24 Hour Car Recovery on the M25 from J6 to J10 with Guaranteed Attendance
Cars, vans and 4x4s recovered along the southern M25 from Godstone to Wisley, day and night. The price is agreed on the phone before we set off, with no separate call-out fee.
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Yes, we cover the M25 from J6 at Godstone to J10 at Wisley, 24 hours a day, for cars, vans and 4x4s, and we guarantee attendance on every job we confirm. The price is agreed on the phone before we dispatch, with no separate call-out fee, and a motorway callout on the M25 runs from £250 to £750 depending on location. This stretch, all in Surrey, is about 19 miles and takes in the M23 at J7, Reigate Hill at J8, Leatherhead at J9 and the A3 at J10.
Our attendance guarantee
Once we have confirmed your job with you and agreed the price, we guarantee to attend. We cannot give an arrival time, because it depends on where you are and, where the police or National Highways are managing the scene, on when they allow access. The price is agreed before we set off, with no separate call-out fee. The guarantee does not extend to the Dartford Crossing itself or its approach roads, where only a constable or traffic officer may move a vehicle.
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The M25 from J6 to J10: an overview
This stretch of the M25 runs for about 19 miles by the driver location signs, along the southern edge of the orbital, from the A22 roundabout at Godstone (J6) to the A3 interchange at Wisley (J10). All of it is in Surrey, and none of it enters Greater London. In between you pass the M23 stack at Merstham (J7), the A217 at Reigate Hill (J8) and the A243 at Leatherhead (J9), with Cobham services on the south side between J9 and J10. Junction numbers rise clockwise, so clockwise traffic here is heading broadly west and anticlockwise traffic broadly east.
From J5 to J8 the M25 follows the edge of the North Downs, and beyond the M23 stack it runs close to the Surrey Hills National Landscape. The junctions sit close together at first: on Department for Transport link lengths, J6 to J7 is 3.0 miles and J7 to J8 is 3.3 miles, before the gaps open out to 6.5 miles to J9 and 5.6 miles to J10. All five junctions are full-access interchanges, so there is no missing slip road in either direction.
Broken down on the M25? Get to safety first
If your vehicle breaks down, your safety comes before the car. The Highway Code (rule 277) says to leave the motorway at the next exit or pull into a service area if possible, and National Highways says not to stop in a live lane unless absolutely necessary. If you cannot leave the carriageway at the next exit or pull into a service area, follow the three steps below. A hard shoulder gives less protection than other places of relative safety (rule 275).
Step 1, go left. Move into the left lane. Pull into an emergency area or onto a hard shoulder if you can, and stop as far to the left as possible, leaving space to exit your vehicle, with your wheels turned to the left and your hazard lights on (use sidelights too if it is dark or visibility is poor). If you can, stop just beyond an emergency telephone.
Step 2, get safe. If it is safe and possible, exit the vehicle by the side furthest from traffic and make sure passengers do the same. Wait well away from the vehicle and moving traffic, behind the safety barrier where there is one, aware of unseen hazards such as sudden drops, uneven ground or debris. Do not stand where your vehicle could be forced into you. Do not return to the vehicle, even if it is raining, cold or dark, and do not attempt repairs or put a warning triangle on the carriageway.
Step 3, get help. Use the free emergency telephone and face the traffic while you speak. If you have not stopped near one, or you cannot get out of the vehicle, call 999 immediately and ask for the police, or press your vehicle's SOS button if it has one and ask for the police. Tell them if you are a vulnerable motorist, such as disabled, older or travelling alone. In an emergency area you must use the emergency telephone and follow the operator's advice before you leave (rule 278), because a lane may need to be closed so you can rejoin.
If you cannot reach a place of relative safety and cannot get out safely, stay in the vehicle with your seat belt and hazard lights on, and call 999 and ask for the police (or press your SOS button if your vehicle has one). Rule 279 gives the same advice if you have a disability that stops you following these steps. If you cannot use an emergency roadside telephone because of a speech or hearing impairment, National Highways takes texts for roadside assistance on 0738 028 3600.
Call us once you are somewhere safe: behind the safety barrier, well away from your vehicle and moving traffic, after you have spoken to National Highways or 999, or in a service area or off the motorway. Tell us your direction of travel (clockwise or anticlockwise), the last junction you passed, and the registration, make and model. Quote a marker post or driver location sign only if you can read it from where you are safely waiting. Do not go back to the vehicle to find details. Do not wait for us in or beside a live lane.
