£150 For 2 Miles

[BBS-LM]

You could say I am having a bad day, My car jammed up on me going onto a roundabout, it's like I stepped on the bloody brake peddle, there I am, no where to go, cannot move back or forward, gearbox is working, clutch seam's fine, turns out my lower control arm has given up the ghost and the wheel has somehow jammed in the wheel arch, first for me to.

After about 3-min of the locals abusing me to get the fk off the roundabout 2 bloke helped me push the car out the way and let the traffic get on it's way, if you are on PH, thanks lads. Phoned the AA, no luck sir your membership has run out, £150 for a 2 mile ride to my house and the lowest member ship deal is all I got for my money. Not a good day.

[BBS-LM]

BIANCO said:

At least it happened when you where going slow and not at 90mph on the motorway that would have cost more than £150.

That is true.

[*Al*]

Sounds like a bad day for you , not really bad luck that your AA membership has expired, just bad planning. Oh well, better check my renewal date!

[calibrax]

*Al* said:

Sounds like a bad day for you , not really bad luck that your AA membership has expired, just bad planning. Oh well, better check my renewal date!

Continuous membership is the way to go, pay monthly, it just rolls on and never expires. Their 'Breakdown Repair Cover' is fantastic too - you can claim the first £500 of any breakdown repair (less £25 excess), up to 6 claims a year. And it's only about £6.99 a month. They pay promptly too and don't quibble. Just got sent £475 from them towards my engine replacement.

[ioksane]

How much did the AA chrge you?

[ioksane]

For the membership i mean and what do you get for that membership?

[Simond S]

Is it called "Parts and Garage cover".

if so i have a quote for £151 for

Roadside assistance Help in an accident National recovery Parts & garage cover for 1 car
Vehicle cover
£151.23
for the year

Or £15.17 monthly on the DB9!

[mk1salami]

Is that right? I can't see the £6.99 cover anywhere on their website. The cheapest I can see that cover is £15 a month.

[calibrax]

Price depends on what other services you take.

Go here...

http://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/uk-breakdown/...

Select the first four options and it costs £9.95 per month. Add the 5th option (parts & garage cover, a.k.a. breakdown repair cover), it goes up to £15.63 monthly, so that's £5.68 for the cover.

[davepoth]

BBS-LM said:

BIANCO said:

At least it happened when you where going slow and not at 90mph on the motorway that would have cost more than £150.

That is true.

Very true. That could have been a very frightening crash at speed.

[sday12]

I have the best cover IMHO.


None,

Cost for 15 years: £0

Cost if I ever need it: £150 apparently

[Globs]

sday12 said:

I have the best cover IMHO.

None,

Cost for 15 years: £0

Cost if I ever need it: £150 apparently

I think you may onto something there..
I have the same plan, worked out pretty well so far

[PaulG40]

I had AA cover once. Until I had an accident and they didn't want to know. I ended up getting ripped off for local recovery (arranged by the traffic copper), pickup and taken 7miles to their depot where it had to stay for 24hours dont know why) = £270! I then had to arrange another recovery firm to collectt he car and take it home 30mile round trip, costing just £65!

Suffice to say, Im now with the RAC, will never touch the AA again.

[shouldbworking]

PaulG40 said:

I had AA cover once. Until I had an accident and they didn't want to know. I ended up getting ripped off for local recovery (arranged by the traffic copper), pickup and taken 7miles to their depot where it had to stay for 24hours dont know why) = £270! I then had to arrange another recovery firm to collectt he car and take it home 30mile round trip, costing just £65!

Suffice to say, Im now with the RAC, will never touch the AA again.

RAC aren't any good either. Oh, your motorbike has broken down eh? and its -4 outside, and you're in the middle of nowhere.. well... we should be able to get someone to you in... 4 hours.

Hypothermia seemed less than appealing so I kept warm by spending the time pushing the bike home.

[Jasandjules]

BBS-LM said:

You could say I am having a bad day, My car jammed up on me going onto a roundabout, it's like I stepped on the bloody brake peddle, there I am, no where to go, cannot move back or forward, gearbox is working, clutch seam's fine, turns out my lower control arm has given up the ghost and the wheel has somehow jammed in the wheel arch, first for me to.

It could have happened six feet in front of an Arctic pulling onto the roundabout.

Any breakdown you walk away from is a "good" one.

[entwisi]

TBH if you need an actual recovery round manchester/liverpool the "vendor" has little to do with service as they all use the same subcontractors so it doesn't matter if you are in AA/RAC/Green Flag etc you will be picked up by either FAM or the other one from Macclesfield who's name escapes my right at this second (Yellow paint job on the trucks).

Personally I have breakdown through my bank account ( Barclays ) 15/month gives me personal cover including overseas, travel insurance, will writing, mobile phone insurance plus other benefits(Actually 15 quid is the normal price, as staff I get it half price so its an even better bargain! ).

[Yodafone]

BBS-LM said:

You could say I am having a bad day, My car jammed up on me going onto a roundabout, it's like I stepped on the bloody brake peddle, there I am, no where to go, cannot move back or forward, gearbox is working, clutch seam's fine, turns out my lower control arm has given up the ghost and the wheel has somehow jammed in the wheel arch, first for me to.

After about 3-min of the locals abusing me to get the fk off the roundabout 2 bloke helped me push the car out the way and let the traffic get on it's way, if you are on PH, thanks lads. Phoned the AA, no luck sir your membership has run out, £150 for a 2 mile ride to my house and the lowest member ship deal is all I got for my money. Not a good day.

I don't understand why people give abuse when you brokendown, I had that once on a comapany Vectra kept stalling and would only stay alive if I rev'ed it to about 3 to 4k. I got so many evil looks from people dispite them seeing that it was stalling all the time.

Another time was in pool car (Prius), which had 2 parking brakes, one on the floow and electronic, I forgot I had to press the brake to release electronic one so I could not work out why it would not move, so hazards on but everyone decides to beep at me and give abuse.

I got to admit it was my fault forgeting but was first time in the car and with elctronic parking brake.

Edited by Yodafone on Thursday 10th February 08:43

[megamaniac]

PaulG40 said:

I had AA cover once. Until I had an accident and they didn't want to know. I ended up getting ripped off for local recovery (arranged by the traffic copper), pickup and taken 7miles to their depot where it had to stay for 24hours dont know why) = £270! I then had to arrange another recovery firm to collectt he car and take it home 30mile round trip, costing just £65!

Suffice to say, Im now with the RAC, will never touch the AA again.

This happened to one of my friends as well,traffic queue crash in norfolk had to pay recovery back to bristol.
One of my customers forgot to change the details of her car with the AA (lupo to saxo) and when she broke down they charged her £50 to look at it ,even though her cover still had 6 months to run.Robbing barstewards.

[Silver940]

PaulG40 said:

I had AA cover once. Until I had an accident and they didn't want to know. I ended up getting ripped off for local recovery (arranged by the traffic copper), pickup and taken 7miles to their depot where it had to stay for 24hours dont know why) = £270! I then had to arrange another recovery firm to collectt he car and take it home 30mile round trip, costing just £65!

Suffice to say, Im now with the RAC, will never touch the AA again.

Same reason I am with the RAC not the AA. AA do breakdowns not accident recovery, they expect your insurance to deal with that.

[lost in espace]

Globs said:

I think you may onto something there..
I have the same plan, worked out pretty well so far

May I suggest autoaid, full recovery anywhere in the Uk = £38.