I've called the AA out twice.. Both times they've sorted it at the side of the road. Once for a flat battery on my old Focus, the second time for when the air intake had popped off of the engine after it had been in the Seat garage for a new manifold.
82% of breakdowns fixed at the road side ?
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Why bother when some guy will do it for you whilst you sit in your nice warm dry car
You must be on first name terms with most of them now
most.. but didn't know this one, which made even more awkward when he came out to me
Why bother when some guy will do it for you whilst you sit in your nice warm dry car
because it's quicker, and being at home is better than sitting at the roadside in your car!
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As I have said before my Vauxhall Astra is superior to all other cars and has never broken down so I have never needed any of these services. 
(My Desk is a massive piece of wood )
What they don't tell you is 83% of breakdowns are for flat tyres.
(My Desk is a massive piece of wood )
What they don't tell you is 83% of breakdowns are for flat tyres.
I'm with the RAC (via Skoda Assist).
So far I've not had to call them.
My Skoda Assist ran out in January this year, however I renewed that for a further 2yrs for £149.
So that's around £75 per year for full European coverage which I think is a good price.
Might never need them - it's just like accidental damage cover.
If you never need them that's £150 wasted.
If I do then I expect I'll make on the deal.
So far I've not had to call them.
My Skoda Assist ran out in January this year, however I renewed that for a further 2yrs for £149.
So that's around £75 per year for full European coverage which I think is a good price.
Might never need them - it's just like accidental damage cover.
If you never need them that's £150 wasted.
If I do then I expect I'll make on the deal.
It's nowhere near that high (assuming we're still talking about RAC/AA breakdown stats).
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But how much actually are the simple things like needing a tyre changed, or topping up petrol? If we know those statistics too, it becomes a lot more meaningful to people like us on a motors forum who know a lot more about cars than Lucy and Nigel and actually know how to do something incredibly basic like change a flat (or top up at a fuel station )? There's no point getting basic cover which doesn't include towing if you can fix anything they can fix, at the roadside.
My CV gaiter gave up the ghost a few months ago (not how I was expecting it to fail, incidentally) when I was 20 miles from home. It took them an hour to decide I would need towing, and was then going to take another two hours to get to me to tow me, and that was then going to be too far away from home because it was RAC's cheapest policy (got it for about a tenner with Tesco, last time I do that!) so would cost about £80 to be towed. It only costs £50 for an entire new CV joint, so I thought blow that, and topped it up with CV grease stopping for a regrease every couple of miles, driving slowly. Had I considered what they'd fix and what I could fix at the roadside, I probably wouldn't have bothered with cover, and I certainly won't now I've established how long it takes them to turn up. And I was a 'priority' customer because it was a main road (in a layby).
)? There's no point getting basic cover which doesn't include towing if you can fix anything they can fix, at the roadside.My CV gaiter gave up the ghost a few months ago (not how I was expecting it to fail, incidentally) when I was 20 miles from home. It took them an hour to decide I would need towing, and was then going to take another two hours to get to me to tow me, and that was then going to be too far away from home because it was RAC's cheapest policy (got it for about a tenner with Tesco, last time I do that!) so would cost about £80 to be towed. It only costs £50 for an entire new CV joint, so I thought blow that, and topped it up with CV grease stopping for a regrease every couple of miles, driving slowly. Had I considered what they'd fix and what I could fix at the roadside, I probably wouldn't have bothered with cover, and I certainly won't now I've established how long it takes them to turn up. And I was a 'priority' customer because it was a main road (in a layby).