Light Duty Towing · Nassau County
Light Duty Towing in Kings Point, NY, for Cars, SUVs, Vans, and Pickups
A sedan dead in a Kings Point driveway, an SUV with a transmission that let go at a light, a pickup that lost a wheel bearing in a parking lot. These are light duty tows, and Macarthur sends its own flatbeds and wheel-lifts from Valley Stream for them around the clock. Tell us the year, make, and model and where it is going. Call 516-362-5350.
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What Drivers Say About Macarthur Before Kings Point Calls
The Google reviews below are from drivers who called Macarthur for a tow or a roadside fix, which is exactly what a Kings Point driver is doing when they call 516-362-5350. The same trucks, the same drivers, and the same yard in Valley Stream answer Kings Point.
I got locked out my car on a cold snowy night and Alex came and unlock my car. He was very quick and professional. I would definitely use this towing company again.
Great timing and professionalism. The tow truck driver Carlos was experienced and helpful. I would recommend this company and Carlos to anyone.
Not the usual experience with a towing company. Everyone that I spoke to was polite and respectful and they towed my car with care. Hopefully I never need my car towed again, but if I do, this is who I will be using!
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If a Macarthur driver has helped you in Kings Point, a few words on Google is how the next driver there finds us.
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What Light Duty Towing Covers for Drivers in Kings Point
Light duty towing covers passenger cars, SUVs and crossovers, minivans, work vans, and pickups, loaded or empty. In Kings Point that is the no-start in the driveway, the breakdown on the way to work, the car that should not be driven after a hit, and the car that simply needs to get to a shop across the county. Macarthur sends a flatbed or a wheel-lift from Valley Stream, 24 hours a day.
"Light duty" is the towing trade's name for everything that is not a truck, bus, or trailer. For a Kings Point driver it means the vehicle in the driveway: a Honda or Toyota sedan, a Subaru or a Jeep, a minivan full of car seats, a contractor's van with the day's tools in the back, a half-ton pickup. All of these ride on Macarthur's flatbeds or wheel-lift wreckers, which are the trucks that make up most of the fleet at 170 East Lincoln Avenue in Valley Stream.
The reasons are the ordinary ones. The car will not start and a jump did not fix it. It overheated and should not be run another mile. The transmission revs without moving. A tire shredded and there is no spare. It was in an accident and a wheel is not pointing straight. Or nothing is wrong at all, and the car needs to go to a dealer, a buyer, or a storage unit without putting miles on it. Each of these is a routine job for a driver who does several a shift in Kings Point, Lake Success, Lakeview, and the rest of Nassau County.
What light duty towing does not cover is anything on a commercial chassis: box trucks, cutaway vans with a box, buses, dump trucks, and tractor trailers. Those need the heavy wrecker, and the heavy duty towing in Kings Point page covers them. If you are not sure which side your vehicle falls on, tell us the make and model and we will say.
Car, SUV, van, or pickup in Kings Point? This is the tow for it.
What a Light Duty Tow From Kings Point Costs and How Macarthur Quotes It
A light duty tow from Kings Point is priced on the distance to the drop-off, the vehicle, whether a flatbed or a wheel-lift is needed, whether winching or recovery is involved, and the time of day. Macarthur quotes it on the phone before a truck is sent, and the quote is the price unless the job turns out to be different from what was described.
Distance is the biggest factor: the miles from where the car sits in Kings Point to where it is going, so give both addresses. The vehicle and the truck come next; a compact on a wheel-lift is a smaller job than an AWD SUV on a flatbed, and the year, make, and model tells us which it is. Recovery work, winching a car out of a ditch, off a lawn, or out of a snowbank before it can be loaded, is priced as recovery; tell us how the car is sitting and we include it. Night and holiday calls are priced as such, and we say so on the phone.
What does not move the number is whether you use our body shop, because you are never required to. What we will not do is quote low to get the truck to Kings Point and climb once the car is on the hook. If the job on arrival is what you described, the quote is the price. If the driver finds a different job, a car described as in a driveway that is actually in a garage with no clearance, or a car that was "on the grass" but is in a ditch, he tells you the new number before he touches the car, and you decide.
