autoaid car road recovery

poppy01604

can any of you give more info if you are using this service AUTOAID car road recovery thanks

greyster

hiya, just thinking about joining them myself ..... just do a forum search for autoaid and you will see all the previous discussions on them.

lisyloo

Does anyone know if motorcycles are included or not?

Usually most policies do and I would guess that it does as it's "auto" aid.
But would appreciate if anyone has any further info on this subject.

Thanks

kenshaz

basicaly you pay when the car is recovered and reclaim,I paid with my credit card ,no problems,you contact them they find a garage,much cheaper for full recovery,husband and wife cover ,must be married,always paid within 14 days

tipsychick

I've just joined them and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll be okay. They're certainly lovely and cheap. Can't remember if it was in Martin's article or the lady at Autoaid who said that the part of the reason they're so cheap is that you have to pay the mechanic/garage direct and then claim it back from them and lots of people forget to claim! That won't be happening with me!

Most people who are using Autoaid from MSE seem to be happy with them, which was actually what swung it for me in the end, but I couldn't see many people posting who had actually got as far as calling them out yet!

One thing I did notice was that they'll only meet £45.00 of the cost for a call out to your home and almost always when I've called the AA in the past it's been from home due to a flat battery/flat tyre.

The lady I spoke to at Autoaid said that £45.00 would cover replacing a flat battery in the driveway but I'm not so sure that it would where I live in London. The AA replaced the battery in one of our cars at home last month and I think it cost about £99.00. That was for the actual battery and presumably not the labour, so perhaps £45.00 would be enough to cover labour costs?

Anyway, I'm with them now and keeping my fingers crossed! I suppose for thirty odd quid, even if replacing a battery or tyre does turn out to be a bit more expensive than with the AA, at least you're not paying over £150.00 every year even when nothing does go wrong!

When I phoned to cancel our membership, the AA could not have been less interested in losing our custom and I/my mum have been with them for twenty years!

tipsychick

I've just had a look in the policy document and apart from cars, "a car derived van, motorcycle or motorized caravan under 2.5 tons gross weight and with an engine capacity of no more than 2500cc" are also covered!

Autoaid are actually Equity Red Star, so should be all right (I think).

derrick

tipsychick wrote:

I've just joined them and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll be okay. They're certainly lovely and cheap. Can't remember if it was in Martin's article or the lady at Autoaid who said that the part of the reason they're so cheap is that you have to pay the mechanic/garage direct and then claim it back from them and lots of people forget to claim! That won't be happening with me!

Most people who are using Autoaid from MSE seem to be happy with them, which was actually what swung it for me in the end, but I couldn't see many people posting who had actually got as far as calling them out yet!

One thing I did notice was that they'll only meet £45.00 of the cost for a call out to your home and almost always when I've called the AA in the past it's been from home due to a flat battery/flat tyre.




The lady I spoke to at Autoaid said that £45.00 would cover replacing a flat battery in the driveway but I'm not so sure that it would where I live in London. The AA replaced the battery in one of our cars at home last month and I think it cost about £99.00. That was for the actual battery and presumably not the labour, so perhaps £45.00 would be enough to cover labour costs?

Anyway, I'm with them now and keeping my fingers crossed! I suppose for thirty odd quid, even if replacing a battery or tyre does turn out to be a bit more expensive than with the AA, at least you're not paying over £150.00 every year even when nothing does go wrong!

When I phoned to cancel our membership, the AA could not have been less interested in losing our custom and I/my mum have been with them for twenty years!

Breakdown cover does not cover the cost of parts, so you would be paying for a new battery anyway. Plus a flat battery will no neccassarily need replacing, just recharging.