Breakdown help · Multan Road

Stopped on Multan Road?

A heavy commercial route with rough surfaces and a lot of dust. Get well off the carriageway, then send the pin and a stocked van comes to wherever the car gave up.

Illustration of Multan Road Lahore with lorries in dusty traffic and a stopped car on the shoulder

Before anything else

  • Heavy vehicles need distance to stop, so get further off this carriageway than you think you need to
  • Hazards on, and everybody out of the car and away from the traffic side
  • Do not attempt a wheel change on the carriageway side of the car here
  • If visibility is poor with dust or at night, say so when you call

Call us when this happens

Losing power and running rough

On this road a choked air or fuel filter is the first suspect. Cheap and quick to put right once somebody actually looks rather than guesses.

Overheating in slow traffic

A radiator packed with dust cannot cool at walking pace. Switch off early, and we check the fins, the fan and the coolant on site.

Tyre or rim damage from the surface

Sidewall damage cannot be repaired safely. We will tell you plainly whether it is a repair or a replacement.

Stopped with lorries passing

Get as far off the carriageway as you can and stand well back from the road. Send the pin from where you are, not the address you set out from.

Need someone in Multan Road now?

The helpline runs all night and on holidays. Send your location and a technician calls you straight back.

What this road does to a car

Multan Road carries a lot of goods traffic between Chauburji and Thokar Niaz Baig, and that changes both the road and the cars on it. The surface takes a beating from heavy axles, the air is full of brick and construction dust for long stretches, and a car that commutes here daily is working in conditions closer to a building site than to a city street.

The most common thing we are called to is a car that has gradually lost power and finally started running badly, and the most common cause is the cheapest one: an air filter or fuel filter that has silted up. It is worth checking before anybody quotes you for anything expensive, and it is the first thing our technician looks at on this road.

The other two are overheating, because a radiator that is packed with dust cannot shed heat in slow traffic, and tyre damage from the surface. Neither is unusual anywhere in Lahore. Both are considerably more common here than the city average.

Where we get called on Multan Road

  • Chauburji and the city end
  • Sabzazar and Samanabad frontage
  • Hanjarwal
  • Park View and the Ring Road southern link
  • Thokar Niaz Baig approach

Frequently asked questions

Why does my car keep losing power on this road?

Usually dust. Air filters and fuel filters silt up faster on this route than almost anywhere in the city, and the symptom is a gradual loss of power that people often mistake for something serious. It is one of the cheapest things on a car to put right.

Do you come out as far as Thokar?

Yes, and beyond it. Thokar Niaz Baig, the Ring Road southern link and the societies off this road are all inside our normal coverage.

Is it safe to keep driving to a workshop?

If the temperature gauge is climbing, no. Driving an overheating engine is how a cheap repair turns into a head gasket or a replacement engine. Stop, switch off and call. That is the whole reason we come to you.

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