Payment is settled with the driver or the office; ask when you call about how you would like to pay. The how a tow is priced section on the towing page goes through each factor in more detail.
Both addresses and the vehicle get you a quote before the truck rolls.
Flatbed or Wheel-Lift for Your Kings Point Car: How the Choice Is Made
A flatbed carries the car on a deck with all four wheels off the road and is required for all-wheel-drive, electric, hybrid, lowered, and damaged vehicles. A wheel-lift raises one axle and is quicker for a short move of a front-wheel-drive car that just will not start. Macarthur picks the truck for a Kings Point tow from the year, make, and model you give us.
A Kings Point driver with a front-wheel-drive sedan that will not start and a mechanic a few miles away usually gets the wheel-lift: the yoke slides under the front tires, that axle comes up, the back wheels roll, and the car is gone in a couple of minutes. It is also the truck that fits where the flatbed does not, in a narrow driveway, a tight lot, or a garage with a low entrance. For everything else, the flatbed comes.
An all-wheel-drive crossover, a hybrid, an electric car, a lowered coupe, or anything with a bent wheel, a broken axle, or front-end damage goes on the flatbed, no exceptions. Towing an AWD on two wheels spins the center differential dry; towing an EV on two wheels turns its motors into generators the system is not expecting; towing a damaged car on a rolling axle finishes the damage. The flatbed winches the car up a tilting deck and straps it at the tires so nothing turns. The flatbed towing in Kings Point page goes into each of those vehicles.
If you want the flatbed for a car that does not technically need it, because the car is new, or leased, or you have had a bad tow before, say so. If the right truck is available, you get it. The how we pick the truck section on the towing page has the full comparison.
AWD, EV, or lowered? Say so and the flatbed comes to Kings Point.
The No-Start in a Kings Point Driveway: Jump It, Replace the Battery, or Tow It
A car that will not start in a Kings Point driveway is usually a battery, and the truck that comes can jump it and test whether it holds a charge. If it will not, we can install a new battery there and skip the tow. If the starter is clicking with a good battery, or the engine turns over but never catches, it needs a shop, and the same truck tows it to the mechanic you choose.
The most common light duty call from Kings Point is the morning no-start. The car sat for a few days, the lights were left on, the battery is five years old, or the cold got it. Before anyone talks about a tow, the driver puts a jump pack on it and tests the battery under load. If it holds, you drive. If it does not, mobile battery installation puts a new one in on the spot, which is cheaper than a tow to a shop that will tell you the battery was dead.
When the battery is fine and the car still will not go, the truck is already there. A starter that clicks, an engine that cranks but never fires, a fuel pump that went quiet, a key that will not turn: all of these need a lift and a diagnostic computer, and the car goes on the truck to your mechanic or the dealership. The driver does not push the car, roll it into the street, or try to start it repeatedly to get it onto the deck; a flatbed winches it up from where it sits, and a wheel-lift picks it up in place.
Driveway access is the thing to mention on the phone. A steep driveway, a car parked nose-in against a garage door, a second car behind it, or a tight turn from the street changes how the driver sets up and sometimes which truck he brings. Tell us how the car is sitting and whether anything is behind it, and the load goes smoothly. The breakdown towing section on the towing page covers overheating, transmissions, and warning lights.
Car dead in the driveway? The truck jumps it, replaces the battery, or tows it.
Parking Lots, Garages, and Tight Spots: Getting a Car Out in Kings Point
A car stuck in a Kings Point parking lot, a parking garage, or a tight apartment lot is a routine light duty tow, but the setup depends on the space. A flatbed needs room to tilt its deck and a clear path; a wheel-lift fits almost anywhere and clears a low garage entrance. Tell us where the car is and the posted clearance, and the right truck comes.
Parking lots are the easiest: the driver pulls the truck in line with the car, and if the car is nosed into a space he either winches it out backward onto the deck or lifts it from the rear and pulls it clear. Tell us the business name and which side of the building the car is on so the driver is not circling the lot, and whether the car is in a space, in a lane, or blocking something.
Parking garages are where the truck choice matters. A flatbed is tall, and most garage entrances in Nassau County are posted well below its height. If your car is in a garage, give us the posted clearance; we send a wheel-lift for a car that can take one, or, for an AWD or an EV that must ride on a flatbed, the wheel-lift brings the car to the garage exit on dollies and the flatbed takes it from there. A car on an upper level with a tight ramp is the same job with more care.
