How the roster works

A roster built from what workshops publish.

Torque Roster is a list of 45 source-checked Australian mechanics and repair shops in 29 localities, spread over NSW, the NT, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and WA. It exists so you can walk into a workshop already knowing what it says it does, and what to ask about the job on your car.

Where a workshop's details come from

Each workshop started as a public place record, many of them from Overture Maps. We kept it only after its name, town and trade lined up with the workshop's own website. Records whose identity or location pointed two ways were dropped. The source checks were made in September 2026.

Nineteen workshops publish a list of services, and those headings appear on their pages as written. Thirty-three print a phone number on their site, so we show it. Twenty-five could be matched with certainty to their public map listing in September 2026: for those we show the Google rating with its review count, and opening hours for the three that list them. A match needs the name, the place and the website to agree.

Order and town pages

The roster is ranked by Google review count. A town page goes to search engines only once it holds three or more workshops; the ranked city pages that do are listed below. The other town pages stay on the site and in the locations list.

What you will not find

Roadside assistance, car dealerships and parts retailers are out of scope. So are prices and trade credentials, because a workshop's website rarely proves them.

Fixing an entry

If a workshop has moved, closed or asked to come off, email support@torqueroster.com.au with the page address and a link that shows the change. Removal requests we have recorded are checked before every update. We never pass messages on to a workshop for you. Place data credits are on the data licences page.

How listings are ranked

Ranked by the number of Google reviews: the business with the most reviews comes first, and where two have the same number the higher rating leads. The ratings are Google's figures as held in our data in October 2026, not an assessment by Torque Roster. Businesses without a Google rating follow the ranked list, alphabetically. The directory page ranks every business Torque Roster holds, and each city page ranks the businesses in that city. Each city page shows its most-reviewed 100 as cards and the next 200 in a compact ranked list below them, and a city with more continues on numbered pages of 250; the directory page shows its most-reviewed 100 as cards and the rest of the 2,000 most-reviewed in a compact list.

Businesses from public map listings

Torque Roster also holds 7,000 mechanics taken from their public map listings, as held in our data in October 2026, ranked alongside the source-checked listings and marked "Public map listing". A business is included only with at least five Google reviews, a primary category that matches this directory, and a location that can be placed from its own address or map coordinates. A business on our removal list is never included. These businesses have not been read against their websites. Each has a profile (7,000 in all) showing its name, suburb, listed type, Google rating with the review count and the city page it is ranked on, with a link to its own website or its Google Maps listing. Where our data holds them, a profile also shows the services the business's own website lists and an ABN matched on the Australian Business Register. Where the public map listing holds them, a profile also shows the business's street address, phone number and opening hours (the street address for businesses that trade from premises), as held in our data.

Ranked city pages offered to search engines: Adelaide, Alice Springs, Ballarat, Brisbane, Cairns, Castlemaine, Central Coast, Darwin, Geraldton, Gympie, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Toowoomba, Warrnambool, Gold Coast, Canberra, Geelong, Wollongong, Hobart, Townsville, Logan, Bendigo, Caboolture, Mackay, Pakenham, Launceston, Bundaberg, Maitland, Mandurah, Bunbury, Hervey Bay, Wagga Wagga, Ipswich, Bowral, Lismore, Nowra, Port Macquarie, Albury, Shepparton, Tweed Heads, Coffs Harbour, Rockhampton, Taree, Wodonga, Dubbo, Orange, Ballina, Batemans Bay, Bathurst, Grafton, Mildura, Gladstone, Mudgee, Tamworth, Busselton, Queanbeyan, Sale, Devonport, Echuca, Griffith, Airlie Beach, Warragul, Warwick, Bairnsdale, Emerald, Esperance, Traralgon, Cessnock, Forster, Gawler, Karratha, Nelson Bay, Yeppoon, Albany, Horsham, Moe, Morwell, Mount Gambier, Mount Isa, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Armidale, Goulburn, Inverell, Kalgoorlie, Kempsey, Margaret River, Maryborough, Portland, Victor Harbor, Wangaratta, Broken Hill, Broome, Burnie, Dalby, Innisfail, Mareeba, Port Hedland, Swan Hill, Ulladulla, Whyalla, Charters Towers, Colac, Kingaroy, Parkes, Port Pirie, Bowen, Byron Bay, Carnarvon, Hamilton, Huskisson, Katherine, Stanthorpe and Young.