Breakdown cover: Get the cheapest roadside recovery

pavlovs_dog

thanks for the reminder - our policy is due to expire soon, and due to an ugly renewal quote its time to shop around

Aletank

Hollysan wrote: »

We do have £15.50 worth of Tesco vouchers. Would the RAC take them as part payment or would we have to have more vouchers?

Any advice gratefully received.

Hollysan

Not sure if you could use them as part payment but why not buy some more vouchers from Ebay ? They normally sell for about double their value but that still saves you 50%

Graham_S

I've not read all the forum, so apologies if I'm repeating anything already mentioned. But if you own a Toyota it is well worth considering breakdown with Club Toyota, I pay £55 a year by DD (it otherwise costs £59 by cheque/card) for full UK and european cover, run through the RAC

Hobao

PLEASE NOTE I AM AN AA PATROL

mini_mad_dad wrote: »

many Lloys TSB account holders like me get it free, kind of anyway i've had it running for many years and never knew about it, whilst paying for AA membership too!

Be very carefull, Unless you have a PLATINUM Account you only have roadside assitance. Basicly it is a tow into a local garage or home address. If you are more then 10 miles from home you will have to pay to get recoverd Home

mini_mad_dad wrote: »

but the AA priorotise tsb callers.

No they Dont

If you are looking to renew or change your breakdown cover, it's always worth talking to an AA or RAC Patrol as they often have promotion codes to reduce the cost.

As an AA Patrol, obviously I am bias, but the service us patrols (AA or Rac) give more then makes up for the extra cost's involved.

simpywimpy

I just bought a basic green flag policy through quidco.com for hubby. It was on offer at £24 but I got £20 cashback from Quidco so cost me just £4.

kingdeadly

What a load of Rubbish, for a start off the AA don't have patrols working after 11pm at night. Who do they use then? The same garages you say can't repair your car. AA and RAC are both over rated and over priced.

Hobao

kingdeadly wrote: »

What a load of Rubbish, for a start off the AA don't have patrols working after 11pm at night.

Rubbish.

I work till 0200 on a regular basis and start at 0600 hours. I also regulary avail myself to call out from 0200 as do many other Patrols. Infact in Busy City Areas Patrols regulary work Night Shifts on a voluntry basis from 2200 to 0600.

daku

anyone recommend which breakdown service to go for, for 3 drivers sharing 2 vehicles , me, my brother and father.

If we choose autoaid would we need 3 policies?

thanks

codger

Thanks to MSE price-only recommendation, we took out a First Call GB subscription two years ago and renewed it again last year.

Candidly, we weren't impressed: a scrappy bit of card board with a hand-inked membership number; a policy document the first year but absolutely no correspondence at all on renewal. Cheap, certainly, but definitely not cheerful.

We realised last week (!) that the First Call subscription had actually run out, though we've never had any communication from First Call.

Seeing as how (as Which? reported recently) motoring assistance from ANY outfit which depends upon "local" garages and local suppliers is always going to be patchy, we've decided to use £30 oddsworth of Tesco ClubCard Deal tokens and buy RAC cover.

I'm sure there are good experiences to be had as well as bad where cheapo breakdown companies are concerned but in light of some comments here and elsewhere on the 'Net we've decided the risk just isn't worth taking: we don't want any of our family members to be in the position of being let down at the very moment when help is most urgently needed.

The AA and the RAC are indeed expensive, but in a broken-down car on a deserted country road in the early hours of the morning I'd rather depend upon the man-with-a-van-full-of-spanners (the phrase was coined in derisory fashion by an AA / RAC competitor, though has clearly rebounded on them) than some peculiar "insurance" outfit which may or may not want to wriggle out of its obligations or may have "contacts" with a local garage which no-one in their right mind would ordinarily use.

As for First Call, well, there was never a time when occasion arose to test their service. Now there never will be.

Finally. . . Over a lifetime of motoring (45 years) we've had experience of both RAC and AA call-outs in that time. And on every occasion, be it the AA or RAC, the patrols have been superb and the assistance, fantastic.

malango

Sam2007 wrote: »

I've said it once and I'll say it again, you get what you pay for, I wouldn't buy Tesco Value bread and neither would I buy cheapo cover from the likes of Autoaid etc. They have too many limitations and exclusions which no doubt will come to light when you need them most. I'd rather pay extra and have piece of mind which is surely why you have it in the first place?

As for Tesco their greenflag basic is £33 which is still pretty good but not the £23 headlined in Martins article