Tight apartment lots, narrow driveways with a car behind yours, and cars parked against a fence or a wall all come down to the same thing: tell us how the car is sitting. The driver has long ramps, boards, dollies, and a winch, and he has gotten cars out of tighter spots in Kings Point, Lake Success, and Lattingtown than the one you are describing. What he cannot do is guess from the street, so the call is where the plan gets made.
In a garage in Kings Point? Tell us the posted clearance when you call.
Where a Light Duty Tow From Kings Point Goes: Mechanic, Dealer, Tire Shop, Driveway, or Our Shop
Macarthur tows to the destination you choose. From Kings Point that is most often your own mechanic or a dealership for a breakdown, a tire shop for a flat with no spare, your driveway for a project car, or our own collision shop in Valley Stream for a car with body damage. You are never required to bring the car to us.
Breakdown tows mostly go to a mechanic or a dealer. Give us the shop's name and address. If it is closed when the truck arrives, we can leave the car in their lot and put the keys where they ask, or bring it to our yard overnight and run it over when they open; say which when you call, because it changes the quote and the handoff. For a flat with no spare, a bent wheel, or a run-flat that was driven too far, the truck goes to the tire shop you name in Kings Point or anywhere else in Nassau County.
A car with body damage has the shortest path to our own collision shop at 170 East Lincoln Avenue: one tow, one estimate, and one company talking to your insurer, and under New York law the body shop is your choice, not the insurer's. The collision repair in Kings Point page explains how that runs. If you would rather the car went to your own body shop, it does.
Project cars, cars coming home from a shop that could not fix them, and cars bought as-is get placed in your Kings Point driveway where you want them, within reason, because a flatbed needs room to tilt the deck and a clear path for the car to roll off. Cars bought at auction or from a private seller get picked up and delivered, with photographs before loading and the VIN checked against the title you send; the long distance towing page covers moves beyond the county.
Tell us the address and that is where the car goes.
One Company for the Tow and the Repair When a Kings Point Car Was in an Accident
If the light duty tow from Kings Point is an accident tow, the truck brings the car straight to Macarthur's own manufacturer-certified collision shop in Valley Stream, where the same company writes the estimate, hosts the insurer's inspection, and handles the claim. No second tow, no storage yard in between, and one phone number from the scene to the finished repair.
Most of the delay in a collision repair happens before anyone touches the car: it sits at a tow yard, waits for an inspection, waits for a second tow, and then waits for an estimate that has already been written once. Because Macarthur's trucks and Macarthur's body shop are the same business, a car recovered in Kings Point is in the shop's lot the same day, and the estimate, the photographs, and the adjuster's inspection all happen where the car will be fixed. The accident recovery in Kings Point page covers the scene and the first calls.
The shop at 170 East Lincoln Avenue is certified by Honda and Acura, Nissan, Infiniti, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, and Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, is I-CAR Gold Class, and repairs every make and model to the manufacturer's procedure; the plaques are on the certifications page. Under New York law you choose the body shop, not your insurer. If you would rather the car went to your own mechanic or dealer, it does.
The same light duty fleet covers Lake Success, Lakeview, Lattingtown, and every other town in Nassau County. See everything we do for Kings Point, or find another town on the locations page.
Car in Kings Point damaged in a crash? One call covers the tow and the repair.
Macarthur in Kings Point: One Shop in Valley Stream, Every Service, and the Rest of Nassau County
As a Nassau County town, Kings Point is inside the area Macarthur's own trucks run every day and night from Valley Stream. Towing runs 24 hours a day; the shop is open Monday through Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 12 PM. Every service has its own page for Kings Point, and light duty towing has a page for every town in Nassau County.
Everything else Macarthur does in Kings Point. On the towing side, Kings Point drivers can read about Towing, Heavy Duty Towing, Flatbed Towing, Motorcycle Towing, Long Distance Towing, Accident Recovery, Roadside Assistance, Jump Starts, Car Lockouts, Fuel Delivery, Tire Changes, Mobile Battery Installation, and Equipment Hauling. At the body shop, the pages for Kings Point cover Collision Repair, Auto Body Repair, Auto Painting, Frame Repair, Auto Glass Replacement, Bumper Repair, Dent Repair, and Insurance Claim Repair. Each one is written for the service, with Kings Point as the starting point and the shop at 170 East Lincoln Avenue in Valley Stream as the destination when a car needs to come in.
