Roadside assistance in Ottawa from Barrhaven Towing is one number, one call, one truck on the way. (613) 619-4545 reaches a real dispatcher 24 hours a day. Whatever has stopped your car, we send the help that fits.
Most calls are not crashes. They are dead batteries on a January morning, a flat tire on Hunt Club Rd, an empty fuel tank halfway home, or keys locked inside a parked car. Roadside service is what handles those calls without escalating into a full tow when the car can still be saved on the spot.
Roadside service from Barrhaven Towing covers four core jobs that get most drivers back on the road without needing a tow at all. Battery boost. Flat tire change. Fuel delivery. Lockout entry.
If a quick fix is not possible on scene, the same truck can tow the vehicle wherever it needs to go. You get one call, one driver, and one bill.
Ottawa winters are hard on cars. Temperatures drop below minus 25 for weeks at a time. Batteries that ran fine in October stop turning over by January. Tires lose pressure overnight. Door locks freeze. Fuel lines on diesel vehicles gel up.
The result is a spike in roadside calls from November through March. We staff for it. Extra trucks, extra dispatch lines, and drivers who have done this through ten Ottawa winters. If your car will not start in a Barrhaven driveway at 6 a.m., we have someone available to come.
If your car will not start in extreme cold, repeated cranking can drain whatever charge is left and damage the starter. Two or three tries is the limit. After that, call for a boost. We arrive with the right cables and the right amperage so the car starts safely the first time.
Some calls happen on repeat. Roadside service is the right answer for most of them.
Each of these has its own dedicated service page if you want the full detail. See dead battery boosting, flat tire replacement, fuel delivery, or car lockout. Roadside assistance is the umbrella that ties all four together when you do not want to figure out which service you need before calling.
A breakdown is bad enough. A breakdown in Ottawa traffic is worse. Sit-down call volume on Highway 417 between the Hunt Club and Maitland exits is the busiest stretch we cover. Bank Street through the south end, Merivale Rd through Nepean, and the rural rolling sections of Manotick and Findlay Creek all see their share of calls.
When you call, give us the closest cross street, exit number, or landmark. Ottawa has a lot of duplicate street names and short residential roads that GPS sometimes mishandles. A clear landmark gets the driver to you faster than an address alone, especially on highway shoulders where pulling over is unsafe.
If your car has stopped and will not restart, do not try to push it off a live lane on your own. Stay buckled inside with hazards on. Call us with your location. We bring a truck either way. If it is a battery, fuel, or tire issue, we fix it on scene. If it is bigger, we tow the vehicle to your chosen destination.
For full breakdown tows, see our emergency towing in Ottawa page. For everything under the towing category, see our towing service in Ottawa page.
The four core jobs are battery boost, flat tire change, fuel delivery, and car lockout entry. If we can fix the issue on scene, you do not need a tow at all. If the problem is bigger, the same truck can tow your vehicle wherever it needs to go.
From our Greenbank Rd base in Nepean, most roadside calls inside Barrhaven, Nepean, Riverside South, and South Keys are reached in 20 to 35 minutes. Calls further into Gloucester, Findlay Creek, or Manotick can take a little longer in heavy traffic or winter weather.
Yes. We dispatch roadside trucks across the Ottawa-Gatineau area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. A real person answers the phone at 3 a.m. just like at 3 p.m.
Yes. Cold weather battery boosts are the most common roadside call we handle from November through March. We use professional jump packs that match the amperage your vehicle needs, even on diesel pickups and SUVs that ordinary cables cannot start in deep cold.
Yes, if you have a usable spare. The driver swaps your flat for the spare on scene, checks pressure, and gets you back on the road. If you have no spare or the wheel is too damaged to be replaced safely on the shoulder, we tow you to a tire shop instead.
Pricing depends on the service and your location. A boost or lockout inside city limits is a flat call-out. Fuel delivery includes the cost of fuel plus the delivery fee. Tire changes and out-of-city calls are quoted per job. Call (613) 619-4545 for a real quote before dispatch.
Barrhaven Towing dispatches roadside trucks across the Ottawa-Gatineau area 24/7. One call covers boosts, tires, fuel, and lockouts.
(613) 619-4545
See all towing options on our Towing Service Ottawa category page.
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