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roger_howes
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Breakdown Cover
« on: Oct 14th, 2005, 11:24am » |
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Hello all.
I'm with the AA at the moment. My cover includes Relay and Home Start. Trouble is, although the AA service is good, it's costing me an arm & a leg!
Has anyone got any experience between the different breakdown services or any price comparisons, as I'd be interested to hear them.
PS: I might not be able to respond to anyone before Monday as I am out for a lot of the weekend.
Thanks.
Roger.
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barrie
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #1 on: Oct 14th, 2005, 12:45pm » |
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Hi Roger
I have my car insured fully comp with Priviledge, I have the top breakdown cover included in the policy. If i breakdown anywhere in Europe they will try to fix my car, if they cant they will tow it to a garage and give me a hire car till mine is fixed. This cost me £75 as I received a £25 no call out discount last year on my breakdown cover.
But it doesnt real matter as there is not a lot they can do with a scorpio at the roadside
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Chad66
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #2 on: Oct 14th, 2005, 1:47pm » |
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I'm with Green Flag and been with them for about 12 years with 4 different cars....never had any trouble apart from once when the garage they sent out told me i needed a replacement distributor on a Ford Orion...turned out to be a stuck-on choke causing the rough running!!!
Green Flag use local garages to respond and I've got fully comp (which means they will deliver me & passengers to my destination and take the car away for repair) and home start for £83 per year.
HTH
I don't thinks that's bad value!
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wayne
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #3 on: Oct 14th, 2005, 6:16pm » |
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You may want to look at www.moneysavingexpert.com Scroll down to Latest money saving articles and there's an item on roadside assistance. The site as a whole is well worth a read!
HTH, Wayne.
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roger_howes
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #4 on: Oct 25th, 2005, 8:55am » |
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Hello all,
Sorry I have been a while acknowledging your replies, but I posted the question on Friday, went away for the weekend, and on Monday was called into the office at work and told I was being made redundant - there and then!
5 others were also made redundant - due to changes in the way the business is run. That makes the third set of redundancies in 3 years!
Needless to say, I spent last week just lookig for jobs. If I don't find something soon, the Scorp will have to go. I'm not a youngster any more and finding a job at my age is not going to be easy - especially at the salary I was getting.
Please wish me luck, as I am definitely going to need it!
Thanks.
Roger.
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Daven
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #5 on: Oct 25th, 2005, 12:44pm » |
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Hi Roger - sorry to hear that! Good luck with the hunt!
Dave
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nuttyscorp
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #6 on: Oct 25th, 2005, 8:25pm » |
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best of luck in job hunting!
Russ
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roger_howes
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Re: Breakdown Cover
« Reply #7 on: Oct 26th, 2005, 8:41am » |
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Many thanks.
I'll let you know how I get on. Give me a while, as I will be surprised if I get anything worthwhile quickly.
Roger.
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