Car Broken Down, No Cover

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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Find a mate who has personal cover and get him to request his breakdown service to deal with it
  • erictheonly1
    erictheonly1 Posts: 7 Forumite
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    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
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    (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
    bigadaj Posts: 11,531 Forumite
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    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
    TadleyBaggie Posts: 6,048 Forumite
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    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
    arcon5 Posts: 14,099 Forumite
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    25 miles... a local one man band recovery truck service should do it cheap enough... £40-50
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    Should be lots of independent man and trucks on Gumtree
    The man without a signature.
  • Muscle750
    Muscle750 Posts: 1,075 Forumite
    Not got any with your bank acct? Or just ring round a few places
  • gardner1
    gardner1 Posts: 3,154 Forumite
    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]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    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.
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