I waited for RAC as a lone female for 4 hrs! Is this acceptable?

Herzlos

Shevchenko01 said:

I am a lone, disabled (amongst others, I am unable to regulate my own body temperature) male and I have been waiting more than 4 hours today on the hottest day ever in the UK.

But I guess this is fine, because I'm not female.

You should have been a pretty high priority, if they knew about the disability. However, the highest priority ever doesn't necessarily mean it's quick if they are really busy. I expect with the heat wave there were a lot more breakdowns than usual with cars overheating.

I don't think there are any breakdown companies with a guaranteed arrival time.

I had one not that long ago that wouldn't start if it was too hot. It was always fine by the time a breakdown vehicle arrived though.

Murphybear

We had amazing service once,  we were test driving a car that my husband wanted to buy. On a main road in otherwise rural Devon the car ran out of petrol  . 2 minutes later a passing RAC van stopped and when we told him the problem he towed us back to the dealer.  It was only a few minutes away.  We didn’t belong to the RAC at the time. 

Over the years we’ve not had to use the breakdown services more than a couple of times. Both were with the RAC and we were never kept waiting for long.