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27 Carrick Drive, Tullamarine VIC 3043
Carrick Motors is at 27 Carrick Drive, Tullamarine VIC 3043, off Melrose Drive near the M80 Western Ring Road. The workshop is open Monday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm, with off-street parking and an early key drop. Melbourne Airport is about eight minutes away.
Carrick Motors is at 27 Carrick Drive, Tullamarine VIC 3043. Carrick Drive runs off Melrose Drive, the main north-south road through the Tullamarine industrial precinct that links the M80 Western Ring Road to the Melbourne Airport terminals.
People searching for directions to Carrick Motors are usually coming off one of those two roads. That location is why the catchment is as wide as it is. Melrose Drive feeds directly off the M80, so drivers from Keilor Park, Airport West and Broadmeadows all reach the workshop without crossing suburban traffic. The areas we serve across Melbourne’s north west page lists every suburb with its drive time.
Each page below carries the real route for that suburb: the roads, the turns, the leg-by-leg timing, the parking, and the honest answer on public transport. They are ordered by distance from the workshop.
| Directions page | Distance | Drive time |
|---|---|---|
| From Gladstone Park | 2.0 km | About 5 min |
| From Westmeadows | 3.5 km | About 7 min |
| From Melbourne Airport | 4.0 km | About 8 min |
| From Gowanbrae | 4.5 km | About 9 min |
| From Airport West | 5.0 km | About 9 min |
| From Keilor Park | 5.5 km | About 10 min |
| From Attwood | 5.5 km | About 10 min |
| From Broadmeadows | 6.0 km | About 11 min |
| From Niddrie | 7.0 km | About 12 min |
| From Essendon Fields | 7.0 km | About 12 min |
| From Greenvale | 8.5 km | About 13 min |
| From Essendon | 9.0 km | About 14 min |
Drive times are typical off-peak estimates. Verify your own run in your navigation app on the day, because the M80 interchange and the airport approach both move a great deal between 7am and 9am.
Most customers drop the car in the morning and collect at the end of the day. If that does not suit, there are three other options, and which one applies usually comes down to how far out you are.
Leave the vehicle before 8am and continue on to work. Call the day before so the job is queued rather than waiting to be identified.
Within roughly 10 kilometres of Carrick Drive we can often collect the vehicle and bring it back, subject to the workload that day.
Practical for short jobs. For anything longer, Gladstone Park Shopping Centre and Westfield Airport West are both a short drive away.
Bring the registration papers, the service book if the vehicle has one, and the locking wheel nut key if wheels need to come off. If you are booking an inspection to sell the car, book a service with Carrick Motors with the sale date in mind rather than the listing date.
Two things save people a second trip. The first is the street name trap: there is a residential Carrick Drive in Gladstone Park as well as the industrial one in Tullamarine, and navigation apps sometimes pick the wrong one. Check that the destination sits off Melrose Drive before you leave.
The second is timing an inspection. If the visit is for a roadworthy certificate at our Tullamarine workshop, remember that a Victorian certificate lasts 30 days from issue and a failed vehicle has 14 days to be repaired and re-checked before a full new test is payable. Transport Victoria sets both rules out on its roadworthy certificate page. Booking around those two windows is the difference between one inspection and two.
Questions we get asked
There is a residential Carrick Drive in Gladstone Park as well as the industrial one in Tullamarine. The workshop is the Tullamarine one, off Melrose Drive, and the street numbers there are low. If your navigation is sending you past number 100, you are on the wrong street.
Yes. There is off-street parking on site at Carrick Drive, which is an industrial street rather than a shopping strip, so kerbside space is usually available as well. You do not need to book a parking spot in advance.
An early key drop is available so you can leave the vehicle before 8am and continue on to work. Call ahead the day before so we know the car is coming and can start on it as soon as the workshop opens rather than working out whose it is.
No service stops at the door. Route 478 runs along Melrose Drive between Airport West Shopping Centre and Melbourne Airport and has a stop at the Carrick Drive corner, which leaves a short walk. Each suburb page below sets out the realistic public transport option from that suburb.
Add roughly a third to the drive times listed below between 7.30am and 9am. Melrose Drive backs up near the M80 interchange and the Tullamarine Freeway on-ramps carry airport traffic all day. A 9 minute run from Airport West is closer to 13 minutes at 8am.
Service recommendations, repair costs and completion times vary with the vehicle, the nature of the fault and parts availability. A vehicle inspection may be required before a final quote can be provided.
Pick your suburb above for the leg-by-leg route, or call the workshop and we will talk you in from wherever you are. Off-street parking is available and the early key drop is open before 8am.