European Road Assistance

[tooFATtoDRIVE]

Hi there,
I need to ask for advice. I am off for a long euro trip, therefore, I am currently on the market for a road assistance for my 03 Mercedes AMG E55 (currently approx 103500 miles).
It has to get the following:

• Full road assistance, not just the breakdown cover;
• No callout limits;
• No car age limit;
• To cover tolls/ferries;
• it must work outside my home, not whatever distance from it;
• It has cover towing my car if I caused an accident or participated in one back to my home address in London;
• The replacement car must be of equal quality/value/etc; and
• It has to cover the entire Europe.

I know that to cover all the above it might a tall order, but I need have three weeks to buy one so all you comments, personal experience, suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Fleckers]

i use the AA

[Happy82]

Not much help, but read the small print as if your car is under a certain value they will not return it to the UK (I think it was if the car cost less than the cost to recover it back to the UK)

I think that policy was with the AA

[butch_]

The ADAC plus membership covers Europe. They have pretty good reviews on here, I've been a member for a few years now, but fortunately haven't had to use them (touch wood).

http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/

The English page doesn't have many details, but they're helpful over the phone / email.

[gtidriver]

Try the aa via eurotunnel was half the price of the aa website. £87 for a year I think,it was that's on my panda 100hp.

[tooFATtoDRIVE]

butch_ said:

The ADAC plus membership covers Europe. They have pretty good reviews on here, I've been a member for a few years now, but fortunately haven't had to use them (touch wood).

http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/

The English page doesn't have many details, but they're helpful over the phone / email.

Do you happen to have a conact email address to ADAC?

How would this road assistance work in the UK where I spent 95% of my driving time?

[Ade07]

ADAC use the AA in the UK. Used them over the years and cannot fault them, great company.

[Fox-]

tooFATtoDRIVE said:

Hi there,
I need to ask for advice. I am off for a long euro trip, therefore, I am currently on the market for a road assistance for my 03 Mercedes AMG E55 (currently approx 103500 miles).
It has to get the following:

• Full road assistance, not just the breakdown cover;
• No callout limits;
• No car age limit;
• To cover tolls/ferries;
• it must work outside my home, not whatever distance from it;
• It has cover towing my car if I caused an accident or participated in one back to my home address in London;
• The replacement car must be of equal quality/value/etc; and
• It has to cover the entire Europe.

I know that to cover all the above it might a tall order, but I need have three weeks to buy one so all you comments, personal experience, suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I had almost the same requirements and found that ADAC came close to meeting them all. My 530i is a similar age to your E55 but as it's a 530i I was worried that people like the AA would decide it was worth less than the cost of recovering it so it was important to me that I found somebody who wouldn't screw me over like this - ADAC seem to fit the bill.

No idea if the replacement car is of equal quality/value, I'd imagine no breakdown company is going to rent you another E55 AMG or similar. You'll get a Golf diesel or something.

I do wonder what they do if if breaks down, though. How do they decide if its repairable or not? I wouldnt want my car taken to any old random garage who may or may not be familiar with the car - I'd imagine this applies doubly so in the case of your E55 AMG.

[Stu R]

ADAC are the bees knees.

[tooFATtoDRIVE]

Ok people, who has a phone number or an email address to them then?

[butch_]

tooFATtoDRIVE said:

Ok people, who has a phone number or an email address to them then?

[e-mail]

[tooFATtoDRIVE]

butch_ said:

tooFATtoDRIVE said:

Ok people, who has a phone number or an email address to them then?

[e-mail]

Many thanks, I sent them an email earlier today. Let's see what they say.

[tooFATtoDRIVE]

Ok, this is what I received from ADAC:





Butch , Fox- and other using ADAC: is this what you have as well?