Roadside · 10–15 min
Jump Start & Flat Battery Rescue Across the UK
Flat battery in a car park or on your drive? A jump start is usually the quickest job we do all day.
What it is
Most no-start calls are a flat or failing battery, and most are solved at the roadside in minutes. We test the battery and the charging system, so you find out whether you had a one-off drain or a battery that is about to leave you stranded again. If it will not hold a charge, we will tell you straight rather than jump it and drive away.
What you get
- Battery and alternator tested, not just jumped
- Safe for modern start-stop and EV 12V systems
- Honest answer on whether the battery is done
- Recovery if the fault is not the battery
When you need it
Four situationsthis covers
If one of these sounds like your afternoon, this is the right page. If none of them do, ring anyway — we will work it out with you.
Nothing happens when you turn the key
No lights, no click, no dashboard. Nine times out of ten this is the battery, and nine times out of ten it is sorted where the car sits.
It turns over slowly and gives up
The classic dying battery, and the classic cold morning. We will get it going, then tell you whether it will do it again tomorrow.
It keeps going flat
That is usually a failing alternator or a parasitic drain rather than a bad battery. We test the charging system so you stop replacing the wrong part.
You have left the lights on in a car park
The cheapest job we do. Ring, we come, you drive away, and there is no tow involved.
What it costs
One fixed price, agreed on the call
Priced on distance, time of day, whether the vehicle rolls and how accessible it is. No call-out fee and no hourly meter — and if the job turns out different from the description, we ring you before anything changes.
Where we cover
109 cities & counties
Across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We send the nearest available truck and tell you honestly how far out it is.
Coverage & response timesJump start
Questions about this job
Will a jump start damage my car's electronics?
Not the way we do it. We use a regulated lithium jump pack rather than clamping onto another running engine, which is where voltage spikes come from. On vehicles with a designated jump point we use that rather than the battery terminals.
Do you sell and fit batteries?
We test on site and will tell you honestly whether the battery is finished. Where we can supply and fit a replacement we will quote it on the call; where the battery is buried under a seat or needs coding to the car, that is a garage job and we will say so.
It is an electric car and it will not wake up.
Electric cars have a conventional 12V battery running the locks, screens and contactors, and when it dies the car looks completely dead. We can boost that 12V system safely. The high-voltage traction battery is a different matter — if that is flat, the car needs recovering to a charger.
Why test it if you can just start it?
Because a jump start on a battery that will not hold charge is a twenty-minute reprieve, not a fix. You would rather know in a car park than find out on a slip road.
More general questions are on the FAQ page.
Where we do it
Jump start across the UK
- London
- Reading
- Milton Keynes
- Brighton
- Southampton
- Portsmouth
- Oxford
- Luton
- Greater London
- Kent
- Surrey
- East Sussex
- West Sussex
- Hampshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Bedfordshire
- Isle of Wight
- Bristol
- Plymouth
- Gloucestershire
- Wiltshire
- Somerset
- Dorset
- Devon
- Cornwall
- Birmingham
- Coventry
- Wolverhampton
- Leicester
- Nottingham
- Derby
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Northampton
- West Midlands
- Staffordshire
- Warwickshire
- Worcestershire
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Leicestershire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Derbyshire
- Lincolnshire
- Rutland
- Norwich
- Cambridge
- Essex
- Suffolk
- Norfolk
- Cambridgeshire
- Manchester
- Liverpool
- Preston
- Greater Manchester
- Merseyside
- Lancashire
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Leeds
- Sheffield
- Bradford
- York
- Hull
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Sunderland
- West Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- North Yorkshire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Tyne and Wear
- County Durham
- Northumberland
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Aberdeen
- Lanarkshire
- Ayrshire
- Renfrewshire
- Lothian
- Fife
- Aberdeenshire
- Perthshire
- Angus
- Stirlingshire
- Highlands
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Scottish Borders
- Cardiff
- Swansea
- Glamorgan
- Gwent
- Carmarthenshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Ceredigion
- Powys
- Gwynedd
- Clwyd
- Anglesey
- Belfast
- County Antrim
- County Down
- County Armagh
- County Londonderry
- County Tyrone
- County Fermanagh
Other things we do
Emergency
Vehicle Recovery & Flatbed Towing
Tilt-and-slide flatbed recovery for cars, vans and 4x4s — your vehicle travels on the bed, not on its wheels.
10–15 min to loadEmergency
24/7 Breakdown Recovery
Broken down and going nowhere? We come to you, day or night, and get you moving or get you towed.
5–20 min, or loadEmergency
Accident & Collision Recovery
Post-collision recovery handled calmly — vehicle cleared, debris swept, your car taken where it needs to go.
20–40 min on sceneRoadside
Flat Tyre & Wheel Change
Puncture with no spare, no jack, or a wheel nut that will not move — we carry the kit for all three.
15–25 minPlanned
Vehicle Transport & Car Delivery
Planned, booked moves — auction collections, private sales, project cars, non-runners and off-road vehicles.
Booked slot
Need jump start now?
Call and describe what has happened. You will get a fixed price and an honest arrival time before anything moves.