Female Abandoned by RAC at Night

Iceweasel

The RAC and tha AA are rubbish these days - profit seeking companies - nothing more.

I understand that the RAC membership card still gives a 'Breakdown & Accident Helpline' number. Very misleading.

I can recommend the ADAC - which is the German Automobile Club of course. €79.50 per year for their 'Plus' membership which covers everything.

It is run for the benefit of members - not shareholders. It covers all breakdowns, accidents or vehicle theft.

You join as an 'overseas' member and anywhere in Europe one phone-call (in English) will get you the AA or RAC or whoever else is nearest, irrespective of what their 'home' rules are.

The AA and RAC don't like being told what to do - especially when the instructions come from Germany - but they MUST respond as they are members of the International Motor Club Organisation (or whatever it's called these days) and MUST give reciprocal help to ALL members irrespective of where they live.

Captain_Flack.

Iceweasel wrote: »

The RAC and tha AA are rubbish these days - profit seeking companies - nothing more.

I understand that the RAC membership card still gives a 'Breakdown & Accident Helpline' number. Very misleading.

I can recommend the ADAC - which is the German Automobile Club of course. €79.50 per year for their 'Plus' membership which covers everything.

It is run for the benefit of members - not shareholders. It covers all breakdowns, accidents or vehicle theft.

You join as an 'overseas' member and anywhere in Europe one phone-call (in English) will get you the AA or RAC or whoever else is nearest, irrespective of what their 'home' rules are.

The AA and RAC don't like being told what to do - especially when the instructions come from Germany - but they MUST respond as they are members of the International Motor Club Organisation (or whatever it's called these days) and MUST give reciprocal help to ALL members irrespective of where they live.

Yes, they must help. But they will farm it out to a local garage.

facade

niftyone wrote: »

The thread is not about the AA is it ,who were never the fourth emergency service anyway. Coastguard,Mountain Rescue etc come to mind.;)

True, she is with the RAC, but I suspect the big ones are all the same.

They billed themselves as "the 4th emergency service" back in the day, I even recall adverts where they were going out to a car that had stopped in the pouring rain.

what I need is some sort of admin service that will find me a local recovery firm that operate a fair priced service (rather than high rates at night/bank holidays) then I can just pay for my own recovery- sort of a national network of franchises that charge a fixed rate.

Mojisola

facade wrote: »

what I need is some sort of admin service that will find me a local recovery firm that operate a fair priced service (rather than high rates at night/bank holidays) then I can just pay for my own recovery- sort of a national network of franchises that charge a fixed rate.

Green Flag always comes out well when recovery services are discussed.

oldharryrocks

Going off track slightly as thread was originally about RAC. Are you sure the AA dont cover flood recovery as they have a specialist unit thats often giving advice in the media.

Eg: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-flood-water-aa-2965094


and heres details of the flood recovery unit.http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/breakdown_advice/aa-sort-flood-busting-land-rovers.html

spacey2012

Iceweasel wrote: »

The RAC and tha AA are rubbish these days - profit seeking companies - nothing more.

I understand that the RAC membership card still gives a 'Breakdown & Accident Helpline' number. Very misleading.

I can recommend the ADAC - which is the German Automobile Club of course. €79.50 per year for their 'Plus' membership which covers everything.

It is run for the benefit of members - not shareholders. It covers all breakdowns, accidents or vehicle theft.

You join as an 'overseas' member and anywhere in Europe one phone-call (in English) will get you the AA or RAC or whoever else is nearest, irrespective of what their 'home' rules are.

The AA and RAC don't like being told what to do - especially when the instructions come from Germany - but they MUST respond as they are members of the International Motor Club Organisation (or whatever it's called these days) and MUST give reciprocal help to ALL members irrespective of where they live.

This has to be worth a look, as only the British Sheeple put up with bad services and T+C's that are rigged to shaft you over then still go back for more.
Until we do stop putting up with bad service and greedy shafting companies they will never change.
I will certainly look at this next year, I have had enough of this ripp off UK stuff to last me a lifetime, the sheep can be sheep for all I care, but I want what I am paying for.

AdrianC

oldharryrocks wrote: »

Going off track slightly as thread was originally about RAC. Are you sure the AA dont cover flood recovery as they have a specialist unit thats often giving advice in the media.

Again - the RAC _do_ recover flooded cars. They were never going to "abandon" the OP. It was merely confusion over whether it was included in their breakdown cover or whether there was additional payment required for it...