Mobile Mechanic in Ely
We're just down the A142 in Soham, so Ely is a short hop for us. We come to your home or work anywhere in CB6 and CB7 and do most jobs there and then.
about 10 to 15 minutes north of our Soham base, straight up the A142.
Our prices£20 call-outthen a price agreed before any work starts
Every job here is done by James Snow, the owner and mechanic. The person who quotes your car is the person who turns up to it.
SV Autos covers Ely from our base in Soham, about ten minutes down the A142, so you get a genuinely local mobile mechanic rather than someone travelling in from Cambridge. We come to you across the city and the villages around it, and get most jobs done on your own driveway.
Ely is a commuter city as much as a cathedral one. Plenty of people here drive the A10 to Cambridge or take the train onward to London, which piles the miles on and wears out the usual things, brakes, tyres, clutches, batteries and suspension. Rather than book a garage across town and lose a day, we bring the work to your door.
There are 9,990 cars licensed in Ely, 15% more than in 2011, and another 940 are currently declared off the road.
Putting one of those back on the road means taxing it, and you cannot tax a car without a valid MOT.
What can you do at my home in Ely?
Most jobs a garage does, done on your driveway. Open any service for what's involved and how we price it.
Terraced streets near the centre, and what that means
A lot of Ely's older streets near the cathedral and the river are terraced with on-street parking only. That doesn't stop us, but it does decide what gets finished there and then. We need a safe, legal spot with room to get a wheel off and the car properly supported, which a quiet terrace usually gives us and a narrow through road does not. We'd rather tell you that when you ring than when we turn up.
Built around the A10 and A142
Ely sits where the A10 (Cambridge to King's Lynn) meets the A142 out to Soham and Newmarket, so a lot of local cars are doing steady dual-carriageway commuting miles. That's exactly the mileage that quietly eats brake pads and clutches, and it's worth catching at a service before it turns into a bigger bill.
The villages around Ely, covered too
From Ely we also reach Littleport, Witchford, Sutton, Little Downham, Stretham, Prickwillow and Queen Adelaide.
Car servicing in Ely
An interim service is £100 in labour, a full service £160 and a major £240, plus the £20 call-out and the oil and filters your car needs. We do it on your driveway or at your work, and Ely is ten to fifteen minutes from us, so it's an easy run. The service book gets stamped the same as it would at a garage.
Brakes in Ely
Pads are £80 in labour per axle and pads with discs £100 per axle, plus parts. Brakes are one of the jobs mobile does well: they need the wheel off and the car supported safely, not a ramp. If you're hearing a squeal it's usually early warning and you have time; if it's a grinding noise, stop driving and call us, because that's metal on metal and it damages the discs.
What it costs in Ely
The same prices as everywhere else we cover. There's no surcharge for where you are and no mileage charge on top of the call-out.
| Job | Labour |
|---|---|
| Call-out, anywhere in Ely | £20 |
| Interim service | £100 |
| Full service | £160 |
| Diagnostics | £20 |
| Brake pads, per axle | £80 |
| Battery fitted | £80 |
Labour only. Parts are quoted for your car and the total is agreed in writing before any work starts. See the full price list.
Nearby areas we cover
What if it doesn’t go to plan?
You get the price before anything starts. If we open it up and find something else, we stop, tell you what it is and what it costs, and you decide whether to carry on.
Some jobs genuinely need a ramp. We say so rather than have a go, and point you to a workshop. The £20 call-out still applies, because we have come out and looked at it.
There is nothing to pay up front and no cancellation fee. You settle up once the work is done, by card, cash or bank transfer.
Need a mechanic in Ely?
Tell us the car and what it's doing and we'll come to you. A £20 call-out and a clear price agreed before any work starts.
Mobile mechanic in Ely, FAQs
Getting the MOT done in Ely, for less
There are 25 MOT test stations within five miles of Ely, 11 of them in Ely itself. Only an approved station can issue the certificate, and the test itself is capped at £54.85. What costs money is what it fails on.
So we come to you first. A pre-MOT check on your driveway in Ely finds the common failures while they are still cheap to fix, and we can service the car in the same visit.
DVSA active MOT test stations, placed by postcode, checked 2026-10-01. Test stations only.
Tell us what your car's doing
A clear price agreed before anything is booked. No obligation, no pressure.
We reply within 48 hours, and if it's urgent it's quicker to ring or send a WhatsApp. There's a flat £20 call-out and then a clear price for the work, agreed before anything starts. Nothing to pay up front, no cancellation fee, and you settle up once the work is done, by card, cash or bank transfer.