# How much does it cost to keep a car in storage in the UK?

Find out what it costs to store a car in the UK in our study of the Top 100 car storage facilities. 

We've spent a considerable amount of time and effort to create a database of well over 100 uk-based, car storage facilities so potential customers can find the perfect place to store their vehicles from a single search.

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We spoke to well over one hundred (100) managed vehicle storage facilities ie. those facilities that professionally manage the storage of cars, motorcycles and other vehicles, keeping them in the best working order whilst in their care. 

## So what does it cost for car storage in the UK?

Our study of the Top 100 car storage facilities gives you the insight you're looking in a concise report.

One of the best ways to use our Top 100 car storage facilities e-book is to help get informed on the average cost differences between car storage facilities across the country.

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**From the Top 100 car storage report you'll learn:**

- The most expensive place to store a car in the UK
- The least expensive place to store a car in the UK
- The average cost to store a car for a whole year / month / week
- The regions in the UK with the most car storage facilities
- The car storage facilities with the best reputation online
- The top 5 car storage companies on instagram

**And much, much more... get your copy now!**

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Use the Car Store Club to find professional car storage facilities where you need it most.

Find Car Storage Near You | Car Store Club

### What is the Car Store Club

Put simply, the Car Store Club is here for both car owners and car storage facilities.

> We're the UK's first and only online search engine for managed car storage.

Designed and inspired by car enthusiasts for other car enthusiasts with a need for more space, better security or just peace of mind that their pride and joy will be looked after properly and safely. 

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The Car Store Club is all about helping car owners find quality car storage quickly and easily whilst simultaneously delivering pre-qualified leads to forward thinking and conscientious car storage facilties.

If, as a supplier, you'd like to register your facility with the Car Store Club you can - [Register your Company Here](https://carstoreclub.com/admin/login).

### How does the Car Store Club work?

We've spent time and effort to create a database of over 100 uk-based managed car storage facilities so potential customers can find the perfect place to store their vehicles from a single search. 

[Check out the most recent Top 100 Car Storage facilities](https://carstoreclub.com/static/1/the-top-100-uk-car-storage-facilities-2021)

Using our search engine, each prospective customer has the option to request to be contacted by a number different car storage suppliers. Given the lack of supply and huge demand during the colder months we've allowed customers to select as many as 10 suppliers at a time.

> Our system then delivers the customers enquiry, matched to your facility, to your Car Store Club profile

[Register your Company Here](https://carstoreclub.com/admin/login).

You can review that lead and chose to either accept it or leave it for a competitor. 

You'll be given the following information to make that decision:

- **Type of Vehicle**: eg. Car
- **Length of storage**: eg. 6 months
- **More than one vehicle**: Yes / No
- **Preferred Storage Start Date**: eg. This month
- **Make/model/year**: eg. Porsche 911 1972

All leads will remain on the system for 3 days. 

Should you chose to accept the enquiry there is a small one-off fee to reveal that customers contact details and the rest is down to your sales team.

We see the Car Store Club really helping to fill new facilities or spare capacity all year round. We also understand that there maybe times when you might not needs us and thats ok to. 

Our service is pay as you go so there's no need to commit to any long term contracts. You're in control to turn the dials for as long and as often as your business needs.

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### Car Storage Top 100

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Our annual report is the first industry specific research into professional car storage. Across England, Scotland and Wales we've trcked down and spoken to car storage specialists like yours and created an invaluable insight to help your own business thrive.

### More to Come

Car Store Club is starting with car storage but we have many more exciting additions to the offering in the next few months.

### Exciting New Launches

Car Store Club will be launching an aggregator on the site for relevant services connected to car storage. We will bring car transport and car detailing to the site as well as a specialist finance and insurannce hub.

We have carefully vetted all the companies so we deliver only best in class services to our customers. 

### Who's behind the Car Store Club?

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**Marco Bertozzi**
A serial intreprenuer Marco has spent the last 25 years in all forms of TV and online advertising. Through Publicis Group, via Spotify and now as President EMEA for influencer company Whalar, Marco has always focused on digital media and high growth businesses.

