European Roadside Recovery?

[Ojc]

Like most of you I'm planning a trip over to the Nurburgring, now I want some assurances that if my car breaks down I can get it back to the UK.

I already have AA Roadside Relay and just done a quick quote on their website for European recovery and they won't quote me. The car I'm planning on doing the trip in isn't worth a great deal (2.5k) and noticed that they offer vehicle recovery to the UK, up to the market value of the vehicle. Now seeing as the car is a 1992 Fiesta RS and obviously isn't going to be worth 2.5k in their eyes so what are the alternatives?

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[BigMansZetec]

Try the RAC, I know you already have the AA, but you can take out short-term cover just for that trip.

[ss64ii]

Just leave it there if it breaks down!!
No, try Green Flag.

[Terry Tibbs]

adac
is the best with euro wide cover including gb using aa as agent

see ben lovejoy's site for joining instructions

[cs174]

Contact A-Plan http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I'm sure Britannia cover including Europe is £65 regardless of the car.

[bmwdrivernigel]

Last year for my Spa/Ring/Krakow/Prague trip I took out the RAC single trip cover for my 540, well actually the car didnt make it to Prague as it decided to eat a couple of spark-plugs.

It cost around £80 and for that I had the car recovered to a BMW main dealer, the option of a taxi to Prague ( 700km, but jumped in with AngryS3 ) one nights hotel, and flight home with hire car here to get home. Once the car was fixed they picked me up in a Taxi from home to the airport, flight back to Krakow and taxi to BMW main dealer.

Cant beat that for service!

[aw51 121565]

I think all 'reasonably priced' euro breakdown cover only pays up to the value of the car. You can pay a lot more for 'all in regardless' breakdown cover - and it's a lot more!

But then there are the tales of cars worth a couple of hundred quid breaking down in southern europe then being repaired and repatriated while the owners drive a hire car home (all this costing several times the broken down car's value - and there are no reasons to doubt these stories in my view, not everyone can be a bullsh!tter can they???) thanks to one of these affordable euro breakdown policies...

I always reckon, with the low-value cars I take abroad, that the point of no return is a couple of hundred miles south or south east of the French channel coast. It adds a certain frisson to the journey - but then I also take a load of spares and only something fundamentally wrong with the mechanicals is gonna stop me and my car in our tracks .

I shouldn't worry .

[justlivyalife]

We took a Golf Mk2 1.3 to the Ring in Summer 06. it was worth £100. It ate the gearbox mount in the Alps afterwards and the RAC collected us and the car, and put us in a hotel for the night, while sending us on our way the following day on a train to Rome (our original destination). They paid for us to scrap the car as the repair was going to be £150 to £200 which we couldn't afford, and then paid for a plane home for the three of us - not bad!