YOUR CAR, PROPERLY LOOKED AFTER.
An independent performance garage & MOT centre in the Sussex countryside — the workshop petrolheads trust their weekend car to, and everyone else trusts the daily.
Six bays of
proper work.
Every job quoted before we start, photographed as we go, and torque-checked before it leaves. Fixed prices where fixed prices make sense.
MOT &
Servicing
Class 4 & 7 testing on-site, while-you-wait slots, and servicing that follows the book — not the upsell sheet.
from £54.85Diagnostics
& Electrics
Dealer-level tooling for VAG, BMW, JLR and Toyota. We find the actual fault — not the first code that pays.
from £75Performance
& Tuning
Mapping on our AWD dyno, supporting mods done properly, and honest numbers on a printout you keep.
from £299Tyres &
Alignment
Hunter four-wheel alignment with a before/after printout, road-force balancing and tyres fitted same day.
from £89Classic &
Weekend Cars
Carbs, points, Webers and patina — set up by people who own old metal themselves and drive it hard.
from £95Air-Con
Service
R134a and R1234yf regas, leak tracing with UV dye, and vents that blow properly cold before the M23 melts.
from £79Numbers, on
the rollers.
Founded 2009 by a race mechanic who was tired of dealer-speak.
Class 4 & 7 on our own DVSA lane — while-you-wait, daily.
From 600+ drivers across Google and Trustpilot.
Parts and labour on everything that leaves the workshop.
The Forge
Standard.
Five rules, printed on the wall above the workbench. Every tech signs them. Every job follows them.
Nothing without a call
We ring before we spanner. You approve the work and the price — or it doesn't happen. No surprise invoices, ever.
Every jobPhotos, not jargon
Every fault we find is photographed and sent to your phone in plain English, so you can see exactly what we see.
Same dayOEM or better
Genuine or OE-quality parts with a traceable supply chain. No grey-box mystery components, no cut corners.
No grey partsOld parts in the boot
Ask, and everything we replace goes home with you. Proof of what was done — and of what actually needed doing.
Ask & keepTorque-wrenched, twice
Every wheel and critical fastener is torqued, checked by a second tech, and signed off on the job card by name.
Signed offBuilt by a
race mechanic.
Dan Mercer spent six seasons in a touring-car support paddock before opening Forge & Piston in 2009 — in a rented barn with one ramp and a kettle.
Seventeen years on, it's four bays, an alignment rig, a dyno cell and an MOT lane — run with the same paddock discipline. Everything torque-checked, everything documented, nothing out the door until it's right.
The kettle survived. So did the rule written above it: if it isn't good enough for our own cars, it isn't good enough for yours.
Straight from
the workshop.
Real bays, real jobs. Photography drops straight into these frames — until it does, the drawings hold the space.
STOP PUTTING
IT OFF.
MOT due? Odd noise? Map you've been promising the car since spring? Two minutes to book — we confirm within one working hour.
MOT while you wait — courtesy car subject to availability