Breakdown cover for older cars

[mgsontour]

Hi

As above I'm looking for breakdown cover as the AA have put a good chunk on my renewal price

Thanks in advance lads

[Gordon Hill]

Get it with your insurance job done.

[Twolane]

I also got ticked off with the AAs renewal price and left them last year.
Joined this lot on recommendation from a motorcycle forum I'm on.
Not had to use them so can't say if they would be any better than the AA.

https://www.motoringassist.com/

[sjc]

Gordon Hill said:

Get it with your insurance job done.

That generally only covers you in the insured car though,not you in any car ?

[anonymous-user]

Can you get it via Bank Account?
I’m with Barclays, £14.50 a month for RAC & Travel Insurance
Can’t see any mention of cars age in the full T&Cs

[Rich1973]

Define older.
I have 2 cars covered with auto aid-10 year old and 29 year old. Only requirement is to pay first £25 of any call out due to the age.
The 10year old was recovered from my drive to a garage 30 miles away and it cost £25 a month ago.

[mgsontour]

Rich1973 said:

Define older.
I have 2 cars covered with auto aid-10 year old and 29 year old. Only requirement is to pay first £25 of any call out due to the age.
The 10year old was recovered from my drive to a garage 30 miles away and it cost £25 a month ago.

21 years old

[Bluevanman]

I took out personal cover with the AA so covered for any car I'm in
My cars are 22 and 42 yrs old respectively

[u6dw4]

James6112 said:

Can you get it via Bank Account?
I’m with Barclays, £14.50 a month for RAC & Travel Insurance
Can’t see any mention of cars age in the full T&Cs

174 a year? I pay around 70* through my car insurance. RAC were about 135 a year before that. Some provide inclusive through their bank but it only covers to nearest garage.

• which is usually AA but is random.

[anonymous-user]

u6dw4 said:

James6112 said:

Can you get it via Bank Account?
I’m with Barclays, £14.50 a month for RAC & Travel Insurance
Can’t see any mention of cars age in the full T&Cs

174 a year? I pay around 70* through my car insurance. RAC were about 135 a year before that. Some provide inclusive through their bank but it only covers to nearest garage.

• which is usually AA but is random.

Covers all holidays also, not too bad!

[Gordon Hill]

sjc said:

Gordon Hill said:

Get it with your insurance job done.

That generally only covers you in the insured car though,not you in any car ?

Didn't specify that in the original post.

[Tye Green]

be aware that breakdown recovery cover is st these days and you're usually better off identifying the recovery companies in the area you're heading to and putting their numbers in your phone. that way you can call them direct if you need help.

[donkmeister]

I pay about £150pa to add UK and European breakdown to the insurance on our family bus (a 16 year old Lexus LS460, so a big, heavy complicated and relatively rare old thing with so much to go wrong). That's through LVs recovery company (Britannia IIRC) which got good reviews and industry scores when I first took it out a couple of years ago.

Can't cancel it now as that will initiate my car's self destruct sequence.

[alscar]

Have you tried to haggle with the AA ?
They like to try it on at each renewal and usually a polite phone call is worth it.
Funnily enough it was mentioned on that Martin Lewis programme last night and either with AA or RAC there is a 80%+ chance of getting the price reduced.

[Dan_The_Man]

£63 a year personal cover with Auto Aid, add a tenner for a partner. Skoda clutch went a few weeks ago and Auto Aid sent a National Rescue recovery truck and took it straight to the garage, very quick and no messing.

[interstellar]

Dan_The_Man said:

£63 a year personal cover with Auto Aid, add a tenner for a partner. Skoda clutch went a few weeks ago and Auto Aid sent a National Rescue recovery truck and took it straight to the garage, very quick and no messing.

This!!

Money saving expert endorse them. I have had them for years, called out 3 times. All good and cheap.

[Triumph Man]

I get it with my Nationwide Flexplus account - £12 a month for the account, including breakdown, travel insurance, and mobile phone cover. They've attended to my old BMW (last time it was needed it was 22 years old). The only caveat as I can see is they don't recover for the same fault twice.

[markymarkthree]

Auto-aid cover me & Mrs Marky in my 52 year old Cortina, modern bike, 15 year old van, 8 year old car. All for the princely sum of less than £70.

[Bluevanman]

Start rescue are another option, only had need to call them out once but it went smoothly

[boyse7en]

My 2004 Saab is covered by the AA (cost me about £80 for the year) and I had no extras to pay or anything when the nice man, very very nice man, came out and thumped my car with a big hammer when the fuel pump had a hissy fit in a Tesco car park.

I didn't have any idea that the AA had limits on its coverage for age