A fairer way to book a UK garage.
We started with a question that had been bugging us for a decade: why is the dominant platform for British drivers a Dutch-owned company that charges its garages a tenth of every job? Surely we could build something kinder to both sides.
Three years. Two founders.
One ridiculous spreadsheet.
Our co-founder James spends a weekend ringing 11 garages for a clutch quote on his sister's Polo. Prices vary from £380 to £1,210. He builds a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet gets shared. The spreadsheet wants to be a product.
We sign up 40 London garages in two months. Sarah builds the DVLA lookup in a week. We charge garages nothing for 6 months. They keep telling us this is the cheapest tool they've used in their lives.
RepairMyCar.io goes live in February with 2,400 garages. By December we hit 12,500. The Times runs a feature. We hire Pete to run the garage network full-time.
127 million pounds routed to UK independents in 12 months. 21,000 verified reviews. 84% of garages renew. Still £5 per booking. Still no commission. Still very much just getting started.
What a fair platform looks like.
Garages never see your real number.
Every booking goes through a masked-contact layer. Garages get a proxied phone and an alias email - enough to confirm the job, never enough to spam you later. The mask lifts only when you actively re-book that garage direct.
- Phone, email and address masked end-to-end
- Garages vetted: insurance, registration, MOT-centre status
- 12-month parts & labour warranty on every job
- Disputed work covered at our cost up to £1,500
Small team. Big obsession.
Ex-Trustpilot. The one with the spreadsheet.
Ex-Monzo, ex-DVLA digital. Built the lookup in a week.
Ran a 3-bay indie in Bermondsey for 14 years. Knows the trade.
Ex-Citizens Advice. Writes the warranty terms, runs disputes.
Kind words.
"A welcome shake-up to a category long dominated by foreign-owned listings sites."
"Genuinely cheaper than the dealer, and the booking experience is the slickest we've seen."
"RepairMyCar is doing for car servicing what Monzo did for current accounts."
"A rare British tech story where the customer and the small business both come out ahead."
We read every email.
No tickets, no chatbots, no escalation flows. A small team of humans, based in London, who actually want to hear from you.