Car Broken Down, No Cover

Quentin

Find a mate who has personal cover and get him to request his breakdown service to deal with it

erictheonly1

Quentin wrote: »

Find a mate who has personal cover and get him to request his breakdown service to deal with it

Is this something you have personally done?

Quentin

(What is the relevance of your question?)


It's a solution! (Personal cover normally includes the policy holder as a passenger in any vehicle)

bigadaj

erictheonly1 wrote: »

Would be keen to know if anyone has done this successfully?

A lad I worked with did this but it was back in the early nineties.

As a graduate he was driving an old banger, I think his father bought them every couple of years, he lived in the south coast and the site was in Gloucestershire. The car developed problems on his way up on a Monday morning, nursed to to get to site and then rang up AA or rac and signed up with them on the Monday or Tuesday. He then got recovered on the Friday when he went back home.

TadleyBaggie

erictheonly1 wrote: »

Is this something you have personally done?

I've done it. Daughter broke down (water pump seized) on the way to college managed to drive it to a petrol station. I drove there and parked at the back and invoked my breakdown cover without a problem.

arcon5

25 miles... a local one man band recovery truck service should do it cheap enough... £40-50

vikingaero

Should be lots of independent man and trucks on Gumtree

Muscle750

Not got any with your bank acct? Or just ring round a few places

gardner1

erictheonly1 wrote: »

Some providers I have looked at requires that the car is serviced, which my car hasn't been (again I know).

unless the car is a real heap of !!!! I've never know a breakdown company ask for proof of service history and if they did just say you or your spouse/partner does it

[Deleted User]

Be pleased that you broke down at work with no breakdown cover and not on the hard shoulder of a busy motorway.

Either the garage will recover it for you or look for someone local who recovers cars and delivers them to your garage of choice, whichever is cheapest.