Skip to content
Dépannage Remorquage Rennes
Call +33 7 56 81 76 2124/7, in French Get my price

If your car breaks down around Rennes, Saint-Malo or Mont-Saint-Michel

A checklist for visiting drivers: getting safe, who may come out on which road, the ring road's numbered junctions, the ferry ports, Mont-Saint-Michel and hire cars.

Call +33 7 56 81 76 21Get my price

The Rennes ring road at a glance

Seventeen junctions, the portes, numbered clockwise. On the phone or in the form, the last porte you passed and your direction are enough to find you.

Diagram of the Rennes ring road (RN136) A 31 km ring with 17 numbered junctions, called portes, numbered clockwise from the porte de la Rigourdière (1) to the porte de Tizé (17), and the main roads leaving it. Rennes RN136

Your price, online and in English

Three answers (the problem, the place, the car) and the form shows a price including VAT, calculated from our rate card. Then book online, or ask to be rung back at no cost.

  • Price from our 2026 rate card, VAT included, valid for 30 minutes.
  • A €50 card deposit secures the booking and is deducted from the final bill; you pay the remainder on the day.
  • Or a free call back, with no commitment.
  • On a motorway such as the A84, only the approved operator for that stretch may come out: tick the box in the form and it tells you what to do.

Three short steps

Price from our 2026 rate card, VAT included. In a hurry? Call +33 7 56 81 76 21

  1. Need
  2. Vehicle
  3. Your details
  4. Price
What happened?
Something else

A town name is enough: the price depends on the distance.

On French motorways, only the tow company approved for that section may come out. Put on your safety vest, get behind the barrier, then call from an orange emergency phone (every 2 km on toll motorways) or dial 112: the fee is regulated.

Stopped on the Rennes ring road or another fast road and not sure what to tick? Call +33 7 56 81 76 21 and we'll tell you who may come out where you are. In danger, dial 112.

First, get safe

If the car still moves, leave the road before stopping: a car park, a petrol station, a quiet street, the next junction. On a dual carriageway, the hard shoulder is the last resort. Then:

  1. hazard lights on;
  2. hi-vis vest on before you step out: it's compulsory in France, and not wearing it can cost a €135 fine;
  3. all passengers out, waiting behind the safety barrier where there is one, never between the car and the traffic;
  4. the triangle: only for a car left partly on the carriageway, and only if setting it out carries no risk; on the hard shoulder, leave it in the boot.

Who to call

  • 112, the European emergency number, for an injury, smoke, a fuel smell or a car stuck in a live lane.
  • The hire company, if the car is hired: its contract usually decides who comes.
  • Your breakdown cover, if your insurer or a motoring club at home covers you in France.
  • Us, for everything else in Ille-et-Vilaine: the line is answered in French, the forms on this site in English.

The Rennes ring road

The rocade is the RN136: a 31 km ring around Rennes with 17 numbered junctions, the portes, run by the State through the DIR Ouest. It is limited to 90 km/h all the way round, and on its busiest section the DIR Ouest counts some 110,000 vehicles a day, with frequent jams at the morning and evening peaks.

If the car is faltering, don't stop on the ring road: the junctions are close together, so take the next one and stop off the road. If you have to stop, follow the safety steps above, and dial 112 if your car blocks a lane. To be found, two things are enough: the last porte you passed (its number or name, on the signs) and your direction. The inner carriageway runs clockwise, so the numbers go up (after porte 7 comes porte 8, after 17 comes 1); on the outer carriageway they go down.

  1. Porte de la Rigourdière

    Town: Cesson-Sévigné.

  2. Porte de la Valette

    Town: Cesson-Sévigné.

  3. Porte de Beaulieu

    Towns: Cesson-Sévigné, Chantepie.

  4. Porte des Loges

    Towns: Chantepie, Rennes.

  5. Porte d'Angers D173

    To Angers. Town: Rennes.

  6. Porte de Nantes N137

    To Nantes. Towns: Rennes, Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche.

  7. Porte de Bréquigny

    Towns: Rennes, Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche.

  8. Porte de Saint-Nazaire D177

    To Redon. Town: Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande.

  9. Porte de Cleunay

    Town: Rennes.

  10. Porte de Lorient N24

    To Lorient, Vannes. Town: Rennes.

  11. Porte de Villejean

    Town: Rennes.

  12. Porte de Brest N12

    To Saint-Brieuc, Brest. Town: Rennes.

  13. Porte de Saint-Malo D137

    To Saint-Malo. Towns: Saint-Grégoire, Rennes.

  14. Porte de Maurepas

    Towns: Saint-Grégoire, Rennes.

  15. Porte des Longs Champs

    Towns: Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes.

