14 years of experience
Professional welding experience behind Tom’s custom exhaust and fabrication offering.
About Wardale Engineering
Tom Wardale. Specialist stainless work.
Fourteen years of professional welding experience, applied to custom exhausts and fabrication for the vehicle or project you actually have.
14 years
Professional welding
NVQ Level 3
Welding & fabrication
£2m insured
Public liability
By appointment
Deal directly with Tom
The person behind the weld
A direct conversation.
A vehicle-specific brief.
Wardale Engineering is run by Tom Wardale, a solo owner working from Burton Cliff Farm in Lincoln. The focus is custom stainless steel exhausts, stainless fabrication and dry ice underbody preparation, for vehicle owners across Lincolnshire. Tom spent years as an industrial pipe welder before setting up Wardale Engineering to work closer to home and focus on the vehicles he enjoys most, including old Land Rovers, classic cars and American imports.
Alongside custom builds, Tom manufactures bolt-on exhaust parts for selected 4x4s: Range Rover L322 back box deletes and Land Rover Defender and Discovery TD5 exhaust parts, available on enquiry. For custom exhausts, a model name is only the start: previous modifications, available space, the preferred sound and the intended appearance all help define the job. The aim is to discuss your vehicle rather than force a catalogue specification onto a different layout.
For customers, dealing directly with Tom keeps the brief connected to the person doing the work. Explain what is wrong with the current system, what you want to retain and what you would like to change. For fabrication, bring the dimensions, drawings or sample-part details into the conversation from the start.
Mission & standards
Define the job properly before the work begins
A useful custom brief covers more than the visible tailpipe. Fit, mounting points, clearance, sound and the condition of the existing vehicle all matter. Tom’s NVQ Level 3 in Welding and Fabrication and certified thin-wall stainless tube codings provide a concrete foundation for discussing specialist stainless work.
The same clarity applies to underbody care. Dry ice blasting is a cleaning process; underseal is a protective treatment. Neither should be confused with repairing structural corrosion. Known rust, old coatings and previous repair work belong in the enquiry so the proposed scope reflects what the vehicle needs.
A lifetime warranty is available on custom stainless steel exhaust builds only. Ask Tom for the terms for your agreed build. It is not a general promise covering manufactured parts, fabrication, dry ice blasting or underseal. Free custom quotes let you discuss the scope before committing, without an invented universal price or turnaround.
Verified workshop credentials
Proof you can put into the conversation
Qualified & coded
NVQ Level 3 in Welding and Fabrication, with certified thin-wall stainless tube codings.
£2m public liability cover
Business insurance alongside an appointment-only workshop and a clearly discussed job scope.
Lincoln workshop · Regional enquiries
Plan your visit before travelling
All workshop visits are strictly by appointment, Monday to Friday, 7am–6pm. There are no walk-ins and no weekend work. Weekend vehicle drop-off and collection may be arranged in advance. Tell Tom if your vehicle is not roadworthy before organising independent transport.
Explore the services
Free custom quotes
Talk to the person doing the work
Send your vehicle details or fabrication brief, explain the result you want and agree the next step directly with Tom.
Lincoln workshop · Strictly by appointment · No walk-ins