best cheap breakdown cover

smokey_dave

I have a 12 year old car. Can anyone recommend a cheap breakdown cover.

dresdendave

smokey_dave wrote: »

I have a 12 year old car. Can anyone recommend a cheap breakdown cover.

You'll probably be better off posting this in the motoring section.

funky1471

If you get an Ultimate Reward account with Halifax it's £12 a month fee, but you get £5 if you make sure to pay in £1,000+ per month.

Whether it's worth it to you will depend on your personal circumstances. You get:

- Multi trip holiday insurance
- AA Breakdown Cover (The basic cover approx £20-£30 a yr I believe)
- Mobile phone insurance (I was told they also now cover iPhones as well as all other phones)

So if you need these things then it could be worth getting the account. The holiday insurance is quite good, and easy to claim on. My partner made a claim for a doctors visit and medicine after a recent trip to spain and the claim was pretty hassle free.

There is a £50 excess on the travel insurance, but it covers you for up to 30 days as a time, multiple trips per year.

katsu

Martin recomends autoaid or autonational as the cheapest option - more info on the motoring tab of the main site

funky1471

katsu wrote: »

Martin recomends autoaid or autonational as the cheapest option - more info on the motoring tab of the main site

Just incase the original poster is wondering, they may not have heard about those companies, however, I have cover with the AA through my Ultimate Reward Account, but when I had to call them out they sent one of their "trusted partners", I have a feeling these trusted partners work for the smaller breakdown companies too.

GolfBravo

Try German ADAC.

ADAC single Plus membership is €79.50 a year, which is roughly £70 and gives you EU-wide cover (including UK, obviously). In case of UK breakdown you just contact the AA. ADAC Plus membership is the equivalent of the AA at home and national recovery cover.

No car age limit, and it covers any vehicle (under 7.5 tonnes) you're driving.

Fishingtime

funky1471 wrote: »

but when I had to call them out they sent one of their "trusted partners", I have a feeling these trusted partners work for the smaller breakdown companies too.

I used to belong to a breakdown company,they had to send me a breakdown truck out to me.
The wagon had every breakdown company sticker on it,I asked him about it and he said he is contracted to most of the breakdown companys