Junction by junction: M25 J6 to J10
J6 Godstone: the A22 roundabout
J6 is a roundabout interchange where the A22 and the B2235 (Godstone Hill) meet the M25 slip roads. The A22 runs north over the North Downs past Caterham, on a bypass that opened in 1939, and south by Godstone to East Grinstead and Eastbourne. Exit signs name Eastbourne, Godstone and Caterham on the A22, and Westerham and Redhill on the A25, which crosses the A22 in Godstone about a mile south of the roundabout. The junction takes its name from Godstone, a Surrey village.
Clockwise, the next junction is J7 at Merstham. Anticlockwise, it is J5 at Chevening, where the M26 and the A21 meet the M25.
J7 Merstham: the M23 four-level stack
J7 is the interchange with the M23, built as a four-level stack, one of only a few in Britain. Exit signs name the M23 for Brighton, Gatwick and Croydon, and Crawley is also named. The junction is numbered 8 on the M23, which runs about 2 miles north of the stack towards Hooley and continues south by Gatwick Airport and Crawley. It is named for Merstham, a Surrey town.
National Highways' January 2025 map lists the M23 from its junction 8 (this stack) to junction 10 as all lane running, a different layout from the controlled motorway on the M25 itself between J7 and J10.
J8 Reigate Hill: the A217 roundabout
J8 is a roundabout interchange on the A217 at the head of Reigate Hill, a steep section of the North Downs. Exit signs name Reigate and Sutton on the A217, with Kingston (A240) added on the clockwise side and Redhill (A25) on the anticlockwise side. North, the A217 runs past Kingswood and Tadworth to Burgh Heath, where the A240 branches off for Kingston, and on through Banstead to Sutton. South, it drops down Reigate Hill into Reigate.
J8 is also where two phases of construction meet. The first section, from Godstone to Reigate Hill (J6 to J8), opened on 10 February 1976, and the length from Reigate Hill on to Wisley (J8 to J10) followed on 7 October 1985. The next junction, J9, is 6.5 miles on, the longest length without a junction on this stretch.
J9 Leatherhead: two roundabouts on the A243
J9 is a non-standard interchange: the M25 slip roads join two roundabouts on the A243, about a mile apart. The one serving the clockwise carriageway is where the A245 starts, running through Cobham; the one serving the anticlockwise carriageway is where the A244 starts. Exit signs on both carriageways name Leatherhead on the A243 and Dorking on the A24. Because the two carriageways use different roundabouts, clockwise and anticlockwise traffic leave the motorway at different places.
South, the A243 reaches the Knoll roundabout in Leatherhead, where it meets the A24 for Dorking; the A24 crosses the M25 just before that roundabout, and J9 is reached by the A243 instead. North, the A243 passes Ashtead Common, which with Epsom Common stretches from J9 towards Epsom and includes a National Nature Reserve, then Chessington World of Adventures, and runs on through Chessington to Hook.
J10 Wisley: the A3 interchange
J10 is the interchange between the M25 and the A3, centred on a roundabout. It takes its name from Wisley, a village between Cobham and Woking that is home to the Royal Horticultural Society's Wisley Garden. North, the A3 meets the A245 at Painshill, the road into Cobham, then the A244 for Esher and Oxshott, and runs through Hook towards Kingston and south-west London. South, it bypasses Ockham and Ripley on its way to Guildford and Portsmouth. Clockwise, the next junction is J11 at Chertsey; anticlockwise, it is J9.
National Highways lists the J10 and A3 Wisley improvement as completed in spring 2026. The scheme gave the junction a larger roundabout with extra lanes, free-flow left turns at all four corners and an additional A3 lane in each direction from the Ockham and Painshill junctions towards the M25. New bridges across the A3 and M25 connect the four quadrants around the junction, and a heathland green bridge reconnects the commons either side of the A3. Layouts and closures can change, so check National Highways live notices for anything current.
Hard shoulder and smart motorway status on J6 to J10
National Highways' smart motorways map (reference CRE25_0085, information last updated 21 January 2025) lists the M25 from J7 to J10 as controlled motorway. The Department for Transport describes that type as the conventional layout with the hard shoulder kept, plus variable mandatory speed limits and overhead signs, and a limit shown within a red circle is one you must not exceed (Highway Code rule 261). Road diagrams on roads.org.uk show four lanes in each direction from J7 to J10.
