Guides
Breakdown Guides & Advice
Practical, plain-English advice for the moments when something goes wrong with your vehicle, written by people who deal with breakdowns every day.
Breakdown guides
- How much does car recovery cost in the UK?What affects the price, what’s included and how to avoid surprises
- Car won’t start? Causes and what to doWhat clicking, no lights or cranking-but-not-firing usually means
- Flat battery: jump start or recovery?How to jump start safely and when it won’t help
- Wrong fuel in your car? What to doPetrol in a diesel or diesel in a petrol: what to do right now
- What to do after a car accidentSafety, the details you must exchange, police, insurance and recovery
- Car stuck in Park: shift lock releaseHow to get an automatic into neutral with a dead battery
- Tesla tow modePutting a Tesla in neutral, and what to do with a flat 12 V battery
- Kia and Hyundai shift lock releaseGetting a Kia or Hyundai out of Park with a flat battery
- Which car to buy: a recovery man's guideThe makes we recover most, and what we'd buy ourselves
- Car Won't Start in Birmingham? What to Do NextPractical guidance if your car won't start in Birmingham — what the symptoms can mean, what we need to know when you call, and how to reach us 24/7.
Motorway safety
- Breaking down on a smart motorwayEmergency areas, red X signs, when to stay in the car, and getting recovered
Working in recovery
- How to start a breakdown recovery businessTruck, licence, insurance, where the work comes from and the mistakes to avoid
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