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Yes, I know it is from the DM, but, if people resd when they buy, (or preferably before) would help a lot....

Personally have GF european rescue and recovery and onward travel for £59 from comparison website.

As I understand the story they thought recovery meant that they would be taken home?

Justjoined the AA after years with Autohome a local recovery service. They did well in Which and their agents seem to be able to do more than recover.

but the heavy pressure to buy more than the basic recovery and onward transport is not pleasant.

Understand that Brittania have noww been voted the No 1 by Which. They have a lot of Civil Servants and Health Service people on board who are less likelymaybe to abuse the system.

As a member of Which? I can confirm that in the last Which? report on car breakdown services (October 2013), the AA scored the highest (73%), and was one of two recommended providers - the second being SAGA (72%), who use the AA service. Another Which? report on car breakdown services isn't due til Sept/October 2014, and this will be extracted from Which? Car Survey 2014, which itself is not due to be published until July.

Scores were based on performance (arriving at the customer within one hour, and whether the vehicle was repaired at the roadside), and customer satisfaction.

Brittannia Rescue (67%) came 5th - behind Aviva, Gem and AutoAid, but ahead of the RAC and Green Flag.

As a former Civil Servant, I can also confirm that Brittania Rescue have never been owned by the Civil and Public Services Association - which is a union, and is now known as Public and Commercial Services union. For many years and since inception, Brittania Rescue was owned by the Civil Service Motoring Association, and was sold to LV in 2007.

Edited by Auristocrat on 02/05/2014 at 19:20

I'm pleased to recommend them. Regulars will know I'm not connected to them - just remarkably pleased that such an organization still provides the sort of cover they do - at that sort of price....amazing!

AUTOAID gets my vote too.

Same people as Autonational Rescue, Avant, which is a more conventional cover rather than the pay and claim that is AutoAid. Auto Aid is OK provided you have the means to pay the recovery agent straight away (ie a credit available) and am happy to wait a few days to receive your money back. You can arrange your own recoverer or allow them to send theirs - your choice. My first experience with them was in 1984 when my first brand new car, a Mk1 Golf Formel E (remember them?) came detached from it's gear stick...literally. Since then I've used them to pull me from a 3 feet deep ford (yes, silly me) and there must have been other occasions but I can't bring them to mind at the moment but I've always had my outlay reimbursed quickly. Main reason for basic but effective cover is to cover the possibility of recovery from a motorway or when some way away from home. £39.90p seems a reasonable price to pay given the hefty bill you'd get to be towed off the M3. I'm sure if I'd never paid for any breakdown cover I'd be better off...but I suppose that's the nature of insurance.