The first part of the stretch is more mixed. The same map lists J5 to J7 as all lane running, with a footnote that the J6 to J7 eastbound carriageway, which is the anticlockwise one, is four-lane controlled motorway. The scheme evaluation published in 2020 describes all lane running from J5 to J6, where the hard shoulder became a permanent running lane, and controlled motorway with the hard shoulder kept through J6 and on to J7, except for a short length of the clockwise carriageway just west of J6. The two descriptions do not line up for the clockwise side of J6 to J7, so treat the lane signals above the road as the guide on the day.
Motorway services between J6 and J10
There is one service area on the stretch itself: Cobham services (Extra, postcode KT11 3DB), between J9 and J10. One site serves both directions, and it sits on the south side of the motorway. Clockwise traffic reaches it from the motorway itself, and anticlockwise traffic reaches it by a link passing under the M25. By the driver location signs it is about 4 miles after J9 and about 2 miles before J10 for clockwise traffic. It opened on 13 September 2012.
There are no services at J6, J7, J8, J9 or J10 themselves. Clacket Lane services lie outside the stretch, on the J5 to J6 length about 4.8 miles before J6 for clockwise traffic, as two separate sites, one on each carriageway, with no public connection between them. After Cobham, the next services clockwise are South Mimms, off J23, about 40 miles on by the driver location signs; anticlockwise, Clacket Lane is about 22 miles on.
What the M25 is like between Godstone and Wisley
Within about 19 miles you meet roundabout interchanges at J6 and J8, a four-level motorway stack at J7, a pair of roundabouts at J9 and the rebuilt A3 interchange at J10. Location signs along the road give the distance in kilometres, with the letter A for the clockwise carriageway and B for the anticlockwise. The figures are roughly 41.5 km at J6, 46 at J7, 51.4 at J8, 62.6 at J9, 69.2 at Cobham services and 72.5 at J10, and they rise in the clockwise direction.
The Department for Transport's 2025 counts put the annual average flow on the four links at roughly 142,000 to 154,000 motor vehicles a day in both directions, with heavy goods vehicles making up about 8 to 10 per cent. The highest flow of the four is on J7 to J8, at about 154,000, and the lowest on J9 to J10, at about 142,000.
How our M25 car recovery works on this stretch
We are based in Leyton, East London, and answer calls and WhatsApp messages on 07960 200253 24 hours a day. We recover cars, vans and 4x4s on the M25, including every junction from J6 to J10. We guarantee attendance on every job we confirm (the one exception, the Dartford Crossing and its approach roads, is explained in the FAQs); where the police or National Highways are managing the scene, we attend as soon as they allow access. Our Google rating is 5.0 from 153 Google reviews.
The price is agreed on the phone before we dispatch, with no separate call-out fee, and a motorway callout on the M25 runs from £250 to £750 depending on location. Tell us the junction, your direction (clockwise or anticlockwise) and what the vehicle needs: we can supply and fit a replacement tyre, deal with locking wheel nuts and seized wheels, or arrange recovery. Get to safety first, then call us; if you are in a live lane, call 999 first.
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M25 J6 to J10 car recovery FAQs
Do you cover the M25 between J6 and J10, and what does guaranteed attendance mean?
Yes. We cover the whole of the M25, including every junction from J6 at Godstone to J10 at Wisley, 24 hours a day. Guaranteed attendance means we guarantee to attend every job we confirm. Where the police or National Highways are managing the scene, we attend as soon as they allow access. The one exception is that the guarantee does not extend to the Dartford Crossing itself or its approach roads (the A282), which are far from this stretch. There, regulation 9 of the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Regulations 1998 allows only a constable or traffic officer to move a vehicle at rest because of a breakdown.
What should I tell you when I ring about a breakdown between Godstone and Wisley?
Give us the last junction you passed and the next one ahead, whether you are clockwise or anticlockwise, and the make, model and registration of the car, van or 4x4. Say what is wrong, such as a tyre, a locking wheel nut or a seized wheel. A kilometre figure from a driver location sign, with its A or B letter, is a precise way to describe where you are: A is the clockwise carriageway and B the anticlockwise.
