Car Dealership Furniture & Showroom Fixtures: Custom Manufacturing

A dealership sells with light and space before anyone opens a door. The furniture carries the customer from the forecourt to the handover bay, and that path — reception, lounge, configurator table, delivery bay — is what a fixture package has to solve.

Walk the customer's path before you draw

Time the walk from the entrance. A customer is greeted within six metres, sits, stands to look at a car, then sits again for handover, and each moment needs a different surface at a different height.

Reception needs a transaction top at 1,050 to 1,100 mm with a lower work surface behind it. The lounge needs tables around 400 mm. The handover desk needs 1,400 mm of clear top so two people can sit with a tablet and a folder between them. Draw that path on the plan and the furniture positions itself.

Reception: the key drop and the cable run

A dealership counter greets, holds keys and hides equipment. Ask for a lockable key cupboard with a numbered rack inside the body, not a drawer — a drawer of loose fobs is where keys get lost.

Specify two 60 mm cable ports and a 100 mm service gap in the back panel so the counter can be pulled forward without cutting wiring. Forecourt traffic brings grit in on shoes, so a matte solid surface at the transaction top outlasts polished glass or thin laminate.

The lounge wall that sells service plans

The lounge is where the second sale happens, and it is usually wasted on a coffee machine. A 400 mm deep wall unit with a lit upper section for accessories and a closed lower section for paperwork gives the advisor something to stand beside.

Keep the lit section between 1,200 and 1,700 mm and use 4000 K strips with high colour rendering so alloy wheels read as they do outdoors. Anything below 900 mm is dead space in a lounge.

Plinths, turntables and floor protection

A plinth looks simple until two tonnes sit on it. Specify the load, the point load at each wheel, and whether it carries a turntable; a turntable needs a recessed ring, a service hatch and a power drop.

Plinths are normally 150 to 200 mm high with a bevelled edge, and the top must not mark when tyres are dragged across it. On polished concrete, put a sacrificial plate under every corner.

Order, sample and landed cost

Send the floor plan, vehicle dimensions, power positions and opening date. A factory that builds dealership furniture returns a drawing showing counter heights, cable ports, plinth loads and fixing points, not a catalogue page.

Ask for one sample counter front in the final finish, and confirm packing: counters ship as knock-down carcasses with the solid surface top crated separately, because a one-piece counter will not pass a showroom door. We quote DDP, so freight, clearance and duty to your site sit in the number you sign.

Send your showroom plan, the number of cars on display and your opening date, and we will return a free 3D design with a fixed quotation; we manufacture, inspect and deliver DDP. Start at the contact page.