The brief
Tannadice Motors is an independent garage in Dundee doing MOTs, servicing and repairs. It had two websites: the garage's own, and a separate site for Tannadice Autobody, its bodywork side. The garage site carried a large set of pages for individual car makes, models and nearby towns, which brought in search visits, and its MOT bookings ran through MOT Manager, an online booking diary the garage uses every day.
The aim was a sharper, more modern site and one place for customers to find everything, without disrupting a business that runs on bookings and phone calls.
What we did
- One site. We brought the bodywork side into the main site as its own section, and pointed the old Tannadice Autobody address at it, so anyone with the old link lands in the right place.
- Every existing page kept at its address. The make, model and location pages stayed exactly where Google already knew them, so the rebuild did not cost the garage its search visits.
- Bookings untouched. The MOT Manager booking diary is embedded exactly as before, so bookings land in the same place the team already works from.
- A page for each service: MOT, servicing, diagnostics, repairs, brakes, clutches, exhausts, timing belts, tyres and more, each written out properly rather than sharing the same boilerplate.
- Motorbike MOTs. Customer reviews kept mentioning motorbike MOTs, a service the old site never mentioned, so it now has its own page.
- No tracking cookies. The contact page uses a self-hosted map rather than an embedded one, so the site sets no cookies at all.
- The garage's email was left alone. Its mail runs separately, and the rebuild did not change it.
Why it matters
A garage website is a tool, not a brochure. The test is simple: can someone with a warning light on, standing in a car park, find the right service and book it in under a minute? That is what this site is built around. See websites for garages for how we approach the motor trade.