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English-speaking garage near Haarlem

Car mechanic in Vijfhuizen: experience from far away.

The story of Senna Auto Service starts in a workshop in Brazil, with a 14-year-old boy and his uncle.

Today the workshop is in Vijfhuizen, in Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland. We look after customers from Haarlem, Hoofddorp, Amsterdam and the whole region, many of them expats. You explain the problem in your own language, and you get the diagnosis and the price before we start. See our services or check your APK date.

Inside the Senna Auto Service workshop in Vijfhuizen, with cars on the lifts

  1. Brazil

    First day in the workshop, at 14

    Carlos starts working with his uncle in a car workshop. What began as a way to learn a trade becomes a passion.

  2. 13 years

    Practice, every day

    Every day beside his uncle, on every kind of car. He learns more than mechanics: responsibility, honesty and respect for the customer.

  3. Europe

    A new chapter

    Before opening his own business, Carlos spends two more years at a European workshop to master the cars and standards here.

  4. The customers

    "You need your own workshop."

    Many Brazilians couldn't find a trustworthy mechanic they could actually talk to. They came to Carlos. Trust grew, and more and more people said it out loud.

  5. Today

    Senna Auto Service

    We look after Brazilians, Dutch and Arab customers and people from many other places. They all want the same thing: to know their car is in good hands.

The team

Over 35 years in the trade between the two of them.

Carlos, founder of Senna Auto Service

Founder and mechanic

Carlos Ferreira

Started at 14 with his uncle in Brazil. After 13 years there and two more at a European workshop, he opened Senna Auto Service.

Luiz, right-hand man at Senna Auto Service, talking with a customer

Right-hand man

Luiz

Spent 20 years in Japan working with cars. Today he works alongside Carlos at the workshop in Vijfhuizen.

Red Nissan Silvia S15 with a big rear wing in the Senna Auto Service yard

Japanese cars and JDM

From the family car to the Silvia S15.

Luiz spent 20 years in Japan working with cars. You notice it in the workshop: Japanese and JDM cars are handled by people who know them up close, from the Nissan Silvia S13 and S15 to your everyday Japanese car, from servicing to track builds. Prefer Japanese? We speak it too. See all services.

Our way

Good service starts before we touch the car.

Every car that comes in here is a responsibility. It takes you to work, the kids to school, the family on holiday. That's why: quality, honesty and care in every job.

  1. Listen to the customer.
  2. Understand the problem.
  3. Explain what needs doing.
  4. Work transparently.
  5. Hand back a car you're happy with.
Red Nissan Silvia S15 being repaired at the Senna Auto Service workshop in Vijfhuizen
The workshop in Vijfhuizen.
Mini Cooper on the lift at Senna Auto Service
Everyday cars on the lift.
The workshop yard with a green Nissan S13 and everyday cars in the rain
The yard: everyday cars and Japanese builds.

Experience from far away.Trust earned every day.Quality in every job.

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Achterasweg 3, Vijfhuizen. Between Haarlem, Hoofddorp and Amsterdam. Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 18:00.

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