As a serious pertrolhead Marco currently drives his 991 GTS daily (when not working from home) and has a 2000 Ferrari 360 Moderna which gets pampered and driven in equal measure having recently returned from a road trip through Italy. [Read more here](https://bertozzi49.com/background)

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**Nick Pauley**
Nick spent the last 20 years in digital marketing, charting the growth of his sector specific agency [Pauley Creative] through various domestic economic highs and lows. At 45 he seized upon an opportunity, sold the agency and changed direction.

Auto Classica Storage was born out of three key drivers; the acquisition of a large barn, a digital marketing experiment and a desire to follow his automotive passion. Now in its 4 year, the client-focussed, [award winning car storage business](https://autoclassicastorage.co.uk/) has a 150+ vehicle capacity with plans for futher growth in a variety of directions.



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What is the Car Store Club?

Dave Edmondson, the owner of East Lancashire, very kindly answered a few questions for us about his business and working with CarStoreClub.

**“Of all the leads I have paid for I would estimate 40-50% have taken storage out with us for varying lengths of time... delivering a good ROI.”**

Scroll down to read what else Dave had to say about his own experience of using the CarStoreClub website, purchasing the CarStoreClub lead packages and the quality of the subsequent leads he interacted with…

We have been operating since April 2022, in Darwen Lancashire. Our unit is 5000ft or indoor, clean, dehumidified and extremely secure. We also offer vehicle transport utilising our HGV transporter, tyre services, replacement punctures etc, full vehicle servicing and repairs along with valeting and detailing vehicles.

Q: We are bullish for the Car Storage industry, how would you describe your own experiences, what have been your highs and lows and what do you struggle with?

Experiences in the current economic climate and push for electric vehicles have seen what I believe to be an uplift in people requiring classic and prestige storage facilities for their vehicles. Indeed, that is how the business was established. I also have a wedding car company and couldn’t find suitable, clean storage for our vehicles in the area. The main struggles are providing a facility at a price most customers can afford. The first 3-4 months of business were extremely hard to get the word out there and get customers through the door.

Q: How do you go about new business, what are your primary techniques to fill your space? 

Our go to approach for marketing is through Google search and other social channels

Q: When did you first get wind of Cars Store Club?

We discovered Car Store Club as we were looking for different ways to create more demand and find new leads. Carstoreclub.com are also advertising on Google, so we discovered them there.

Q: What first attracted you to the concept of Carstoreclub, how did you settle on testing us? 

The concept was good and seemed to have leads for people requiring storage so made sense to us to try them.

Q: How have you found the process of using carstoreclub.com? 

The process early on was more frustrating as numerous leads were there but many of the contact details were incorrect meaning the cost of the lead was wasted as there was no way you could contact them. Carstoreclub listened to feedback and continued to work on functionality and make sure all leads were double verified. There are now lots of people who have now had to verify that they are actually looking for storage and not just window shopping.

Q: Would you say that across the time you have worked with us you have recouped all the costs of buying the leads?
Of all the leads I have paid for I would estimate 40-50% have taken storage out with us for varying lengths of time and so delivering a good ROI.

Q: Having worked with us for a while now, what other improvements would you like to see? 

I think the main one would be to sort leads into nearest to me; as some are coming through from over 50 miles away

Q: Most importantly, would you recommend CarStoreClub to other car storage facilities?

Yes. It is a good platform for storage facilities and now improvements have been made it is more financially worthwhile .


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# Why Britain's £19 million car storage business is booming

Autocar's Mark Smyth writes about Car Store Club's latest Top 100 Car Storage Facilities report and speaks to the founders Nick and Marco


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[Read the full article on Autocar here](https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-dealership%2C-sales-and-marketing/analysis-how-uks-car-storage-business-now-worth-)


The managed car-storage business in the UK is now worth more than £19 million a year, with nearly 15,000 cars currently in facilities around the country.

It’s an industry that's expanding for reasons including lack of space at owners' homes, pressure to switch to an EV for daily use and the increasing popularity of affordable classics.

