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Best Breakdown cover?
« on: 19 April 2010, 13:25:21 »
Hi All,

I'm considering getting breakdown cover and have had a quote from Greenflag for £75 for Recovery, and The AA is £69 for Relay....

I'm leaning toward Greenflag as they use local garages and refuse to use the RAC as they were rubbish when I was a member a few years ago...

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are and if anyone has any advice?

Cheers  :y :y :y
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #1 on: 19 April 2010, 13:27:07 »
I'm with AA (joint policy for me and the old bag, in any car (my car is too old for a car policy)), £91 relay.

No idea how good they are, never used them.


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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #2 on: 19 April 2010, 13:28:48 »
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Hi All,

I'm considering getting breakdown cover and have had a quote from Greenflag for £75 for Recovery, and The AA is £69 for Relay....

I'm leaning toward Greenflag as they use local garages and refuse to use the RAC as they were rubbish when I was a member a few years ago...

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are and if anyone has any advice?

Cheers  :y :y :y


hope that includes full European breakdown cover!

I pay £70 a year with German based ADAC (German version of AA)

Call AA in this country, but if i am in any European country i ring them, and fully covered. When with RAC i had stupid quotes of triple my annual payment for a weeks cover!
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #3 on: 19 April 2010, 13:33:45 »
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Hi All,

I'm considering getting breakdown cover and have had a quote from Greenflag for £75 for Recovery, and The AA is £69 for Relay....

I'm leaning toward Greenflag as they use local garages and refuse to use the RAC as they were rubbish when I was a member a few years ago...

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are and if anyone has any advice?

Cheers  :y :y :y


hope that includes full European breakdown cover!

I pay £70 a year with German based ADAC (German version of AA)

Call AA in this country, but if i am in any European country i ring them, and fully covered. When with RAC i had stupid quotes of triple my annual payment for a weeks cover!
Is that just recovery to nearest agent, or recovery to any destination, including repatriation if necessary?
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« Reply #4 on: 19 April 2010, 13:42:24 »
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Hi All,

I'm considering getting breakdown cover and have had a quote from Greenflag for £75 for Recovery, and The AA is £69 for Relay....

I'm leaning toward Greenflag as they use local garages and refuse to use the RAC as they were rubbish when I was a member a few years ago...

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are and if anyone has any advice?

Cheers  :y :y :y


hope that includes full European breakdown cover!

I pay £70 a year with German based ADAC (German version of AA)

Call AA in this country, but if i am in any European country i ring them, and fully covered. When with RAC i had stupid quotes of triple my annual payment for a weeks cover!
Is that just recovery to nearest agent, or recovery to any destination, including repatriation if necessary?


Full details here via translation (i have the plus membership)

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adac.de%2Fmitgliedschaft%2Ftarife%2Fstandardtarife%2FInfos_ADAC_Plus_Mitgliedschaft.aspx%3FComponentId%3D7663%26SourcePageId%3D10022&sl=de&tl=en

Basically its towed to a garage, if its not repairable within 3 days, they ship it back home covering all costs. They even cover hotels while your car is being fixed  :o
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #5 on: 19 April 2010, 15:16:06 »
i use aa  and have done since 97 cost £11 a month and have used them about 3 times mainly for relay.Dont use RAC their crap.
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« Reply #6 on: 19 April 2010, 15:24:36 »
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i use aa  and have done since 97 cost £11 a month and have used them about 3 times mainly for relay.Dont use RAC their crap.
Ouch!

I pay £91 for joint cover, with relay.
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #7 on: 19 April 2010, 15:37:43 »
Green Flag Mayday here through the Caravan Club.

Both vehicles covered for 130 quid :y

RAC jacked-up their quote massively >:(
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« Reply #8 on: 19 April 2010, 15:55:33 »
Or for one-off tows, that young Jedi provides a quality towing service, although the 'customer entertainment' music is a bit 1980s Stock, Aitken and Waterman style....
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« Reply #9 on: 19 April 2010, 16:01:00 »
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i use aa  and have done since 97 cost £11 a month and have used them about 3 times mainly for relay.Dont use RAC their crap.
Ouch!

I pay £91 for joint cover, with relay.

I also have my daughter on this
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #10 on: 19 April 2010, 16:19:47 »
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Or for one-off tows, that young Jedi provides a quality towing service, although the 'customer entertainment' music is a bit 1980s Stock, Aitken and Waterman style....

I was surprised to see you get into Darth with him when you had a quiet silver bullet to ride in.  ;D

Kevin
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Or for one-off tows, that young Jedi provides a quality towing service, although the 'customer entertainment' music is a bit 1980s Stock, Aitken and Waterman style....

I was surprised to see you get into Darth with him when you had a quiet silver bullet to ride in.  ;D

Kevin
He wouldn't let me get in to Silver Bullet.  I think he was afraid I would overtake him ::)
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #12 on: 19 April 2010, 17:20:50 »
  :y:ythe AA £150.00 relay/roadside/home start and mechanical breakdown warranty x5 claims per year up to £500 per claim . you only pay the first £25 towards any repair costs

used it on my jag for a faulty airflow meter/lambada total bill £485 . but AA paid £460  well worth it
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #13 on: 19 April 2010, 18:12:47 »
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Hi All,

I'm considering getting breakdown cover and have had a quote from Greenflag for £75 for Recovery, and The AA is £69 for Relay....

I'm leaning toward Greenflag as they use local garages and refuse to use the RAC as they were rubbish when I was a member a few years ago...

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are and if anyone has any advice?

Cheers  :y :y :y


hope that includes full European breakdown cover!

I pay £70 a year with German based ADAC (German version of AA)
Call AA in this country, but if i am in any European country i ring them, and fully covered. When with RAC i had stupid quotes of triple my annual payment for a weeks cover!
Tunnie how do you pay for this cover and what address to you use??
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Re: Best Breakdown cover?
« Reply #14 on: 19 April 2010, 18:52:26 »
Yes, thats interesting Tunnie, how'd you do that? Do you have a Deutchland address Mine Herr?? ;D ;D ;D
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