Car Breakdown cover

Ask your insurer. I have breakdown cover included in my car insurance for a very small increase in cost. They will only transport the car home or on to my destination if they can't fix it quickly, but that's pretty standard. I've only used it once when they called out a local garage who fixed it - all very efficient, so haven't tested them to the full. Unlike AA or RAC, it's the car, not the driver that's covered. So no good if you're in someone else's car.

I need that any car cover side of things though.

Thanks

If you get a deal through your insurers, make sure you check exactly what you are getting, most included deals don't have take you home cover.

There are many different companies offering breakdown cover now, and with the exception of the AA* and RAC* they all use local garages rather than their own staff to provide the service. Simply go for the cheapest one, the service will be provided by the same garages anyway, so the level of service will be the same.

*With the AA, you have a 50/50 chance of being attended by a contractor, or by a AA patrol. *With the RAC, you have a 99% chance of having their own patrol attending for roadside repair, but if transport is needed it will be a contractor.

whats about now then.

AA

RAC

Green Flag

National Breakdown (They still going)

CRS

Mine does, from anywhere within Europe. It seems excellent value, though as I said, I haven't really put them to the test.

Have a look at

HTH.

Equity Red Star Call Assist Autohome Britannia Rescue Autonational rescue Churchill Assist GEM Tesco More Than Europ Assistance First Call Performance Direct Mondial

There's probably more.

I'm with Britannia and have had no problems when using them. If you're in Unison you can get a discount too. Let me know if you want to use them by removing "my nuts" from my email address as I'll get a £5 discount ;-)

Cheers Paul

If you dont mind paying at the time of breakdown the claiming it back you could try Autoaid who are backed by Boncaster insurance. It costs =A329.00 per year and you can ring them on 01277 720700 for details as they haven't got a web site. You can ring them for recovery or use a local garage pay, them buy credit card then get the money back. I personally haven't had to put them to the test but my friend who recomended them to me has and he was very impressed.

Trevor

Hi Borg,

Just left the RAC after 23 years and signed up with Britannia Rescue through my union Unison. I got a 20% discount for that and the cover consists of basically:

Home Call Rescue and Recovery Personal cover for my wife and self

All for the sum of £116 - (with the 20% discount)

Here's the link if you want to have a look:

Brian G

Try your bank.

Seriously.

Some of the 'premium' (aka. fee paying) bank accounts come with stuff like this.

Brand new customers only.............

Lol.

The message from snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) contains these words:

"Computer says no".

Cheapest I found was Autonational - £63 for full cover. Not had need to call 'em out but my dad has and they were fine.

MMM interesting. tried Euroquote but they wont cover my Trike so there out

Direct Line and Green Flag are the same company and wanted £120 but won't cover the Trike as it's older than 16 years.

RAC covers any vehicle for £77 but not Eire :( I go there quite a lot as it's nearer to me than England.

AutoAid seems to be a pain now looking at the forums. You pay the costs then you claim it back :( not happy about that so it looks like the RAC are the winners for me as they will cover my car, trike and trikavan.

Thanks

Holy cow! My insurance premium is only 130quid with Rescue and Recovery included.

They are good for the price but the OP wanted cover for the person and ANR only covers the car.

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