Nothing gets fixed until you say yes.
Arches 9 and 10, Floodgate Street, Digbeth.
An independent garage under the railway arches in Digbeth since 1996: MOTs, servicing, diagnostics, brakes and clutches, and electric and hybrid cars. If we find something you didn't ask for, we ring you with the price first.
Book an MOT or service
Call 0121 496 0318
MOT
£45, about 45 minutes while you wait
Collection
Free inside the Middleway
Saturdays
Open 8.30am till 1pm
What happens to your car.
Every car that comes in gets a job card with what you asked us to do. If we find anything else, we ring you with the price before we touch it. No call, no work, no charge.
Job card
Hollis & Daughter
We rang first
Booked in
Tuesday 8.10am. Full service and MOT.
We found
Front pads down to 2mm. Rear tyre near the limit.
We rang you
10.42am: pads and discs, £219. The tyre can wait till spring.
You said
Yes to the brakes. Leave the tyre.
Ready
3.15pm. MOT passed. Old pads in a bag in your boot.
Every price, written down.
All our prices include VAT. For repairs, we quote the parts before we order them, so you hear the whole price before we start.
Book your car in
Tests and servicing
MOT
About 45 minutes while you wait. If it fails and we do the work, the retest is free within 10 working days.
£45
Interim service
Every 6,000 miles or six months.
from
£139
Full service
Every 12,000 miles or every year, to your maker's schedule, with parts that keep your warranty intact.
from
£229
MOT and full service together
Both on the same visit.
from
£259
Repairs
Diagnostics
Warning lights, odd noises, cars that won't start. This covers the first hour.
£65
Brake pads
For one axle, front or rear.
from
£119
Brake pads and discs
For one axle, front or rear.
from
£219
Clutch replacement
Quoted for your car before we order the parts.
from
£495
Electric and hybrid
Electric and hybrid health check
The battery, the brakes, the high-voltage cables, the coolant and the tyres.
£79
Electric car service
In the bay we keep for electric and hybrid cars.
from
£169
Electric and hybrid, in a bay of their own.
Jess trained to work on high-voltage systems in 2019. Electric and hybrid cars go in their own bay, on insulated mats, with insulated tools.
The health check, £79
Battery
A report on its health
Brakes
They rust on electric cars, because they're hardly used
High voltage
The cables and connectors
Coolant, tyres
The battery's coolant, and the tyres
An electric car service is from £169.
Book a health check
Two railway arches, since 1996.
Ray Hollis opened the garage in 1996, after fifteen years in a main-dealer workshop. His daughter Jess started here as an apprentice in 2012 and has run it since 2023. Ray still does the MOTs, Tuesday to Thursday.
There are six of us: Jess, Ray, three technicians and Marcia on the front desk. We work on most petrol, diesel, hybrid and electric cars and small vans. Not classics or performance cars; we'll tell you who to ring instead.
Guarantee
12 months or 12,000 miles, parts and labour
Old parts
In a bag in your boot, so you can see what we changed
Can it wait?
If it can wait till the next service, we'll tell you
Waiting room
The corner of arch 10: a kettle, wifi and the best view of the ramp in Digbeth
“They rang me about the rear tyre, told me it could wait till spring, and it did.”
Femi, Moseley
“Collected from my office at nine, back by five, with the old brake pads in a bag in the boot.”
Hannah, Jewellery Quarter
We'll come and get it.
From your home or your work, and back again when it is done. Leave the car with us and get on with your day.
Inside the Middleway
Free, both ways
Up to six miles out
£15 each way
Birmingham city centre
Digbeth
Jewellery Quarter
Edgbaston
Balsall Heath
Moseley
Sparkbrook
Small Heath
Bordesley Green
Kings Heath
Selly Oak
Harborne
Book your car in.
Choose what it needs, a day and a time to drop it off, or ask us to collect it. We'll text you when it's ready.
Rather ring or WhatsApp?
0121 496 0318
WhatsApp 07700 900318
hello@hollisanddaughter.co.uk
Opening hours
Monday to Friday
8am–6pm
Saturday
8.30am–1pm
Sunday
Closed
Find us
Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5
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