3120 Foundry Road, Long Island City, NY 11101 · (718) 555-0142
Every car we sell is prepared in our own bays at Foundry Road, by the same four technicians who look after cars we sold years ago. The room is open to owners whether the car came from us or not — servicing, inspection, detailing, indoor storage, and the parts that are getting hard to find.
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We keep the work we do well in-house and are open about the work we send out. Nothing is sublet quietly, and nothing leaves the building without you knowing where it went.
Factory service schedules, kept to the interval rather than to the odometer. OEM or specification-equivalent parts, and a stamped record that follows the car.
The parts of a fast car that quietly go off long before they fail. Measured on the alignment rack, not judged by eye.
The same 140-point inspection every car on our floor goes through, available to owners and to buyers of cars sold elsewhere.
Done over days, not hours, in a lit booth with the wheels off. Paint is measured before anything touches it.
Engine-out work, gearbox rebuilds, structural repair and paint go to named marque specialists we have used for years. We tell you who is doing it and what it costs before the car moves, we transport it there and back ourselves, and the invoice comes from us — so there is one person to call if something is not right.
Plans exist because scheduled work is cheaper than remembered work. Each one covers labor and the routine consumables; anything beyond that is quoted and approved before it happens.
For a car that is driven
The annual service and the checks around it, booked ahead so the date is already in the diary.
Most owners choose this
For a car that is used seriously, shown occasionally, and expected to be right every time it is asked for.
Everything in Essential care, plus:
Kept here
The car lives in the climate-controlled room and is delivered to you when you want it. Twelve months of storage is in the price.
Everything in Collection care, plus:
Plan prices cover labor and routine consumables and exclude parts, tires and applicable taxes. Billed annually or monthly, cancelable with 30 days’ notice, and transferable to the next owner if the car is sold.
Storage in the vault is subject to space. Cars stored on a plan are covered at an agreed value confirmed in writing before the car is accepted.
Low mileage is not the same as low wear. Most of what goes wrong with a stored or lightly-used exotic is time-based, and almost all of it is cheap to prevent.
| Item | Interval | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Engine oil and filter | 12 months | Or the factory mileage, whichever comes first. Short trips contaminate oil faster than distance does. |
| Brake fluid | 24 months | Fluid absorbs moisture whether the car moves or not. This is a time job, never a mileage one. |
| Coolant | 4 years | Inhibitors break down and start attacking alloy. Cheap to change, expensive to ignore. |
| Gearbox or clutch fluid | 37,000 miles | Dual-clutch units are sensitive to fluid condition long before they show symptoms. |
| Tires | 6 years | From the date code, regardless of tread depth. Aged rubber is the single most common fault we find. |
| Battery and charge | Continuous | Anything parked more than two weeks belongs on a maintainer. Modern cars never fully sleep. |
| Four-wheel geometry | Annually | And immediately after any curb strike. A tenth of a degree eats a set of front tires. |
| Air conditioning | 3 years | Seals dry out on cars that sit. A regas is minor; a compressor is not. |
| Ceramic or film | 2 – 3 years | Inspected annually, topped up before it fails rather than after. |
Indicative only, excluding parts and applicable taxes. Every job is quoted in writing after inspection, and no work starts before you have approved that figure.
The estimate is written, photographed and itemised. If we find something else once the car is up, the car stops and the phone rings — there is no such thing as a surprise on the final invoice.
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Tell us the car, the mileage and what it is doing. The form below or a phone call — both reach the same desk.
Confirmed same day
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Leave it at Foundry Road, or we collect enclosed within 25 miles. A loan car can be waiting either way.
Your choice
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The car goes on the lift and gets photographed. You receive a written estimate, itemised, with anything urgent flagged separately from anything that can wait.
Within 24 hours
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Line by line. Decline whatever you like — we will note it and remind you next time rather than argue about it now.
Whenever suits
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Every car is road-tested, washed and photographed before it goes back. Invoice, photos and the updated record land in your inbox.
Delivered or collected
Forty-two cars sit behind one door at Foundry Road, at a steady 18°C and 45% humidity, on a monitored floor with the cars we own. Nothing is stacked, nothing is sheeted over dust, and nothing is moved without a note in the file.
A real person reads every one of these. You will hear back within one business day with a date, an estimate range, and a sensible question or two if something is unclear.
Helpful if you have it
If it is not drivable
Do not risk it. We will send a flatbed anywhere in New York State and quote it before it rolls — recovery is far cheaper than the damage a limped-home car arrives with.
Service desk, Monday to Friday 08:00–18:00. service@halloway.example
We buy through factory supply for current models and through a network of marque specialists, dismantlers and auction contacts for everything else. If a part exists somewhere, we will usually find it — and we will tell you honestly when it does not.
Send the VIN, the part if you know it, and a photograph of what came off. Most inquiries come back with a price and a lead time inside two business days; genuinely rare items take longer and we will say so up front.
Request a part Call the parts deskIf something here is not covered, the service desk will answer it plainly on the phone — including the answers that are not in our favor.
No. Roughly half the cars in the bays on any given week were bought somewhere else, and a good number of them belong to people who have never bought a car from us at all. The work, the rate and the booking priority are the same either way.
The only thing being a customer changes is that we already hold the car’s history, which occasionally saves an hour of diagnosis.
Modern exotic and performance cars — broadly, the German, British and Italian machinery we sell day to day, plus most collector cars from the last forty years.
We would rather turn a car away than learn on it. If it is outside what we know, we will tell you on the phone and, where we can, point you at the specialist we would use ourselves.
Having a car serviced outside the franchise network does not by itself void a manufacturer warranty, provided the work follows the factory schedule and uses parts of the correct specification. We keep a stamped record and retain the invoices and parts numbers, which is what a manufacturer asks for if a claim is ever questioned.
Warranty terms vary by manufacturer and by market, so check your own booklet — and if a car is under an extended or approved-used plan, call us first and we will read the terms with you rather than guess.
A service is usually a day. Brakes, geometry and inspections are typically one to two. Detailing and protection work runs three to five days because it is done in stages and paint needs time between them.
Anything longer is because a part is coming from abroad, and you will know that on day one rather than day ten.
Yes, subject to space — the room holds forty-two cars and is usually close to full through the winter, so book early. Minimum term is three months, and the car needs current insurance and a clean bill of health from an inspection before it goes in.
Storage can be taken on its own at $420 a month, or as part of the vault plan, which folds in the servicing and the exercise drives.
Not in-house. Paint and structural repair go to a specialist we have used for years, and we handle the transport, the inspection on return and the invoice. Correction, protection film and ceramic work we do here.
Yes, and we do it often. The 140-point inspection is $850, includes a written and photographed report, and takes about four hours. If the seller will not release the car for a day, that is worth knowing on its own.
The report is yours. We do not share it with the seller, and we will not tell you a car is fine to be polite.
The cheapest work we do is the work that was scheduled. Tell us the car and roughly when it last had attention, and we will tell you what it is due, what it is not, and what it will cost.
Speak to the desk
Monday to Friday, 08:00–18:00. Drop-off from 08:00, collection until 18:30 by arrangement.