New auto repair shops: how many open and who sells to them
Auspector ·
In the 30 days to October 27, 2026, 34,709 new auto repair shop records entered our newly opened businesses section across the 35 countries we measure — 5,362 in the United States and 1,399 in the United Kingdom. Of all US auto repair records, 91.4% carry a phone number and 43.9% website information; in the UK, 89.4% and 42.6%.
How many open, and where?
In the United States, 5,362 new auto repair records arrived in 30 days. Among the 12 cities with the most auto repair records, Los Angeles (69), Houston (61) and New York (31) received the most new ones. Texas alone has 5 of those 12 cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin and Fort Worth. A city row covers only the settlement in the address, not its suburbs, so for a sales territory the state is the more useful unit: see the state pages for Texas and California.
| City | Auto repair records | New, 30 days | Phone, no website information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston | 6,111 | 61 | 53.4% |
| Los Angeles | 4,936 | 69 | 56.7% |
| New York | 4,622 | 31 | 60.3% |
| Phoenix | 2,167 | 21 | 48.1% |
| San Antonio | 2,005 | 28 | 46.3% |
| Dallas | 1,869 | 11 | 51.6% |
| Chicago | 1,783 | 10 | 53.3% |
| Philadelphia | 1,738 | 22 | 62.4% |
| Columbus | 1,366 | 13 | 47.1% |
| Jacksonville | 1,330 | 15 | 41.5% |
| Austin | 1,117 | 9 | 36.8% |
| Fort Worth | 1,055 | 20 | 48.3% |
In the United Kingdom, where these businesses are usually called garages, 1,399 new records arrived. Among the 12 cities with the most records, London (102), Birmingham (20) and Sheffield (15) received the most new ones. Region pages: Greater London and West Midlands.
| City | Auto repair records | New, 30 days | Phone, no website information |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 2,218 | 102 | 47.0% |
| Birmingham | 987 | 20 | 54.6% |
| Glasgow | 473 | 10 | 49.0% |
| Bristol | 450 | 11 | 44.4% |
| Leicester | 445 | 8 | 53.0% |
| Sheffield | 434 | 15 | 44.5% |
| Bradford | 406 | <5 | 61.1% |
| Leeds | 403 | 6 | 49.4% |
| Liverpool | 388 | <5 | 53.1% |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 364 | <5 | 56.0% |
| Manchester | 342 | 9 | 62.3% |
| Nottingham | 327 | <5 | 48.0% |
Full figures: auto repair shops in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Car dealers are a separate sector and are not counted here; in the same 30 days the US received 991 new car dealer records and the UK 351 (car dealers in the United States). If you also sell to dealer workshops, put both sectors in the search.
How do the six markets compare?
| Country | Auto repair records | New, 30 days | New per 1,000 records | New per 1,000, all businesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 385,744 | 5,362 | 13.9 | 13.8 |
| Türkiye | 126,516 | 1,579 | 12.5 | 11.1 |
| United Kingdom | 62,321 | 1,399 | 22.4 | 11.5 |
| France | 79,011 | 1,020 | 12.9 | 9.8 |
| Germany | 77,159 | 629 | 8.2 | 8.3 |
| Spain | 56,593 | 329 | 5.8 | 7.8 |
Scaled to the size of the sector, the United Kingdom stands out: 22.4 new records per 1,000 auto repair records in 30 days, against 11.5 across all its businesses. In the United States the sector rate is close to the national one (13.9 and 13.8). A record is dated by when it reaches us, not by an opening date, so these rates compare arrivals, not openings.
How reachable are they?
| Country | Phone | Phone, all businesses | Website information | Website information, all businesses | Phone, no website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 91.4% | 83.1% | 43.9% | 61.7% | 48.2% |
| Türkiye | 60.7% | 67.6% | 14.0% | 27.9% | 48.5% |
| United Kingdom | 89.4% | 72.8% | 42.6% | 62.5% | 48.3% |
| France | 90.9% | 67.4% | 45.6% | 56.9% | 45.9% |
| Germany | 89.6% | 73.9% | 58.1% | 68.2% | 33.2% |
| Spain | 85.3% | 67.1% | 33.2% | 52.1% | 52.7% |
Auto repair records carry website information less often than the average business in all six markets, and a phone number more often in all but Türkiye. In the United States that leaves 185,807 records (48.2%) with a phone but no website information; in the United Kingdom, 30,070 (48.3%).
For a parts or equipment supplier, the phone and the address are the two channels: most records have a number, and coordinates put the address on a rep’s route. Workshops often sit close together on the same industrial estate or commercial strip, so one trip can cover several new shops. Rules on unsolicited calls and messages differ by country and channel, and the obligation lies with the sender; check them with your own counsel before a campaign.
What does a new workshop buy, and when?
Most of the buying happens in a short window around opening, roughly in this order:
- Before the first car comes in: equipment. Two-post or four-post lifts, a diagnostic scan tool, a compressor and air tools, a tyre changer and wheel balancer, alignment, workbenches and storage, a waste-oil drainer and tank. It is the biggest ticket and the earliest decision, so it rewards the newest records. Some shops on the list will already have bought; “what are you still missing?” opens better than a catalogue.
- First stock: parts and consumables. Engine oil, filters, brake pads and discs, batteries, wiper blades, bulbs, fluids; tyres for tyre shops. A new workshop opens its trade accounts in the first weeks and keeps ordering for as long as it trades, so the account is worth more than the first order.
- Software and payments. Workshop management — job cards, estimates, invoices, parts lookup and ordering, vehicle history, service reminders — and a card terminal (see merchant services leads).
- Insurance. Customers’ vehicles in the shop’s care, the premises, tools and liability (see commercial insurance leads).
- Services. Waste-oil and old-parts collection, workwear and shop towels, signage, an accountant, a website.
How to build the list
- Category: auto repair shop, car repair and maintenance, body shop, tyre shop, tyre repair, auto electrical service, auto glass, transmission shop, brake shop. Categories are each record’s own and are chosen one by one, so a tyre distributor can take tyre shops only and a paint supplier body shops only.
- Area: city and district; coordinates for a field route.
- Time: arrived in the last 30 days; for equipment, newest first.
- Channel: phone number on record for a call team; add “no website on record” if you sell websites or workshop software with online booking.
- Watch: save the search and new matches arrive by email every day.
Searching and counting are free on every plan, so you can check the monthly number for your territory before you spend a credit (pricing). Exports are CSV or XLSX with a stable ID per record, so a re-import updates rows instead of duplicating them. A record carries name, category, address, city, district, phone, web address, coordinates and opening hours where available; there is no email column and no named-person column.