Car Garage for Sutton Coldfield

An alternative to the dealer, ten minutes away

Sutton Coldfield drivers tend to have two options: the franchised dealer with the hourly rate to match, or a fast-fit that will do tyres and an oil change but hands the car back the moment anything is genuinely wrong with it.

MRD Automotive sits between the two. We are a full independent workshop at Unit 32 Brickyard Rd in Aldridge — a straightforward run from Sutton via the A452 — and we have been repairing cars in this area for over 30 years. That includes plenty of the prestige and performance machinery that is thick on the ground in B72, B73, B74 and B75.

Your warranty stays intact — this is the part people get wrong

The single most common reason drivers with a newer car stay at the dealer is the belief that going anywhere else voids the manufacturer's warranty. It does not, and it has not for years.

Under Block Exemption Regulation, you are entitled to have your vehicle serviced by an independent garage without affecting the manufacturer's warranty, provided two conditions are met: the work follows the manufacturer's service schedule, and the parts used are of matching OE quality.

We do both as standard on every service, and we stamp your service book. You keep the warranty and the service history, and you stop paying dealer labour rates for an oil and filter change.

What we take on

Everything is done in-house, which matters more than it sounds — it means one garage sees the whole job rather than three passing it between them:

• MOT testing from £45, with any failures repaired here rather than referred on
• Interim, full and major servicing from £89, to manufacturer schedule
• Fault diagnostics from £24 — warning lights, intermittent faults, the things a code reader alone will not solve
• Brakes, tyres and four-wheel alignment, alignment from £36
• Clutch and cam belt replacement
• HHO engine carbon cleaning from £59.99
• Welding, exhausts, batteries and general mechanical repair
• Local breakdown assistance and recovery

Prestige and performance cars

Have a look through our workshop gallery and you will see the sort of thing that comes through the doors — Ferraris, Porsches and Range Rovers alongside the everyday family cars that are the bread and butter of any decent garage.

We are not going to claim to be a marque specialist for every badge on the road, because nobody honestly is. What we will say is that we have three decades of experience across all makes and models, we invest in the diagnostic equipment to work on modern vehicles properly, and if a job genuinely needs a franchised dealer's proprietary tooling we will tell you that rather than take the car apart and find out halfway through.

Getting here from Sutton Coldfield

We are at Unit 32 Brickyard Rd, Aldridge, Walsall WS9 8UY. From Sutton Coldfield town centre it is a short run out through Little Aston and Streetly, or up the A452 Chester Road and across — generally under fifteen minutes outside rush hour.

Drivers come to us regularly from Sutton Coldfield, Little Aston, Streetly, Four Oaks, Mere Green and Walmley. There is a map and full directions on our contact page.

Not sure whether it is worth the drive for your job? Ring us on 01922 459304, tell us what the car is doing, and we will give you a straight answer — including telling you when something is not worth bringing to us.