Battery jumpstarts and replacement.

As one of our roadside assistance services, we can replace or jumpstart your car's dead battery. A licensed driver is sent out and will either provide a jumpstart or fit a new battery, changing it out on the spot.

We are equipped with jumper boxes, so a dead battery can be started regardless of where the car is parked. It is worth saying that jumping a vehicle has to be done correctly — done incorrectly it can damage the car’s computer, which is a far more expensive problem than the battery was.

If a car starts on a jump and dies again shortly after, the battery is usually not the fault — it is more often the alternator failing to recharge it. Worth knowing before paying for a replacement battery that will be flat again by the end of the week.

A jump start puts enough charge in to turn the engine over. What happens next is the diagnosis. If the car runs and keeps running, the battery was drained — lights left on, a door not shut, a short trip that never let it recover — and it will likely charge back up as you drive. If it starts and then dies again within minutes, the charging system is not doing its job, and a second jump buys the same few minutes as the first. Either way, get it somewhere it can be tested rather than relying on repeat jumps. A battery that has been run flat several times rarely comes back to full health even once the underlying fault is found.