Can't drive after injury, How to get car recovered

mattyg · 1 Aug 2021 at 12:19

My Auntie has broken her foot whilst on holiday (this country) Anyone have any experience of how to get her car home.

Other than sending someone down to collect it. Is this something the AA would do?

Quartz · 1 Aug 2021 at 12:30

mattyg said:
Other than sending someone down to collect it.

There are car delivery services. We used one when my parents moved up here: they went by train (plane travel or 10 hours in a car with a passenger with dementia is not on). someone picked up their car and delivered it to their new house. Your aunt's only difficulty will be handing over the keys.

iamdjdz · 1 Aug 2021 at 13:29

Might get someone willing to do the drive on here for the cost of putting them on the insurance and return fare plus a few quid, otherwise car delivery is an option such as movingcars.co.uk (no affiliation so no idea what cost would be).

Josh · 1 Aug 2021 at 13:37

Local car transporters should be perfect, drive down in a flatbed, load the vehicle and return it.

skyripper · 1 Aug 2021 at 14:03

Dunno if shipley.com is still a thing, used it a few time over a decade ago to move a car across the country.

mattyg · 2 Aug 2021 at 19:52

Cheers guys. I've a mate with a flatbed is down that way next week delivering so will grab it for the return journey. Stroke of luck

adam cool dude · 2 Aug 2021 at 22:07

mattyg said:
Cheers guys. I've a mate with a flatbed is down that way next week delivering so will grab it for the return journey. Stroke of luck

Good to hear. When I had to take my car to a specialist 70 miles away I just rang the local companies. Top bloke did it for £160 which isn't a lot when it was a 4 hour return journey.

Cyber-Mav · 3 Aug 2021 at 09:35

This is where driving other cars clause comes in handy if you got fully comp policy on another car.
Just take a mate down with you who has this clause to drive car back for ya.
Id have done it for some KFC.