Just saved £60 on breakdown cover

only_mee

Try Chris Knott they do a good package for

HomeStart - to help you begin your journey when your car won’t start
• UK Roadside Assistance - to get you back on the road
• UK Recovery - to take you and your car back home again
• Onward Travel - to take you and your car to your original destination
• Overnight Stay - to help you continue your journey the following day
• 24hr Hire Car - to give you a replacement car while yours is repaired
• Relief Driver - to get you home if the driver is taken ill
• Message Relay - to let loved ones or colleagues know you’ll be late

http://www.ckinsurance.co.uk/docs/ChrisKnottBreakdown.pdf

artha

My renewal quote this year with AA was £85 for joint basic cover + homestart. Am I paying too much?

daveyjp

Autoaid is £37 so yes - only restriction is Homestart has an upper claim limit.

artha

daveyjp wrote: »

Autoaid is £37 so yes - only restriction is Homestart has an upper claim limit.

Would I get the same level of cover from auto aid as with the AA in all respects?

buglawton

You are comparing an apple with a pear.

artha

buglawton wrote: »

You are comparing an apple with a pear.

Sorry, don't know what you mean. Surely breakdown assistance when you need it is the important thing and should be the level playing field on which you judge value. If the AA responds within an hour and autoaid takes say 6 hours then I know which one is value

buglawton

Autoaid took under 1 hour each time I used them (by calling the central helpdesk and getting a local franchisee mechanic/truck out).

What I mean is this: Once people find out that this is an insurance scheme, and you do not become a 'member' of a national recovery network - no sticker to place on your windscreen - they hesitate and go back to the arms of mama (aka AA/RAC/Green Flag etc).

So Autoaid is a pear and the the others are apples - a direct comparison is not what decides most people.

Ionkontrol

There is a large garage near me that does recovery.
Depending on who contacts them, they put on their AA or RAC or Greenflag jackets.
All you need is someone with a truck.
I'm with rescuemycar, all cover £34. Anything more is ripoff.

katsu

I'm an autoaid fan for the domestic car but they don't cover 4WD. Anyone know good breakdown cover for pickup trucks (yes, I recognise the irony of the question but I thought when it is used on motorway journeys it would be worth looking at prices for cover)?

MoneySavingUser

MissAqua wrote: »

What? How are they getting away with that! I was shocked… all these years I just let it renew itself, and they have been charging me more and mor each year..… dam it! What a waste! More fool me for not checking…

As someone else has mentioned it isn't just them

Practically all renewal notices (insurance etc.) are like this!!