Serekunda · Kombo Sillah Dr · Since 2011
A mobile mechanic working out of Kombo Sillah Drive, covering Serekunda, Kanifing, Bakau, Fajara and the stretch out to the airport road. If your car won’t start, won’t stop, or is making a noise you don’t like, you call once and we bring the tools, the parts and the jack to wherever the car is sitting.
What we tell every customer
Most breakdowns in this town are not big jobs. A dead battery, a dry radiator, a brake pad worn to the metal. What makes them expensive is the waiting. So we stopped waiting. We load the van and we drive to the car.
— Churchill, owner and lead mechanic
Services
Everything below is done on site — at your house, your office compound, the roadside, or the car park you’re stuck in. If a job genuinely needs a lift and a workshop, we say so on the phone before we come out, and we tell you what it will cost.
01
Jump starts, battery testing under load, terminal cleaning, alternator and charging checks. If the battery is finished we can bring a replacement — tell us the car and we’ll confirm the size and the price before we leave.
02
Pads and discs, brake fluid, seized calipers, handbrake adjustment, and the grinding noise that means you’ve left it too long. Brake work is the one job we will not rush — you get a road test before we call it done.
03
Punctures, spare fitting, wheel swaps, pressure checks and balancing advice. We carry a jack, a brace and a compressor, so a flat in the middle of the Kombo Sillah stretch doesn’t need a tow.
04
Overheating, coolant loss, radiator and hose replacement, water pump, belts, head gasket checks, oil and filter changes. Overheating is the number one killer of engines here — call us the moment the gauge climbs, not the next day.
05
Warning lights, no-start electrical faults, starter motors, alternators, wiring, lights, windows, wipers, central locking. We read the fault codes before we touch anything, so you’re paying for a fix and not a guess.
06
Full service at your address: oil, filters, plugs, fluids, belts, suspension and steering inspection, tyre condition, lights. Popular with people driving up-country or sending a car to the provinces — we check it properly before you go.
How it works
Tell us the car — make, model, roughly what year — and what it’s doing. A noise, a light, a smell, a puddle. Describe it in your own words, that’s enough. We’ll ask two or three questions and usually know what we’re dealing with before we hang up.
No mystery. If it’s a battery, you get a number. If it’s something we need to see first, you get a call-out price and an honest range for the repair. If it’s a job we can’t do on the road, we tell you straight away and point you to a workshop that can.
We bring the tools, the jack, the diagnostic reader and the common parts. You don’t need to move the car, you don’t need to arrange a tow, and you don’t need to take a day off work to sit in a waiting room.
Why people call us back
Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sunny, Honda Civic, the older Mercedes diesels, the imported Japanese saloons, the pickups that do the market runs. We’ve worked on all of them, in the heat, with the dust, on the same roads you drive.
A mobile mechanic is only useful if the van actually carries what the job needs. Ours carries a full socket set, jacks and stands, a compressor, a battery tester, a code reader, coolant, oil, belts, bulbs and the common brake and battery parts.
Nobody likes a bill that grew while they weren’t looking. We quote before we start. If we open something up and find a second problem, we stop and call you — we don’t just carry on and add it to the total.
Eight-thirty in the morning until midnight, Monday to Saturday. Cars don’t only break in office hours, and a lot of our work happens after dark when the traffic on Kombo Sillah Drive has finally thinned out.
Opening hours
If you call outside these hours and it’s urgent, leave a message — we pick up first thing and we’ll call you back before we start the day’s jobs.
| Monday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
| Saturday | 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM |
| Sunday | Closed |
Find us
Churchill’s Town Mobile Shop
Kombo Sillah Dr
Serrekunda
Kanifing, The Gambia
Coming from Kairaba Avenue, head towards Serekunda market and look for us on the Kombo Sillah Drive stretch. If you’re not sure, call and we’ll talk you in — or better, we’ll just come to you.
This is the fastest way to reach us and the only way to book a call-out. Ring it, don’t email it — the phone is answered by the person who will actually be doing the work.
The make and model of the car, roughly what year, and where it’s parked. If you know the nearest landmark or the name of the compound, even better — it saves us both a phone call.
If the car is sitting there and it won’t go, that’s already our problem.
724 4423