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Your "local company" will be no good if you break down several hundred miles way will they and they are certainly no good to me living in the North Midlands. Their own site sates "We are ideally located near M11 / A11 / A12 / A406 within easy reach of East London and South Essex" and go on to say "If you require the services of a recovery vehicle, please phone anytime for a reasonable quote". They do not provide a service like the AA, RAC, Green Flag etc.

If you want reliable and cost effective break down cover look no further than Aviva rescue. We have a Joint Personal policy that cover myself and the wife whilst we are driving or passenger in any car for at home, rescue, recovery and onward travel.

The price for this, £59 a year.

The service is provided by the RAC who send exactly the same operatives/transport like they do to their own customers who are paying well over double the rates. When I called them out the last time, my car had broken a spring and was immobile, the attended within 30 mintes on a Friday teatime, sent the correct vehicle and took the car to my chosen garage. Previous that this we had called them out once before and they were equally as good.

Why risk these unknown companies who may not exist when you next need them or even operate in the area you break down in.

Edited by skidpan on 20/07/2015 at 14:55

I wish I had taken a gamble 40yrs ago and not bothered. I have paid around £90 per annum for ages and used it twice - once about 20yrs ago when an invisible/missed crack in the antiroll bar on an old Audi 2.0GL finally broke, and once on the same car shortly after my cheap replacement of a corroded patch of fuel line with a tube from a scrap washing machine succumbed to the high pressure! Both within a few miles of home. Mea culpa.

I have now cancelled it and just keep some emergency numbers to ring and will pay the full cost if I need it - most of these firms contract locally and I suspect even a call to the police would produce help pretty quickly if needed wherever one might be.

"How have you decided my post is spam?"

Sorry if I assumed wrongly. But when someone pops up with little previous history on this site and appears to be promoting a business, gives a link and doesn't even say anything along the lines of "I'm a satisfied customer only, I don't work for these people" some of us are suspicious - the freeloaders are frequent visitors here.

Edited by FP on 20/07/2015 at 15:29