Breakdown service

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Fri 13 May 2005 19:01
Breakdown service - Citroënian {P}
Hi all,

I'm just about to get the Mini and have sorted out the classic insurance (thanks to a useful thread on here!).

Now need to organise breakdown cover, but I notice that most of them now have different terms on the "relay" type product -

If we can't fix your car at the roadside we'll take you to a garage. If they can't fix it by the end of the day, THEN we'll take you to your destination

Not much good to me, looks like a very wasted day.

Does anyone know of a service that will try at the roadside, failing that will get you & the car to your destination? Green Flag, The AA and RAC all seem to work in the same way now.

Oh, and I don't want to have to pay shed loads for the cover.

Thanks,
Lee

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Fri 13 May 2005 19:11
Breakdown service - bimmer-driver
Didn't the AA run adverts saying that if they can't mend your car by the roadside that they'll lend you a Smart Fourtwo while yours is being mended? Sounds like a good deal to me.
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Fri 13 May 2005 19:28
Breakdown service - Badger
Over the years, I've used AA Relay on two or three occasions. In every case the patrolman has made the decision, based solely on his own judgment, and we have been taken home -- or the car has been taken home and I've been sent on my way with a free hire car. No garage ever came into it.
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Fri 13 May 2005 20:04
Breakdown service - frazerjp
>Didn't the AA run adverts saying that if they can't mend your car by the roadside that they'll lend you a Smart Fourtwo while yours is being mended? Sounds like a good deal to me.

Have you ever read the small print at the bottom of the screen during that advert? I think it said only during the week or something?
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Fri 13 May 2005 21:22
Breakdown service - Doc
>>
Does anyone know of a service that will try at the
roadside, failing that will get you & the car to your
destination?


Yes, GEM Recovery.

See: www.motoringassist.com/breakdown-cover/reclaim.asp



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Fri 13 May 2005 21:53
Breakdown service - Badger
AA Relay. Or back home. Relay Plus (or whatever they call it now) enables the car to go home -- best place for it -- and you to your destination.
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Sat 14 May 2005 13:13
Breakdown service - Citroënian {P}
Thanks all,

I'll re-read the AA stuff, they would be my first choice tbh but the description of the relay was as in my message.

Will check out GEM too, and let y'all know what I choose.


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Sat 14 May 2005 13:20
Breakdown service - Bromptonaut
Never read the small print, but whenever I've used Direct Line (former Green Flag/NBRC) I've been taken straight home after, roadside assessment, with possibility of car going on to "my" garage.

Anybody got any experience of a breakdown outfit or its contractors insisting on the term Lee refers.
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Sat 14 May 2005 13:24
Breakdown service - catcher
If you're checking out GEM, try getting aquote through moneysupermarket.com - it's cheaper than going direct to GEM!
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Sat 14 May 2005 14:26
Breakdown service - Rishab C
I've always had the basic £29-£34 cover when on special offer, and found that the patrol men will do whatever they can to help you if you are nice to them. That is only roadside assistance or tow to nearest garage, but I have found they do much more than that. I have to say, it is now a fair few years since I have broken down, and maybe they are more strict now they use spy satellites etc...
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Sat 14 May 2005 14:37
Breakdown service - Stuartli
Green Flag uses local area breakdown specialists (or at least used to do when I was a member) and they are more likely to know the best places to deal with your car if, by any chance, they can't cure any problems.

These days I enjoy RAC Fleet cover but have never had to use its services.

Must be something to do with owning three Volkswagens over the last 13 years....:-))
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Wed 18 May 2005 02:38
Breakdown service - Citroënian {P}
In my haste to sort this out, I forgot that I already had AA cover for the now dead Clio. Rang the AA and they couldn't have been more helpful- they explained Relay as I understood it - fix it or get you home so have gone with them again.

Thanks to all for the advice, there wasn't much in it at the end, as I saved a few £s by already having some cover with them.

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Wed 18 May 2005 18:05
Breakdown service - GeorgeOrwell
I dunno why we bother . . . but glad you got it sorted.
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