Breakdown help · Thokar Niaz Baig
Four major roads meet here, which makes it the worst junction in Lahore to stop in and one of the easiest for us to reach. Tell us which arm you are on and we will come to you.
Switch off rather than inching forward, and leave the coolant cap alone. Tell us which arm you are on and we come to you.
Get clear of the running lane if it will still move at all. We confirm on site whether it is roadside work before anything is taken apart.
Forty minutes a day idling at this junction takes more out of a battery than most people expect. Tested, jumped and replaced on the spot.
Send the location pin from the form rather than typing an address. At this junction the pin is worth more than any description.
The helpline runs all night and on holidays. Send your location and a technician calls you straight back.
Thokar is not really a place, it is a junction, and that is exactly why it needs its own page. Multan Road, Canal Road, the Ring Road and the Motorway link all converge here, and a driver who breaks down says they are at Thokar when they could be on any of four roads heading in any of eight directions. Getting that wrong costs half an hour.
So the one thing worth telling us is which road you came in on and which way you were heading. Everything else can wait. With that, a technician goes to the right arm first time instead of circling the interchange looking for you.
The faults are what a permanently congested junction produces. Overheating in the queue, clutches that give up at the worst moment, and batteries on cars that spend forty minutes a day idling here. Because so many of our routes pass through this junction anyway, it is also one of the quickest places in the city for us to reach.
Which road you came in on and which way you were heading. That single sentence is the difference between the technician reaching you first time and circling an interchange with four arms looking for a silver car.
Usually quickly, because several of our regular routes pass through this junction anyway. You get a call back with a realistic window rather than a number chosen to sound good.
Only if you are genuinely off the carriageway and away from the slip roads. If you are on a running lane or on a flyover approach, get out on the far side and stand well clear, and tell us that when you call so the job is prioritised.
Send your location and a technician calls you straight back, at any hour.
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