Who do you use for Breakdown cover?

luvchocolate

Autoaid...came to me home start got me going, paid him, sent off claim form cheque within 7 days.....great service

Ultrasonic

I wish they'd send payments electronically rather than as cheques. Having to go to a bank to pay in a cheque costs me time and money for something there is no good reason I should need to do at all!

james_joyce

I did consider NOT renewing with Autoaid this year - over the past 6 years I have paid more in premiums than I've claimed back in breakdown costs, so it would have been cheaper just to have saved up the money and paid the breakdown costs myself. However I did renew, to avoid sod's law happening!

hollie.weimeraner

Another vote for Autoaid but if you don't want to pay and then claim IC breakdown are excellent (my son and mother use them)

Ectophile

I've used Autonational Rescue for several years. £66 for the first car on the "bells and whistles" package, and £33 for a second car.

Haven't had any problems with them yet. If you break down, they just call a local breakdown company, who then deal with it.

avantra

I am in a position to compare Autoaid and the AA, been with Autoaid 8 years and 3 with the AA.

The cover is obviously cheaper from Autoaid, my experience using them four times at the period I was with them is a mix bug.

If you use them for something simple like a puncture, flat battery etc' they will do the job well. For anything more complicated I will stay away.

The problem is that as you use, which ever garage/indi tow tuck is in the area of the incident (or your own choice of garage) you can get not very consistent service.

Twice over the years with Autoaid we had a bit more complicated problems with the fueling system of our car and twice the person towing us didn't bother with the diagnostics. I am not blaming them as they are just tow truck drivers, following a garage investigation they found something clogging the inline fuel filter, apparently a simple fix by the side of the road is all that needed. Autoaid pays on time and I personally have no problem with the call out time (2 hours usually in our case).


With the AA we had a mass air sensor failing on the M5 (the motorway not the German muscle car) and this was diagnosed quickly and replaced at no cost (easy to access on our car).

So as cars gradually become more complicated I suggest you take a good look at your model and how complicated it is, sometime a trained AA/RAC person can be a lifeline in more complicated cases as well as simple ones. It will obviously cost around 50-70% more over Autoaid but for another £60/year I do not mind.

Autoaid cover your spouse and provide ongoing travel at the same low flat rate so it is great value for people with reliable dependable cars, if you like me having a French car (Re!!) followed by an English make (RO!!) I would stick to the big boys for another £60.

EdGasket

The service from AA is also a mixed bag. I had a simple ignition module failure on a Honda engine (common problem), AA chap wasn't interested in fixing it; only towing me home. Another time, same problem but with the RAC who replaced the module and I was on my way after paying for the part. Its still luck of the draw who turns up, how knowledgeable they are and whether they have or can get the required part. Now I use AutoAid as its £39 compared to £££'s with AA or RAC for Recovery cover.

rev_henry

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

Another vote for Autoaid but if you don't want to pay and then claim IC breakdown are excellent (my son and mother use them)

I was with IC breakdown and had to call them out twice, no complaints.

Now with startrescue. There's usually a 10-15% discount voucher/topcashback on top of that price floating about. Never had to call them out but I have no complaints. For just over £30 a year you seemingly get everything except EU cover!