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GEM - Best Breakdown..... BUT

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  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    We attend multiple events that require parking in fields and it is recognised that the organiser should have a tractor on site for this very problem. Think I have been towed out three times this year all without fuss but it is a DAF 45/150 lorry :)

    Did you approach the venue and ask for their help?
  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    Hintza wrote: »
    We attend multiple events that require parking in fields and it is recognised that the organiser should have a tractor on site for this very problem. Think I have been towed out three times this year all without fuss but it is a DAF 45/150 lorry :)

    Did you approach the venue and ask for their help?

    Yep. They told us a truck would eventually arrive to tow us, went home and left us there. :D

    Brilliant haha. Very lucky that the guy in the Mitsi went past and saw our warning lights on.
  • mchale
    mchale Posts: 1,886 Forumite
    edited 1 December 2016 at 2:47PM
    Stoke wrote: »
    To me, breakdown is breakdown.


    Well to me a breakdown is a vehicle immobilized by a mechanical/electrical problem/fault, not a driver induced situation. And if you get a flat tyre change it (if 1 comes with the vehicle.)
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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    mchale wrote: »
    Well to me a breakdown is a vehicle immobilized by a mechanical/electrical problem/fault, not a driver induced situation. And if you get a flat tyre change it (if 1 comes with the vehicle.)

    And if it doesn't?
  • Franz_Ferdinand
    Franz_Ferdinand Posts: 174 Forumite
    Stoke wrote: »
    And if it doesn't?


    Mobile tyre fitter or recovery truck.

    Still it serves no purpose discussing an imaginary puncture when you were stuck in a field.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »
    Mobile tyre fitter or recovery truck.

    Still it serves no purpose discussing an imaginary puncture when you were stuck in a field.
    ...and if the car would have had a spare originally, and it's missing or unusable, you'll get handed a bill.

    Just as you will if you bend the car. And if the aftermath of that bending is that the car is off the road in a field, the bill will be much bigger.
  • missile
    missile Posts: 11,793 Forumite
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    Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »
    Thanks for your tip but as this is a money saving site I'll stick with the RAC.
    RAC will not recover from a field either. :beer:
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
  • Franz_Ferdinand
    Franz_Ferdinand Posts: 174 Forumite
    missile wrote: »
    RAC will not recover from a field either. :beer:

    Don't worry I'm not daft enough to drive into a field I can't get out of.

    So I'll still stick with them while they're free.
  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »
    Don't worry I'm not daft enough to drive into a field I can't get out of.

    So I'll still stick with them while they're free.

    :D It wasn't me driving
  • Franz_Ferdinand
    Franz_Ferdinand Posts: 174 Forumite
    Stoke wrote: »
    :D It wasn't me driving

    Has it happened twice?
    Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »
    But you drove in there by choice.
    Stoke wrote: »
    Very True.
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