How is the price set for a recovery on the M25 between J6 and J10?
We agree the price with you on the phone before we dispatch, and there is no separate call-out fee. A motorway callout on the M25 runs from £250 to £750 depending on location. Tell us your junction, direction and what the vehicle needs, and you will know the figure before anyone sets off rather than finding out afterwards.
Is the M25 between J6 and J10 a smart motorway?
Mostly it is controlled motorway, which keeps the hard shoulder and adds variable mandatory speed limits. National Highways' January 2025 map lists J7 to J10 that way. The same map lists J5 to J7 as all lane running, with the J6 to J7 eastbound (anticlockwise) carriageway shown as four-lane controlled motorway, and the J5 to J6 length before this stretch has no hard shoulder. Sources describe the clockwise side of J6 to J7 differently, so follow the signals above the road.
Are there motorway services between J6 and J10?
One: Cobham services (Extra) sit on the south side of the M25 between J9 and J10, shared by both directions. There are no services at J6, J7, J8, J9 or J10 themselves. Clacket Lane services are outside the stretch, on the J5 to J6 length about 4.8 miles before J6 for clockwise traffic, as two separate sites, one on each carriageway.
Which direction is clockwise on the M25 between J6 and J10?
Junction numbers rise clockwise, so travelling from J6 towards J7, J8, J9 and J10 is clockwise, which on this stretch means heading broadly west. J10 back towards J6 is anticlockwise, broadly east. When you ring, give the junction number and say clockwise or anticlockwise, because that tells us which carriageway you are on.
Which M25 junction leads to Gatwick and Brighton?
J7 at Merstham. Exit signs name the M23 for Brighton, Gatwick and Croydon, and Crawley is also named. The junction is numbered 8 on the M23, and National Highways' January 2025 map lists the M23 from its junction 8 to junction 10 as all lane running. The M25 itself stays controlled motorway through J7 to J10.
Which junction do I use for Reigate and Sutton?
J8, on the A217, where exit signs name Reigate and Sutton. South, the A217 drops down Reigate Hill into Reigate. North, it runs past Kingswood and Tadworth to Burgh Heath, where the A240 branches off for Kingston, and on through Banstead to Sutton. The J8 roundabout sits at the head of Reigate Hill, a steep section of the North Downs, and Redhill is named on the anticlockwise exit sign via the A25.
Which junction do I use for Leatherhead, Dorking and Chessington World of Adventures?
J9 for all three, though Dorking is reached by the A24 rather than directly. Exit signs on both carriageways name Leatherhead on the A243 and Dorking on the A24. South, the A243 runs about half a mile from the clockwise roundabout to the Knoll roundabout in Leatherhead, where it meets the A24. North, it passes Ashtead Common, then Chessington World of Adventures, and continues through Chessington to Hook.
Is the M25 J10 Wisley improvement finished?
National Highways lists the M25 J10 and A3 Wisley improvement as completed in spring 2026. It brought a larger roundabout with extra lanes, free-flow left turns at all four corners, an additional A3 lane in each direction from the Ockham and Painshill junctions towards the M25, and new bridges linking the four quadrants. Layouts and closures can change, so check National Highways live notices for anything current.
What roads meet the M25 at J6 Godstone?
J6 is a roundabout where the A22 and the B2235 (Godstone Hill) meet the M25 slip roads. The A22 runs north over the North Downs past Caterham and south by Godstone to East Grinstead and Eastbourne. The A25 is named on the exit signs for Westerham and Redhill and crosses the A22 in Godstone, about a mile south of the roundabout. Anticlockwise from J6 the next junction is J5 at Chevening, and the length between them is all lane running, with no hard shoulder.
How far apart are the junctions between J6 and J10?
On Department for Transport link lengths, J6 to J7 is 3.0 miles, J7 to J8 is 3.3 miles, J8 to J9 is 6.5 miles and J9 to J10 is 5.6 miles, which adds up to 18.4 miles; the driver location signs give about 19 miles from J6 to J10. J8 to J9 is the longest length without a junction. Cobham services sit between J9 and J10, about two-thirds of the way along it clockwise.
Where the road details come from
Road details on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026.
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Broken down on the M25 between J6 and J10? Get to safety first, then call us.
Call 07960 200253, tell us your direction (clockwise or anticlockwise) and the last junction you passed, and we agree the price before anyone sets off.