> Nick Pauley of [Auto Classica Storage](https://autoclassicastorage.co.uk) and former Spotify executive Marco Bertozzi have teamed up to create the Car Store Club, which works with the industry and consumers to provide information on facilities around the UK and then match an owner’s requirements to a car-storage business.

The intention is to provide proper information to enable owners to make educated decisions but also to change the popular perception of the industry.

Currently it's one of secrecy, with cars from Aston Martin, Bugatti or Lamborghini hidden beneath tailored covers in discrete locations, but the reality is quite different, according to Pauley.

“I have a lot of conversations with people about the idea that car storage is a luxury,” he said. “Actually it's a necessity nowadays, because there are so many new homes that have gone up where the garage is so small that you can reverse a car in but you can't physically get out of it.”

Some are finding a solution in self-storage facilities. hile these don't offer the range of services of a managed car storage business, there are advantages, said Rennie Schafer, chief executive of Self Storage Association UK.

“People generally use a self-storage unit to store their vehicles for convenience and security,” he said. “Usually the self-storage facility is located close to their home so they can easily access their vehicle.

"While some vehicle-storage sites require notice to get your vehicle out, with self-storage you can turn up and access your vehicle whenever you want, as it's in a dedicated space for your vehicle that only you have access to.”

Self-storage is often cheaper, too. Some professional storage facilities cost thousands of pounds a year according to figures in the new Top 100 Car Storage Report.

[Compiled by the Car Store Club, this report is the first of its kind to look at facilities around the UK.](https://carstoreclub.com/pages/1/the-top-100-uk-car-storage-facilities)

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The report said the average period a car is stored is 12 weeks and the average cost is £167 per month, with the cheapest a facility in south Wales at £75 per month and the most expensive one in London at £650 per month.

Costs are also heavily dependent on the services offered. Many offer more than just storage: battery conditioning, tyre management, maintenance, detailing and car transportation, to name but a few.

Regardless of the costs, many facilities are full and looking to expand their capacity.

“There’s definitely been more interest in the last few years,” said John Prewett, owner of Car Locker in South Wales, which offers that unbeaten monthly fee. “People just don’t have the space. We’ve had to increase from one to three buildings over the past five years, and we’re looking at adding another in 2023.”

It’s not just lack of space driving the market: restrictions on vehicles in cities and the 2030 ban on sales of new ICE cars are also pushing up demand, said Tim Earnshaw, founder and MD of Windrush Car Storage, which has facilities in London and the Cotswolds.

“Collectible cars have always been popular, and while there's a cycle of ownership (buy, store and sell down the line), having a special car is always something people will enjoy,” he said. 
“With the looming ICE ban, some are buying the last of the analogue cars to save and enjoy. Plus, modern classics are now attainable and many owners want to ensure they are preserved.”

In some cases, it's the purchase of an EV that's responsible for an owner choosing to put their ICE car into storage.

> “There are going to be a lot of people who go out and buy something electric like a Volkswagen ID 3 or whatever [for their daily runaround] but also say 'I want to pop this [classic] away and take it out for the occasional weekend, a long trip or weekend away',” said Bertozzi.

Equally, as EVs gain in popularity, some firms are also seeing a trend towards EVs themselves being stored.

“EVs are already seen as a plaything, and we store a number of prestigious EVs used solely for fun, and we also have the odd EV-converted classic and numerous hybrid supercars,” said Earnshaw.

Whether it’s an expanding collection, lack of space, a weekend plaything or the love of a car that's part of the family, the managed car-storage business appears to be thriving.

Whatever the reason to store a car, it looks as though those 15,000 spaces might not be enough to satisfy demand in the years ahead.

It’s not only about [supercars](https://autoclassicastorage.co.uk/supercar-storage/)

Professional car storage isn't all about Ferraris or Bentleys: it’s often about the cars that people aspired to own when they were young, such as hot hatches, a BMW M3 or a Porsche 911.

As people get older, they gain the disposable income to own the car they've always wanted, but they don’t have the space for it and don’t want to leave it parked on the driveway or the road.

