A turbo-charged digital configurator for wheel enthusiasts

Industry:

Automotive aftermarket & wheel services

Timeline:

2 weeks

Impact:

+31% more configurator completions

Multi-device screens illustrating slick automotive configurator ux for tyre services

Introduction

Your site should roar like a V-8, not idle like a lawn-mower. That’s why automotive website design sits at the top of every aftermarket to-do list, yet TW Performance’s old pages still behaved like a dusty manual. KUBE Studio slid the brief across our Slack: give this wheel-obsessed brand a digital tune-up, add a self-serve configurator, and keep the rev counter in budget.

Picture Lukas, a BMW die-hard scrolling the tyre service page at 11 p.m. He wants fresh powder-coating for his M3 alloys. Two clicks in and, boom, he’s hit by chunky paragraphs, no clear price, no way to spec the job. Lukas closes the tab and throws another site into the search bar. Multiply that shrug by a few hundred weekend hobbyists and you can guess where the missed revenue hides.

We didn’t tinker; we rebuilt the route.

A punchy hero, pricing tiles straight under the fold, and an eight-step wheel configurator that steers even sleep-deprived petrolheads from “nice idea” to “send quote” without email ping-pong. All crafted in Adobe XD, ready for devs to drop into a custom CMS, no page-builder bloat, no excuses.

Desktop view of a polished vehicle service website redesign with clear pricing plans
Mobile configurator steps from a modern wheel repair website design project

Project background and goals

KUBE Studio came to us with a straight-shooting brief: TW Performance, a growing wheel-repair and detailing shop, needed an automotive website design that did three things fast.

  1. Convert late-night scrollers into quote requests. Weekend hobbyists hunt powder-coating prices at odd hours, so the site had to sell while staff were asleep.
  2. Showcase the new wheel configurator. The client had sketches for a tool that lets drivers choose size, colour, and finish in under a minute. The concept looked great—on a napkin.
  3. Land everything in a seven-week sprint for under €1,800. No creeping scope, no surprise add-ons, no page-builder crutches.


Those goals point to the same headache you might feel right now: traffic flows in, but calls barely budge. A sharper vehicle service website redesign flips that script by trimming clicks, clarifying prices, and giving users instant ways to act.

The problem under the bonnet

Before we touched a pixel, we ran a one-day audit and found three friction points:

  • Buried prices – copy boasted about “premium plasma powder coating” yet dodged the actual euro figure. 85% of users bounced before reaching the quote button.
  • Maze-like menus – desktop navigation listed ten services; mobile navigation showed four different ones. Good luck finding tyre storage.
  • Static pages – the so-called configurator link opened a PDF form. PDF forms belong in 2003, not on a phone in 2025.


Those misfires plague many sites in the motor trade. If your auto repair website design hides costs or forces users to call for every little detail, you bleed leads to the garage down the road.

Bold powder-coating hero section that exemplifies sharp auto repair website design
Service pricing comparison table on the revamped wheel-service site

Our route to a faster pit stop

We boiled the solution down to four laps:

  1. Plot the buyer journey. We sketched a simplified funnel—home → service → configurator → quote. Anything outside that route hit the cutting-room floor.
  2. Build wireframes with words, not lorem. Using the client’s own copy where possible kept the wheel-repair narrative crisp. If a sentence didn’t earn its spot, it went to the scrapyard.
  3. Design high-fidelity mocks in Adobe XD. Desktop first, then the top five mobile breakpoints, including the entire eight-step configurator. Each screen carried inline red-lines, so devs didn’t chase spec docs.
  4. Run two feedback sprints with hard deadlines. Comments closed 48 hours after each round. That pace kept us inside budget and pushed the configurator live before summer tyre-switch season.


Because TW Performance’s dev team handles its own WordPress stack, we left out Elementor and friends. They got pure design assets, ready to slot into their custom theme without plugin bloat. That’s how any solid wheel repair website design should roll.

Tools that kept the wheels turning

  • Adobe XD – wireframes, UI kit, clickable prototype
  • Slack – daily check-ins, emoji approvals
  • Dropbox – single source for brand photos, icon SVGs, and the asset ZIP
Additional services section displayed in the upgraded automotive interface
Tablet views of product-selection flow inside the custom wheel configurator

Inside the wheel-configurator funnel – a closer look

Ask hobby drivers why they bail mid-quote and they’ll mumble “Too many steps.” We kept their patience in mind and built our automotive configurator UX around 3 golden rules:

  1. Always show progress. An 8-step breadcrumb (“1 / 8 Choose size”) keeps anxiety low and curiosity high.
  2. One decision per screen. Width, diameter, finish, clear-coat, each gets its own panel with a single CTA. Fewer choices per view equals faster taps and fewer second guesses.
  3. Live price ticker. Numbers update after every choice, so no one fears a surprise total at the end, an easy lift you can replicate in any vehicle service website redesign.


This micro-flow slashed abandonment from 41% to 18% and, bonus, gave TW Performance cleaner data. They now know exactly which wheel sizes and colours drive the most enquiries, so stock orders finally match demand.

Scalability built in

KUBE’s devs wanted a design that snaps onto future features without redraws. We:

  • Modularised every block in XD, cards, accordions, testimonial sliders, so adding services like ceramic coating is a drag-and-drop job.
  • Tokenised the style guide, colour, spacing, typography variables ride alongside the artboards, ready for a design-system hand-off.
  • Left room for language toggles. Heading lengths and button widths accommodate German, English and the inevitable “coming soon” Spanish market.


Put simply: the site’s chassis is strong enough for extra horsepower when the client scales, yet light enough to stay fast today.

Quick rim-size selection screen within the interactive configurator journey
Final enquiry form showcasing streamlined booking on the new car-service site

What happens if you keep the status quo?

Your next visitor might scroll, sigh and fling their hard-earned cash at the shop down the A3. Every day you wait, your rival’s quote form scoops another wheel refurb you could have booked.

Book your pit-lane inspection

Give us half an hour on Google Meet and we’ll pinpoint the four biggest speed bumps on your pages, in plain language, no fluff, zero obligation. Slots this week are almost gone; grab one now before they’re buried under tyre-change season requests.

Book a quick 30-min video call, let’s plug the leaks before your traffic skids off-track.

UX strategist mapping sprint tasks on flip-chart while developer reviews code on phone and laptop, Studio Ubique office
Designer pointing at code review on monitor during pair-programming session with developer, plant-filled Studio Ubique workspace
Colleagues checking website mock-ups on laptop in bright corridor, blurred team in background, Studio Ubique design agency Mobile coffee cart barista serving cappuccino to UX designer in sunlit hallway, Studio Ubique team break
Team lunch-and-learn: three coworkers discussing project over salads and laptop in airy Studio Ubique café-style area Studio Ubique team walking with client, showcasing new website on laptop while chatting in modern white corridor
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Remote UX sync: designer video-calling teammate on desktop monitor, taking notes in minimalist Studio Ubique office

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