AA or RAC?

immoral_angeluk

Call up the AA with the cheapest breakdown cover quote you can and tell them you're thinking of cancelling to go with them. The AA price matched for me when I did that and I paid £35 instead of £45 for the year so it's worth calling them.

HairyHandofDartmoor

I cancelled AA which would have been about £80 and went with First Call (recommended by Martin). Have got home start, roadside assistance and recovery all for £42 a year. Haven't used them yet, but was very impressed with the price!

saving-grace

My breakdown cover is with Norwich Union. I've only had to call them out once but on that occasion I was very pleased with the service. It was actually an RAC patrol that came out to me and afterwards I was given a customer satistaction postcard to fill in and post back if I wanted to.

rkh001

Thanks everyone. I have decided to stay with AA more for peace of mind as I do travel a lot on my own. In the past they have been brilliant and have nearly always got to me under half an hour. But next year I will consider looking at the others mentioned above. My AA has run out today - poor planning on my part!!

lil_me

After waiting over 2 hours for the RAC on a call out and being told then it would be another hour, cancelled RAC membership!!

Dave80s

The advantage of 'pay and claim' services is that a local garage/recovery will come out to you, so it is normally 15-30 mins wait.

With the AA and RAC they will try and get one of their own vans to you, reverting to a local recovery service only after about 2 hours usually!

I have been with GEM for 2 years - used them twice with no problem whatsoever. Before that I used the AA which was frustrating.

Anastacia

I have used Autoaid since first mentioning it (yesterday ?). Still no problem. Quick, fast, pleasant & efficient.

domestic_goddess

Dont forget anyone thinking of taking out / changing breakdown services to use quidco, I think most are on there so you could get yourself some cash back as well!

Dr.Shoe_2

Green Flag via Quidco...

lavidaloca

Green Flag via Quidco £50.40 for 2 vehicles and £20 back from Quidco. As other posters have said the smaller firms use local garages so usually quick off the mark.