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[omega3000]

Have been with these for 2 years, used them once, no problem..this years premium was £28

http://www.rescuemycar.com/...works for me..

Excellent , £18 and half price mot 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Have been with these for 2 years, used them once, no problem..this years premium was £28

http://www.rescuemycar.com/...works for me..

Hmmm nice and cheap  ... Decisions decisions   

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Have been with these for 2 years, used them once, no problem..this years premium was £28

http://www.rescuemycar.com/...works for me..

Excellent , £18 and half price mot 

Wonder if you can take it to a garage of your choice for the MOT

[Vamps]

As far as I'm aware if you take the onward option then it's down to you to get it fixed for the return home.They'll not take you where you want to go and then come back and take you home[if that's what you mean?]Also I think if you breakdown[because of crank sensor say]and they fix it you have to allow a certain length of time to elapse before you can call them out to the same fault on the same vehicle.

Something like that... Say you broke down somewhere and they check the car "sorry we can't fix it at the roadside" do they then take your car home with yourself then get the onward travel car delivered to your home so you can carry on with your journey or does it work like this they bring the onward travel car to the breakdown location and the RAC van or whoever your with takes you're car home while you carry on with you're journey with the car they've provided you with  ?

Car......   You get in the truck mate, that is why they say , 'you and 4 members of your family' that's why they have the big cab's on the trucks......

[r1]

if you have a credit card google  GEM
been with them 10 years used them about 5 times always had the money back within a week
5 star service

[omega3000]

Cant remember what breakdown company i was with but i was 250 mile from home when the 3.0 elite went dead and boiled over and a big bang from under the car  Breakdown came out and bloke said AYE its your head gasket  He took me to the local repair shop he knew and they quoted me £400 to fix it .
They gave me a hire car and i said i dont want it fixed so they put car on low loader and bought it back next day , turned out to be a shattered aux pulley and belt wrapped around and snapped .. £20 to fix it  Not £400 

[05omegav6]

Only downside to break down recovery is that they get a bit squiffy about accident recovery

Apparently, coolant loss resulting from folding the radiator around the back of a truck doesn't constitute mechanical failure

Still it was only £750 to get the car recovered from Preston Services to Sussex via Coventry

[Sir Tigger KC]

Have been with these for 2 years, used them once, no problem..this years premium was £28

http://www.rescuemycar.com/...works for me..

Yes this is who I'm with.    Paid about £40 for personal cover (any car) with national recovery!    The slight sting in the tail is that you have to pay a £40 excess if you call them out, so have your card at hand if you do..... 

I've used them once in the last 12 months when I had air getting into the fuel system on The Merc and stupidly left her parked facing uphill far from home in The Rhondda Valleys   

Anyway called them up and 20 minutes later a man in a van from the local garage was with me and he couldn't get her going, so within an hour the recovery truck came along and took me to their garage in Pontypridd where they fiddled a bit more and told me that I'd have to leave it with them ( "Probably needs a new injector pump mate... " ) I told them I had to be in Dorset that evening, so no problem they reloaded me onto the truck and took me home! 

The funny thing was that when we unloaded her, I parked her facing downwards on the steep hill out side the house, had my tea, went out and she started up!!!    I don't think she fancied the drive home!!! 

In summery a good and efficient service but be wary of the local garages as these things are a good earner for them, and the unscrupulous ones will pounce on you when you're far from home, confused and vulnerable..... 

[Nick W]

In summary a good and efficient service but be wary of the local garages as these things are a good earner for them, and the unscrupulous ones will pounce on you when you're far from home, confused and vulnerable..... 

More likely an absolute oppsing nightmare! We love bringing cars back to base for the mechanic to do a £1000 job at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon for £200. With no availability of any parts.
 It's much, much  easier to take the small profit from recovering you home, if your cheap and nasty 'recovery cover' will pay for it. Be very, very wary of the firms that will refuse to cover your recovery if you were offered a repair and declined it.

Being a recovery driver, you would have to pay me to cover my car with the cheaper firms. Stick with the bigger ones; AA, RAC, Green Flag or Britannia(if I were going to start from scratch that's who I'd choose). When your car has broken down at 03:00 on the motorway 250 miles from home you do not want to be arguing for the entire charge of your phone's battery with some cretin who has instructions not to approve anything. Hell, you don't want to be doing that AT ALL! Nor does the driver want to sit there whilst you do it.

Before you sign up to any of these, for Christ's sake read the bloody policy.

Rant off.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Fair point Nick, but my cheap and cheerful worked for me!    Unlike when I was a member of the RAC! 

[dbdb]

What I'd like to know is if I was ever to breakdown for a engine problem or similar it's unlikely they'd be able to fix at the roadside.. Now would they try and ship the car off to a garage to get fixed and give me a big bill or take the car wherever I want "Home" for example or is that the other way round take me and who ever may be with me to a location of my choice and the car gets taken away to a garage  .. I can't see them getting as big as they have for £79 a year for one person. Hope I'm wrong mind but I can't the the tought out my mind that there are hidden costs if things do go belly up  .. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid as per usual.

Not paranoid at all,  that's exactly the issue.  Used to be a time when breakdown companies would recover to your home if you wanted it, if they couldn't fix at roadside.  Check the small print now, mostly it is at their discretion/if it cannot be fixed at a local garge in a reasonable period of time/ or hotel accomodation at their choice.  So expect your car to be towed to the nearest rip off garage at emergency repair rates, no 'take it home so I can fix it myself/get a good mechanic'.

I looked at european cover for a week trip through france, wasn't worth if when you read how many get outs they had.  Plus they won't (can't) recover you from a French payage motorway anyway.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

In summary a good and efficient service but be wary of the local garages as these things are a good earner for them, and the unscrupulous ones will pounce on you when you're far from home, confused and vulnerable..... 

More likely an absolute oppsing nightmare! We love bringing cars back to base for the mechanic to do a £1000 job at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon for £200. With no availability of any parts.
 It's much, much  easier to take the small profit from recovering you home, if your cheap and nasty 'recovery cover' will pay for it. Be very, very wary of the firms that will refuse to cover your recovery if you were offered a repair and declined it.

Being a recovery driver, you would have to pay me to cover my car with the cheaper firms. Stick with the bigger ones; AA, RAC, Green Flag or Britannia(if I were going to start from scratch that's who I'd choose). When your car has broken down at 03:00 on the motorway 250 miles from home you do not want to be arguing for the entire charge of your phone's battery with some cretin who has instructions not to approve anything. Hell, you don't want to be doing that AT ALL! Nor does the driver want to sit there whilst you do it.

Before you sign up to any of these, for Christ's sake read the bloody policy.

Rant off.

Well said  ...Probably best (as you said) to stick to bigger named firms if anything did go wrong...

[MR MISTER]

I pay green flag £21 a year for roadside repair or recovery home.

Wrong! Just checked....local recovery only.

[Nick W]

I pay green flag £21 a year for roadside repair or recovery home.

Wrong! Just checked....local recovery only.

I meet people like you all the time! Local recovery is 15miles, barely across town.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

I pay green flag £21 a year for roadside repair or recovery home.

Wrong! Just checked....local recovery only.

I meet people like you all the time! Local recovery is 15miles, barely across town.

Might as well not have it if it only goes as far as 15 miles