  16. Porte de Normandie A84

    To Fougères, Caen. Town: Cesson-Sévigné.

  17. Porte de Tizé

    Town: Thorigné-Fouillard.

Motorway or expressway?

The roads leaving the ring road don't all follow the same rules:

  • the A84 (porte de Normandie, towards Fougères and Caen) is a motorway: only approved recovery operators may come out. Get behind the barrier and dial 112;
  • the D137 to Saint-Malo was given expressway status by a 1991 decree; it's a free dual carriageway of about 66 km;
  • on the RN137 south of Rennes, a reserved lane has run on the hard shoulder since 2023 between Chartres-de-Bretagne and the porte d'Alma, and it keeps its emergency role: a broken-down vehicle may stop there.

Neither the A84 nor the D137 has toll booths. In every case, the safety steps stay the same, and we can arrange the tow once the car has left the fast road.

Saint-Malo and the ferries

Saint-Malo is the end of the D137 from Rennes, which carries close to 46,000 vehicles a day on the approach to the town, according to the Department. Heading for the boat from Rennes, note that only one rest area is left on the way, at Montmuran: stop there if the car is giving warning signs, rather than on the hard shoulder.

  • At the ferry terminal du Naye, in the boarding lanes or on the car deck, speak to the port or ship's staff first: those areas are restricted. Once you're outside them, tell us whether you are still in the queue.
  • In town, give the district: Intra-Muros, Saint-Servan, Paramé, Rothéneuf, or the name of the nearest shopping centre.
  • In a multi-storey car park, give the height limit shown at the entrance.

Across the Rance, Dinard is reached on the D168 over the Rance tidal dam. Lifting bridges open there to let boats through, at times set by the tide, so a wait can be added to the tow truck's journey; if the car stops on the dam itself, treat it like a fast road.

Roscoff, the other Brittany Ferries port, is in Finistère, at the far west of Brittany and outside the area we cover. Coming east from there towards Rennes, you reach Ille-et-Vilaine on the N12 from Saint-Brieuc: from then on, we can help.

Mont-Saint-Michel

The Mont and its visitor car parks are just over the border, in Normandy (Manche), outside Ille-et-Vilaine and so outside our area: for a breakdown there, call your hire company or your breakdown cover. On the Breton side, the roads towards the bay pass through towns we cover, such as Pleine-Fougères, Dol-de-Bretagne and Cancale, and Saint-Malo's planning documents note heavy traffic at tourist peaks: any arrival time we give allows for it.

Hire cars and airports

Collected your hire car at Rennes station or at Rennes-Bretagne airport? The airport sits in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, on the D177 towards Redon, from porte 8 (porte de Saint-Nazaire). On the Emerald Coast, the airport nearest Dinard is in the neighbouring town of Pleurtuit. In all cases, ring the hire company's assistance line first, and at an airport car park say exactly where the car is: level, row, and whether a height limit applies.

After a minor collision

If anyone is hurt, 112 first. Otherwise, French drivers fill in a constat amiable, the European accident report: the layout is identical whatever the language of the form, so you can compare it box by box with an English copy. Both drivers sign the same sheet and each keeps a copy. Only sign what you understand and agree with; the observations box is there for your own remarks. Then inform your insurer or the hire company, as their contract requires.

If the car has gone to the pound

Outside Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, the pound (fourrière) cannot charge more than €135 to take a car away, plus €7.15 for each day it keeps it; those ceilings date from 1 October 2026. Start by obtaining the release order (mainlevée); at the pound, pay and show the car's insurance papers, your licence and its registration certificate.

Useful sentences in French

  • Je suis sur la rocade, après la porte 8, sens intérieur. I'm on the ring road, past junction 8, on the inner carriageway.
  • Je suis au terminal ferry, dans la file d'embarquement. I'm at the ferry terminal, in the boarding lane.
  • La voiture ne veut plus démarrer. The car won't start any more.
  • J'ai crevé, je n'ai pas de roue de secours. I've had a puncture and have no spare wheel.
  • C'est une voiture louée. It's a hired car.
  • Rappelez-moi, s'il vous plaît. Please call me back.

Sources (in French)

Updated November 2026.

Across Ille-et-Vilaine

Help is arranged in Rennes and the 127 other towns of the site. The largest, with their distance from Rennes (pages in French):

All towns

Prefer to write?

Give us a name, a phone number (country code included) and, in English, the place and the problem. We'll ring you back and organise the rest.

In a hurry? Call +33 7 56 81 76 21

Callback request

Your details are used to arrange the call-out, and for nothing else. Privacy policy (French)

Call +33 7 56 81 76 2124/7, in French Online price