Light Duty Towing in the rest of Nassau County. The same trucks that cover Kings Point cover Lake Success, Lakeview, Lattingtown, Laurel Hollow, Lawrence, Levittown, Lido Beach, Locust Valley, Long Beach, and Lynbrook, and every other town on the locations page. Nassau County has 129 towns on this site, and each has a page for light duty towing. For the service itself, without the Kings Point angle, read the light duty towing page; for everything the fleet does, start at the towing hub; and for all 22 services in one place for Kings Point, open the Kings Point page.
One company, one phone number. The truck that comes to Kings Point and the body shop that repairs what it brings back are the same business, registered with the New York State DMV (7110205) and licensed by New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (1389419), with the certifications photographed on the certifications page. The about page says who we are and the contact page has hours and directions. Call 516-362-5350 any hour.
Everything Macarthur does for Kings Point, on one page.
Questions Kings Point Drivers Ask About Light Duty Towing
- What counts as light duty towing in Kings Point?
- Passenger cars, SUVs and crossovers, minivans, work vans, and pickups. Box trucks, buses, and tractor trailers are heavy duty and get the heavy wrecker.
- Do you tow in Kings Point at night and on weekends?
- Yes. Towing runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. Call 516-362-5350 any time.
- Will my car in Kings Point go on a flatbed or a wheel-lift?
- All-wheel-drive, electric, hybrid, lowered, and damaged vehicles go on a flatbed. A front-wheel-drive car that will not start and is going a short distance can go on a wheel-lift. We choose from the year, make, and model you give us.
- Can you tow a car that does not start out of my Kings Point driveway?
- Yes. A dead or seized vehicle is a normal tow. The driver winches it onto a flatbed or lifts it in place; he does not push it or roll it into the street.
- Can you jump my car in Kings Point first instead of towing it?
- Yes. The truck carries jump packs and tests the battery. If the jump holds, you drive. If the battery is done, we can install a new one on the spot. If it is not the battery, the same truck tows the car.
- My car is in a parking garage in Kings Point. Can you get it out?
- Usually. Tell us the posted clearance. A flatbed is tall, so we send a wheel-lift for a car that can take one, or bring an AWD or EV to the garage exit on dollies for the flatbed.
- Where will you tow my car from Kings Point?
- Wherever you say: your mechanic, a dealership, a tire shop, your driveway, or our collision shop in Valley Stream. You are never required to use our body shop.
- Do you tow pickups with a load in the bed?
- Yes. Tell us what is in the bed and roughly how heavy, so the driver straps the load and brings the right truck.
- Will you tell me the price before the truck comes to Kings Point?
- Yes. We quote on the phone from your location, vehicle, and destination. If the job on arrival is what you described, the quote is the price.
- Can I ride along with my car?
- Often, yes. It depends on the truck, how many people are with you, and the situation. Ask the driver when he arrives.
- Does Macarthur cover Kings Point?
- Yes. Kings Point is in Nassau County, inside the area Macarthur's own trucks run from Valley Stream 24 hours a day. Light Duty Towing and every other service on this site is available to Kings Point drivers.
- Where is the shop for Kings Point drivers?
- 170 East Lincoln Avenue, Valley Stream, NY 11580. Shop hours are Monday through Friday 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 12 PM. Towing to and from Kings Point runs around the clock.
- Do you offer light duty towing in other towns around Kings Point?
- Yes, in every town in Nassau County and the rest of the service area. Each town has its own light duty towing page, listed on the locations page.
- What other services does Macarthur bring to Kings Point?
- Fourteen towing and roadside services and eight body shop services, each with a Kings Point page. The Kings Point page on the locations section links to all of them.
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Call Macarthur for a Light Duty Tow in Kings Point
Our own flatbeds and wheel-lifts, our own drivers, 24 hours a day. Tell us the make and model and where it is going.
Call 516-362-5350