Valley heat kills batteries faster than cold ever will. We bring the boost to you in Alamo, whenever the car quits.
A battery boost gets a stalled vehicle cranking again where it sits. In Alamo, most of these calls trace back to heat. Long Rio Grande Valley summers cook the inside of a battery, and one that started fine in March can give up in July with no warning click.
Ben's 24 Hour Towing handles battery boost and jump start calls throughout Alamo from our yard on North Cage Boulevard in Pharr, just up the road. If the boost holds, you drive off. If the battery is finished, we can tow you instead on the same call.
If the problem turns out to be fuel, keys locked inside, or a battery past saving, we handle those too.
Call (956) 702-4584 or (956) 683-5519 and tell us where you are.
The boost itself usually takes only a few minutes once a truck reaches you. Most of the wait is travel time, which depends on where you are in Alamo, the hour and traffic on Expressway 83.
Call us and we'll tell you honestly what the drive looks like from Pharr right then. Stay with your vehicle if it is safe, keep the hazards on, and pull clear of the travel lane when you can.
Heat is the main reason batteries fail early in Alamo. High summer temperatures speed up corrosion inside the battery and drive off fluid, which shortens its usable life well before the sticker date. Short trips around town make it worse, because the alternator never gets long enough to recharge fully. If your starter sounds slow on a hot morning, treat that as a warning rather than a one-off.
Not always. A battery can be drained by lights left on, a door not fully shut, or a long stretch parked, and it will recover after a good drive. But if your vehicle needs a boost more than once in a short span, the battery or the charging system is usually the real problem. Get it tested at a shop before it strands you somewhere less convenient.
Yes. We run light, medium and heavy duty equipment, so RVs, buses, box trucks and tractor units in Alamo get the same roadside battery service as a sedan.
Alamo has a steady population of RVs through the winter months, and those coaches often sit for long stretches between trips. Tell us the vehicle type when you call so we send a truck set up for it.
A dead battery in Alamo is rarely convenient — a grocery run on Business 83, an early shift, a parking lot in the heat. Ben's 24 Hour Towing answers those calls around the clock from Pharr, and we also cover San Juan, McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Hidalgo and Donna. Call (956) 702-4584 or (956) 683-5519 and we'll get you moving.