10 mile car recovery - how much do you reckon it cost?

[TooMany2cvs]

andyalan10 said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Put the car onto wheeled dollies, and push it to somewhere the recovery vehicle can winch it onto the bed.

How easy it is to winch an Audi A8 with locked brakes on to a recovery truck????

Very.
http://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wh...

[Matt97]

I was quoted £100 to recover a car 2.5 miles, glad to say i didn't use that company in the end! The thing is you're not just being charged for the distance they recover the car but the distance/time it takes to get to you and recover the vehicle to it's destination.

[untakenname]

Years back I rolled my car and did a deal with the recovery company so they could have my car if they just got it off the road, was only a 106 and the recovery cost more than the car was worth.

After my car set alight at Goodwood last year I called the AA but they wouldn't dispatch as it's a racetrack and my car isn't standard (I'm tempted to claim back for the non existent cover I'd paid for) but luckily my girlfriend is with Nationwide and has a flexplus account which includes free breakdown cover so I got recovery back to a specialist (100 miles away) for free!

Well worth having imo, I've got an account with them as well now just in case I break down at a race circuit again.

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Just looked at the terms and conditions and it's actually European cover not just UK!

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[RedAlfa]

£250 sounds a little steep ... the RAC tried to charge me approx £220 to recover a lightly damaged vehicle (distance: 50 miles), so I thought bks to that .... and drove it home!

[imagineifyeswill]

Not Knowing whereabouts you are I cant be wholly accurate but will go with:

Callout Charge for recovery vehicle £120.00
Second man callout £50.00
Hire of skates to move vehicle to a position where it can be winched onto truck £60.00
Labour in moving vehicle to said position £60.00
Winching vehicle onto truck £75.00 for first hour with subsequent hours charged in 15 min increments
All miles travelled by both vehicles £1.20 per mile

If this was central London or suchlike you could probably at least double these charges, Im going by the North of Scotland and bearing in mind Ive been away from the recovery business for 8 years.

[MrBarry123]

£250.00?

[750turbo]

MrBarry123 said:

£250.00?

CHEAT!

[Plinth]

Riley Blue said:

I was going to give it an hour but as you're all so impatient I think I'll wait until tomorrow




















Oh all right then..... £250.

Did you remember to give them a tip?
Perhaps 10%?

[mmm-five]

£170 for the RAC to recover my Z4MC home (100 miles) - don't know how much it would have been as a non-member though.

£90 for a local recovery company to take my Alfa the 14 miles from Hunts Cross to Litherland.

[caelite]

BigLion said:

TimmyMallett said:

When i used to work for the RAC the standard contractor rate was 100 collection plus a pound a mile (charged as a round trip for the lorry, not point to point of the transport) Plus specialist equip costs (hiab, low loader, donor wheels if on bricks etc)

You'll need a hiab for that so it's got to be a few hundred.

Edited by TimmyMallett on Friday 24th March 15:41

Isn't that what Muslim women wear? Why would he need to cover his face?

Not sure if entirely serious but: A hiab is a particular brand of truck mounted crane, they are so common that the term Hiab is often used as a general term for a truck mounted crane (similar to Hoover/Jeep). You're thinking of a Hijab

Personally I would agree with Timmy, unless you don't mind potentially damaging the vehicle and Hiab would most likely be needed, I would say £150 would be a reasonable callout cost.

If the car is scrap, it would be possible to drag it on a winch and/or cut the brake lines to get it going.

[rallycross]

TooMany2cvs said:

Ridiculously high.

Put the car onto wheeled dollies, and push it to somewhere the recovery vehicle can winch it onto the bed.

Perhaps more importantly, how much did they quote beforehand?

Correct, and if this did not happen then the poor chap was ripped off.

[wack]

C.A.R. said:

Saw a bloke driving towards Barnet after a smash on the M25 in his BMW 3-series yesterday. Front end totally stoved in, bonnet crumpled etc.

I wish I'd done similar when my 306 GTi decided to try and kill me on the way to work 6 years ago. The recovery cost me £190 for just a few miles

I watched 2 guys drive a car down a sliproad onto the M62 with no front wings, bonnet , lights , grille , no front end at all really

Close to the bottom they saw the cop car parked on the hard shoulder about 1/4 m away and started reversing , too late , cop starts backing up

What kind of a moron would drive on a motorway with no front end

[MrBarry123]

750turbo said:

MrBarry123 said:

£250.00?

CHEAT!