[“Cars evolved into something that was an aspirational thing to have when you were a teenager,” said Pauley. “Now a lot of these people have reached the point in life where they've got disposable income and they've got cars, but they've also got a family and no space for the cars. It all puts pressure on a storage industry that used to be all about storing high-end prestige cars and now is equally about storing a weekend-warrior car.”](link)

That certainly seems to be the case at many of the facilities we spoke to, with Prewett saying his firm stores everything from basic family runarounds to cars at the top end of the collectible scale.

This phenomenon is also apparent at Windrush. “We store everything from Ford Capris to the latest supercars with valuable classics in-between,” said Earnshaw. “It’s not about the value of a car, it’s the owner’s passion for it, and if they love their cars, they're willing to pay for it to be cared for at the highest level.”

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# How To SORN and UNSORN Your Car

If you don't intend to insure your car due to it not being used for a period of time you will need to tell the DVLA you’re taking your vehicle off the road, for example if you’re keeping it in a garage or a storage facility. 

This is sometimes called a ‘Statutory Off Road Notification’ (SORN).

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Funnily enough, ‘how to unsorn your car’ is a question we get asked quite often.

It’s sometimes quite cost effective to SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) your vehicle while it’s in long term storage.

Sorning your car, or making a SORN, is basically the correct way to take your car off the road whilst not being legally obliged to pay to insure it.

This can have obvious financial benefits whilst your car is laid up however the down side is that you may not be racking up your ‘no claims’ bonus.

Either way, if you made a SORN for your vehicle prior to storage there will no doubt come a time to un-SORN it too.

As tricky as unsorning your car sounds, its actually quite easy.

All you need to do is tax it!

Simple as that.

This is what the Gov.uk website says in full…

Your SORN is automatically cancelled when you tax your vehicle again or it’s sold, scrapped or permanently exported.

Read all the info on ‘When you need to make a SORN” It also confirms how to unsorn your car too.

You should perhaps also check that your MOT and car tax are still current. And make sure you insure your classic vehicle too before heading off into the sunset.

>  You can use the GOV.uk site to check the status of any car so long as you have it’s registration. Use the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dvla

Remember, you don’t need to physically unsorn your car:

- Taxing your car will cancel any SORN
- If you need an MOT, you can only drive the car if it’s to a garage for a pre-booked MOT
- You must insure and tax your car before you drive on the road

Remember also that, since the introduction of Continuous Insurance Enforcement (CIE) in 2011, your classic car must remain insured while not being used unless you make a SORN. You can apply to make a SORN here.

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Caveat…

Obviously the government has been known to alter vehicle, driving and road tax laws every now and then, so always check the Gov.uk website if you are in any doubt.

Start here  – [https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving](https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving)

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# The UK's best car storage facilities

The very first TOP 100 list for the car storage industry carried out by our researchers at the Car Store Club.

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From here you can check out the best professional car storage facilities in the UK. 

> **Get your copy now! Use the form below to get a Link to our exclusive Top 100 Car Storage Facility E-Book.**

The Most Expensive Car Storage in the UK • The Cheapest Place to Store a Car in the UK • What it Costs to Keep a Car in Storage Near You • The Largest Capacity Car Storage in UK and much, much more...

This report is the UK’s first industry specific research into professional car storage. 

From our own knowledge and fastidious research the Top 100 car storage facilities in the UK e-book was born.

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Across England, Scotland and Wales we’ve tracked down and spoken to these oft-secretive car storage specialists and asked the questions you always wanted to know.

> Looking for long term storage for an M3 along the M4? No problem. Or perhaps short term storage for a Bristol in Bethnal Green? We have you covered.

While the idea of car storage may at first seem elitist, the fact is, there is a fast growing industry of enterprising enthusiasts converting farm buildings and warehouses into professional and accessible car storage facilities for car enthusiasts across the UK.

So, if secure space is one of the key barriers stopping you from realising your dream car, we’ve created a an online resource tool to take the stress of [finding trustworthy car storage facilities.](www.carstoreclub.com)

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