A babysitter for your car

What’s the worst thing about owning a car? Surely, it has to be the amount of time it takes to maintain the thing.

Servicing the car can take days, depending on which components are needed at any given time, potentially leaving you without a mode of transport. Detailing the car can be even worse, buffing out scratches and cleaning dirty wheels has to be right up there with organising the shed as some of the most annoying weekend tasks. Even buying and selling a car isn’t made easy, with the copious amounts of paperwork and the seemingly endless hours poured into researching a car’s specifications and history.

There has to be a better way. Don’t you just want to enjoy all the best parts of owning a car, the pure driving pleasure, showing it off to your friends, just appreciating the sheer beauty of it all, without the need to waste time with everything else? Luckily for you then, and if you happen to be in that unique situation where you have too much money and not enough time, you can enlist the help of some unique services to help you spend more time enjoying your car, rather than maintaining it.

Lube Mobile, famous for that catchy jingle, is a mobile mechanic that will carry out car servicing whether you are at home or at work.

“We come to you at a time and place of your choosing to perform a cost competitive, warranty safe service,” says Paul Sayer, Director of Lube Mobile. Probably the most well known, and widely-used, service on our list, Lube Mobile promises a 12 month/20,000km warranty on parts and labour, high-quality parts and competitive pricing, all while offering the convenience of coming to you.

Car Care works much the same way as Lube Mobile does, however, instead of focusing on servicing your car, Car Care will clean and detail your car. Even supplying their own power and water, Car Care promises to make your car look its best without the need to get your own hands dirty.

Clayton Bespoke is a service tailored to take care of the buying and selling of your car. Dealing primarily with prestigious brands, the team at Clayton Bespoke will value, repair and detail your car, putting it in the best condition possible to be sold at the best price. Clayton Bespoke also sell cars that pass a certain criteria: low mileage, rare and desirable, and based in Sydney.
 
Scooter Skipper is a different sort of personalised car service. Say you headed out for the night and find yourself having had one too many drinks. How would you get your car home? You would call Scooter Skipper. Someone will actually ride out to your location, on a foldable scooter of course, and drive you and your car home, ensuring your car gets tucked in safe at home and no next day excursions to pick it up. Unfortunately though, this service is only available in Perth at the moment.

The most complete and comprehensive personalised car service you can get has to be from Carcierge. Designed to be as unobtrusive to your day-to-day activities as possible, Carcierge handles absolutely everything associated with owning a car.

Michael Simon, owner and operator of Carcierge, says that “it’s essentially a one point of call concierge for anything to do with motoring, whether its organising service and maintenance to detailing and cleaning, buying and selling to even airport transfers.”

It looks like Carcierge takes care of it all, without stress, hassle or worry. However, Carcierge is aimed at the upmarket client, with an annual subscription fee of $2750 per year (that’s excluding any third party costs like parts and labour) and the service is limited to Melbourne.

If you are too busy (or just have too much money) these services will take care of all the annoying things about your car, leaving you to enjoy only the good parts. And let’s be honest, there is nothing quite like the pleasure of taking your freshly serviced, recently detailed car of choice out for a spin on a beautiful sunny day.