos, Eglinton and Yanchep, five on the Ellenbrook line from Morley to Ellenbrook, and Nicholson Road and Ranford Road on the Thornlie–Cockburn line. If one of those, or any other station, is a short walk from your workshop, name it and give the walking time. Add how your key drop works and, if you look after cars for customers who fly out on work rosters, how airport drop-off and pick-up is arranged.
Who licenses repairers. Car repair in WA comes under the Motor Vehicle Repairers Act 2003, administered by Consumer Protection, now part of the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety. A motor vehicle repair business (MRB) licence is needed by anyone who owns a repair business, works as a self-employed repairer or runs a mobile repair business. A repairer's certificate is a separate licence for people who do repair work unsupervised or supervise other people's work, and it's granted for particular classes of work. For each class a business carries out, it needs at least one certified repairer for every three uncertified repairers at each premises, apprentices aside, and its premises, fixed or mobile, must be authorised. A business licence is issued for three years, and customers can check it with Consumer Protection's free online licence search.
Licence details on a website. Consumer Protection's proactive compliance checklist for repair businesses asks three questions that bear on a site: whether the licensed business name, MRB licence number and Certificate of Authorised Premises are clearly displayed outside the business; whether the licensed business name and licence number are shown on all published advertisements; and whether they appear on business materials such as quotes and invoices. In 2022 its acting executive director also said licensed dealers and repairers must display their licence number on their premises, website, social media pages and advertising material. We copy your details onto the site exactly as licensed, and for anything beyond that we point you to Consumer Protection rather than guess.
How inspections work. The Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure (DTMI) authorises private businesses as Authorised Inspection Stations across metropolitan and regional WA. Its Welshpool Vehicle Examination Centre has closed, and its Kelmscott centre handles high-risk, highly modified or oversized vehicles by appointment for customers DTMI sends there. A vehicle needs an inspection to be licensed in WA, to clear a defect notice, after changes to its body, engine or dimensions, before a repairable write-off is relicensed (that takes two inspections), and each year for vehicles such as rideshare cars, tow trucks and vehicles with more than 12 seats. Inspection certificates are valid for three months. Drivers book with the station and pay it directly, so an AIS should say on its site which vehicles it inspects and how to book.
What Consumer Protection tells your customers. Its car servicing advice tells drivers to get more than one quote, says a quote should set out the work and the cost, and says the customer authorises the work in the original quote plus any extra they agree to, suggesting they ask the repairer to ring about extra work when they drop the car off. It also says an independent licensed mechanic can service a car without voiding the manufacturer's warranty, as long as the repairs and parts meet the manufacturer's standards. A line saying you'll call before doing anything extra, and a logbook servicing page that repeats the warranty point, meet customers where that advice leaves them.
Where customers come from. A workshop's customers don't always live next door. Malaga is the clearest case: the 2021 Census counted 25 residents, while the City of Swan's 2025 local area plan says the precinct employs more than 17,000 people and calls it the second largest industrial centre of employment in WA. The City describes the precinct as bounded by residential suburbs, and Ballajura, Noranda, Beechboro and Dianella are among those around it, so a Malaga workshop site can name those suburbs for private customers and add a fleet enquiry form for the businesses next door. If you belong to the Motor Trade Association of WA, the Balcatta-based industry body that lists more than 1,600 active members, we can show that beside your licence details. We're an Adelaide team, we haven't built for a WA business yet, and we work with Perth businesses by phone and email.
We haven't built for a mechanic, or for any business in WA, yet. These two Adelaide sites have the form features a workshop here would use most: a quote form with fee ranges and file uploads, and a request spread over several short steps.
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In the footer of every page and next to the phone number at the top, with your licensed business name exactly as the licence shows it. In 2022 Consumer Protection said repairers must display the licence number on their website and social media pages, and its compliance checklist asks whether the licensed business name and number appear on all published advertisements. If you're unsure how that applies to something specific, such as a social media post or a marketplace listing, ask Consumer Protection rather than us.
They can send a request: the vehicle, the reason (licensing, a defect notice, a modification or an annual passenger transport inspection) and a preferred day, and you confirm. DTMI tells drivers to book with the station and pay the fee to it directly, so the site should say how you take payment on the day. For servicing and repairs we can build online booking with payment into the site, quoted for your workshop, or link the booking tool you already use.
If they're a regular part of your work, yes. Buyers search for them by name, usually with a particular car in mind, and Consumer Protection recommends they get one before they buy. The page should list what you check, say whether you'll go to the seller's address and explain how the report arrives. The request form can ask for the listing link, where the car is and when the seller is available.
Both, with your suburb doing most of the work. Many people look for a workshop near home or work, and Perth's metro area spreads a long way along the coast, so a Malaga workshop is better off naming Ballajura, Noranda and Beechboro than relying on a line about servicing all of Perth. Mobile mechanics should list the suburbs they'll drive to and say plainly where they stop.
By phone and email. We're based in Adelaide, our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and we haven't built for a WA business yet. You send your services, licence details, hours and photos taken on your phone; we send a draft link you can check between jobs; you ask for changes until it's right and pay once you approve it. Adelaide is 1.5 hours ahead of Perth, or 2.5 during South Australian daylight saving, and we reply within 24 hours.
Tell us your licensed business name, the certificate classes your team covers, whether you're an inspection station and the suburbs your customers come from. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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